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100 Words Every Junior AP English Student Should Know

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abjure   to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant  
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abrogate   to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal  
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abstemious   sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.  
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acumen   keen insight; shrewdness  
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antebellum   before or existing before a war  
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auspicious   promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable  
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belie   to show to be false; contradict  
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bellicose   inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious  
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bowdlerize   to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable  
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chicanery   trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry  
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chromosome   any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order  
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churlish   boorish; rude  
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circumnavigate   to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation  
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deciduous   shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs  
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deleterious   injurious to health  
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diffident   lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy  
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enervate   to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken  
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enfranchise   to grant a franchise to; admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting  
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enthymeme   a syllogism or other argument in which a premise or the conclusion is unexpressed  
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epiphany    
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equinox    
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euro    
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evanescent    
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expurgate    
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facetious    
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fatuous    
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feckless    
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fiduciary    
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filibuster    
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