sly, clever | ||
marked by secrecy | ||
giving false appearance, insincere | ||
roundabout path, trickery, trick | ||
trick in war for deceiving enemy, cleverly contrived trick | ||
acting in a stealthy way | ||
watchful, be on guard | ||
crafty, cunning | ||
questionable, fraught with uncertainty or doubt | ||
formed or conceived by the imagination | ||
insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have | ||
an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | ||
intended to deceive | ||
relieve from stress/pain | ||
crazy house, place to keep special people | ||
bright, good outlook | ||
kind, GENEROUS | ||
friendly, kind | ||
to calm | ||
make something that's unusable into something usable | ||
authority approving something | ||
intense enthusiasm | ||
emotionally unrestrained; gushy | ||
conspicuously bad or offensive | ||
extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable | ||
wildly excited or active | ||
given freely; unearned; unwarranted; without apparent reason | ||
extra; unnecessary | ||
to make beautiful | ||
flowery in speech | ||
wealthy | ||
to furnish, excessively decorating | ||
excessive display, overly showy | ||
deeply affecting | ||
removed or disassociated from | ||
union of two or more groups | ||
difference or inequality in age, rank, degree | ||
submissive or like a servant | ||
subdued, kept down | ||
inactive, slothful, lazy | ||
without interesting qualities, boring | ||
spiritless, showing no interest, lacking energy | ||
sluggish inactivity | ||
twisted, complicated, complex, intricate | ||
hidden meaning, not recognized (difficult to comprehend) | ||
completely ineffective, pointless | ||
interfere with or to slow progress | ||
not clearly seen or understood, not well known, to conceal or indistinct | ||
state of perplexity or doubt | ||
assuming an air of superiority, descend to less formal level, treating people as inferior | ||
feeling lack of respect or act of despising (hatred) | ||
characteristic of ruler with absolute power | ||
relating to oppressive to or arrogantly overbearing towards others | ||
to look on with scorn, feeling of contempt for someone | ||
blatantly and disdainfully proud | ||
marked by arrogant assurance, like dictatorial | ||
treating haughtily or in condescending way | ||
a person with power to decide or dispute | ||
to give settled and often prejudiced outlook to | ||
to clear from alleged fault or guilt | ||
treating or affecting all equally | ||
not open to question | ||
trustworthiness | ||
equal, treating facts without personal feelings or prejudice | ||
to cause regret; person who repents of sin | ||
superficially fair, seemingly valid, but often specious; worthy of belief | ||
to give substance or form to; proved with evidence, verified | ||
to set free, establish the truth by freeing of blame | ||
the act of stating positively and often forcefully | ||
quality of being clear | ||
having power to compel or constrain | ||
logically ordered or integrated | ||
exhibiting state of sticking together | ||
designed or intended to teach | ||
capacity of orderly thought or procedure; argument | ||
discourse marked by persuasiveness | ||
to pronounce in firm manner | ||
changing readily; shifting | ||
suggest as naturally to be inferred or understood | ||
easily understood; completely comprehensible | ||
study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) | ||
unimportant | ||
on the surface (bruise on knee, heidi montag) | ||
shaky ex: the class's grasp on irony is tenuous | ||
minute, minor, unimportant | ||
hard working | ||
forceful,; urgently demanding attention | ||
painstaking effort, hard-working | ||
stubbornly persevering | ||
put up with; survive hardship | ||
courageous; fearless | ||
independent individual that does not go along with party | ||
stubborn, hard-hearted | ||
extreme resistance to change | ||
grow or increase rapidly | ||
state of being persistent | ||
capacity to live or develop | ||
open to several possible meanings; meaning isn't clear | ||
uncertain because can't make choice | ||
not interested, no emotion | ||
individual will without restriction | ||
led by whim; erratic; unpredictable | ||
use unclear expressions to mislead | ||
without interest, impartial | ||
sudden impulse, self-acting | ||
unpredictable, fanciful notions, erratic |
AP english vocab
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