159164684 | abjure | to render under oath, to repudiate, to give up | |
159164685 | abrogate | to abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority | |
159164686 | abstemious | sparingly used or consumed, restricted to bear necessities | |
159164687 | acumen | quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight | |
159164688 | antebellum | belong to a period before a war, especially the American Civil War | |
159164689 | auspicious | attended by favorable circumstances, marked by prosperity or success | |
159164690 | belie | to misrepresent; to contradict | |
159164691 | bellicose | warlike in manner; having or showing a disposition to fight | |
159164692 | bowdlerize | to modify or omit parts considered offensive | |
159164693 | chicanery | deception by trickery or sophistry | |
159164694 | chromosome | a strand of DNA that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life | |
159164695 | churlish | surly, difficult to work with, intractable | |
159164696 | circumlocution | the use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language | |
159164697 | circumnavigate | to go around; circumvent | |
159164698 | deciduous | falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth | |
159164699 | deleterious | having a harmful effect | |
159164700 | diffident | marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy, timid | |
159164701 | enervate | to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of | |
159164702 | enfranchise | to endow with rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote | |
159164703 | epiphany | a sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something | |
159164704 | equinox | either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and a day and night are of equal length | |
159164705 | euro | the basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries | |
159164706 | evanescent | vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor | |
159164707 | expurgate | to remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material before publication | |
159164708 | facetious | given to wit and good humor; cleverly amusing in tone | |
159164709 | fatuous | vacuously, smugly and unconsciously foolish, delusive, unreal | |
159164710 | feckless | lacking purpose or vitality, feeble or ineffective, careless and irresponsible | |
159164711 | fiduciary | of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another | |
159164712 | filibuster | a tactic to delay or obstruct legislation by making long speeches | |
159164713 | gamete | a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes | |
159164714 | gauche | lacking social polish; tactless | |
159164715 | gerrymander | to divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections |
AP English Vocab
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