10734993107 | Abasement | To reduce or lower | 0 | |
10734993108 | Abashed | Ashamed | 1 | |
10735018804 | Aberration | Departing from the ordinary | 2 | |
10735028386 | Abominable | loathsome | 3 | |
10735034541 | Abrogate | To formally abolish | 4 | |
10735045720 | Abscond | To depart secretly and suddenly | 5 | |
10735052661 | Abstruse | Hard to understand | 6 | |
10735068944 | Acquiesce | Consent | 7 | |
10735081358 | Acrimonious | Bitter in nature | 8 | |
10735111740 | Adroit | Ingenious | 9 | |
10828506416 | Advocate | A person who publicly supports a cause or policy | 10 | |
10828519067 | Affinity | A natural liking to someone or something | 11 | |
10828523592 | Aggrandizement | to increase the reputation of something | 12 | |
10828531797 | Altruistic | unselfish | 13 | |
10828536368 | Ameliorate | to make something bad better, improve | 14 | |
10936022358 | Amicable | friendly or peaceable | 15 | |
10936024611 | Amnesty | a general pardon for political or government offenses | 16 | |
10936025631 | Arbitrary | contingent solely upon one's discretion | 17 | |
10936030934 | Ardent | passionate or fervent | 18 | |
10936031590 | Articulate | uttered clearly in distinct syllables | 19 | |
11041360716 | Astute | shrewd | 20 | |
11041361915 | Audacious | fearless | 21 | |
11041361916 | Augment | to make larger | 22 | |
11041362744 | Banal | trite | 23 | |
11041364121 | Barren | unproductive | 24 | |
11102907542 | Bellicose | inclined or eager to fight | 25 | |
11102911128 | Belligerent | warlike or aggressively hostile | 26 | |
11102918791 | Berate | to scold | 27 | |
11102921735 | Blasphemy | imperious utterance or action concerning sacred things | 28 | |
11102937141 | Bombast | pretentious words | 29 | |
11247073796 | Boorish | crude | 30 | |
11247073797 | Brevity | briefness | 31 | |
11247075459 | Cacophony | dissonance | 32 | |
11247077971 | Cajole | to persuade by flattery | 33 | |
11247080943 | Calloused | unsympathetic | 34 | |
11349710545 | Capricious | erratic | 35 | |
11349716117 | Castigation | punishment | 36 | |
11349718109 | Clemency | an act or deed showing mercy or leniency | 37 | |
11349724128 | Cogent | relevant | 38 | |
11349725528 | Cognizant | having legal jurisdiction | 39 | |
11549962719 | Commensurate | Proportionate | 40 | |
11549962720 | Conciliatory | Reconciled | 41 | |
11549962721 | Congeniable | Agreeable | 42 | |
11549962722 | Contrite | Showing sincere remorse | 43 | |
11549962723 | Conundrum | A riddle | 44 | |
11662466388 | Corroborate | to confirm or give support | 45 | |
11662471097 | Credulity | a tendency to quickly believe that something is real or true | 46 | |
11662479421 | Cryptic | having a meaning that is obscure | 47 | |
11662485013 | Curtail | to reduce in extent or quantity | 48 | |
11662487811 | Debacle | a fiasco | 49 | |
12081253971 | Debonair | Having a sophisticated charm | 50 | |
12081253972 | Degenerate | To fall below a normal level in physical, mental, or moral qualities. | 51 | |
12081253973 | Deleterious | Harmful | 52 | |
12081253974 | Deluge | A great flood of water | 53 | |
12081253975 | Deplorable | Lamentable | 54 | |
12081253976 | Derision | Mockery | 55 | |
12081253977 | Derivative | Imitative of the work of another person | 56 | |
12081253978 | Despot | A ruler who holds absolute power | 57 | |
12081253979 | Destitute | Without the basic needs of life | 58 | |
12081253980 | Didactic | Intended to teach | 59 | |
12081253981 | Dilapidated | In a state of disrepair as a result of age or neglect | 60 | |
12081253982 | Dilettante | A person who cultivates an area of interest without real commitment or knowledge | 61 | |
12081253983 | Diminutive | Unusually small | 62 | |
12081253984 | Disingenuous | Not candid or sincere | 63 | |
12081253985 | Dissonance | Music- a harsh clash of sounds Literary- use of unusual and harsh sounding words in poetry | 64 | |
12328697798 | Dogmatic | inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true | 65 | |
12328701066 | Dubious | doubting | 66 | |
12328706708 | Ebullient | cheerful and full of energy | 67 | |
12328708750 | Eccentric | unconventional and slightly strange | 68 | |
12328711136 | Ecletic | deriving ideas, style, or taste from a diverse range of sources | 69 | |
12372215053 | Effervescent | vivacious and enthusiastic | 70 | |
12372219876 | Effrontery | insolent or impertinent behavior; elusive | 71 | |
12372230035 | Enervate | lacking in energy or life | 72 | |
12372232467 | Enigmatic | difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious | 73 | |
12372238910 | Ensconce | establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe, or secret place | 74 | |
12701630396 | Entailment | something that is inferred | 75 | |
12701630397 | Enunciation | the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | 76 | |
12701630398 | Ephemeral | Something that is fleeting or short-lived | 77 | |
12701630399 | Epitome | a standard or typical example | 78 | |
12701630400 | Eradicate | destroy completely | 79 | |
12884823197 | Esoteric | confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle | 80 | |
12884823198 | Ethereal | lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | 81 | |
12884823199 | Euphemism | an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh | 82 | |
12884823200 | Eviscrate | take away a vital or essential part of | 83 | |
12884823201 | Exorbitant | greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | 84 | |
12989449579 | Expedite | V. To process fast and efficiently | 85 | |
12989449580 | Extol | V. To praise, glorify | 86 | |
12989449581 | Facetious | Adj. cleverly in an amusing tone | 87 | |
12989449582 | Fallacious | Adj. Containing or based on fallacy | 88 | |
12989449583 | Fallow | Adj. undeveloped and potentially useful | 89 | |
13181905540 | Fastidious | adjective, giving careful attention to detail | 90 | |
13181905541 | Feign | Verb, make believe with the intent to decieve | 91 | |
13181905542 | Flagrant | Adjective, conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | 92 | |
13181905543 | Fortuitous | Adjective, occurring by happy chance | 93 | |
13181905544 | Futile | Adjective, producing no result or effect | 94 | |
13181905545 | Gossamer | Adjective, extremely light, delicate, or tenuous | 95 | |
13181905546 | Gravity | Noun, dignity or sobriety of bearing; a serious situation or problem | 96 | |
13181905547 | Gregarious | Adjective, fond of the company of others sociable | 97 | |
13181905548 | Guile | Noun, insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful | 98 | |
13181905549 | Habiliment | Noun, dress or attire | 99 | |
13278373789 | Hackneyed | (adj) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | 100 | |
13278373790 | Haughtiness | (n) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | 101 | |
13278373791 | Hedonism | (n) an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good | 102 | |
13278373792 | Hiatus | (n) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | 103 | |
13278373793 | Illustrious | (adj) widely known and esteemed | 104 | |
13728267464 | impervious | (adj) not admitting of passage or capable of being affected | 105 | |
13728267465 | incessant | (adj)uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | 106 | |
13728267466 | incongruous | (adj) lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness | 107 | |
13728267467 | incredulous | (adj) not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving | 108 | |
13728267468 | Indefatigable | (adj) showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality | 109 | |
13728267469 | indictment | (n) a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime | 110 | |
13728267470 | indignant | (adj) angered at something unjust or wrong | 111 | |
13728267471 | Indolently | (adj) lazily or slowly | 112 | |
13728267472 | Induce | (v) to move or lead someone to action | 113 | |
13728267473 | Inflection | (noun) the ups and downs of a language | 114 |
AP Language and Composition: Vocabulary SHORT DEFINITIONS Flashcards
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