This is a combination of the AP English Language and Composition Hit Parade, A Working Vocabulary of Fundamental Terms, and Rhetorical/Literary Terms and Definitions vocab lists.
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| 4362497864 | egregious | conspicuously bad or offensive | 0 | |
| 4362497892 | ambivalent | simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain | 1 | |
| 4362536697 | superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess | 2 | |
| 4362497916 | assimilate | to absorb; to make similar | 3 | |
| 4362497927 | dogmatic | Aggressively and arrogantly certain about personal beliefs and principles | 4 | |
| 4362497935 | inherent | inborn; built-in | 5 | |
| 4362497937 | inveterate | long established; deep-rooted; habitual | 6 | |
| 4362497948 | facetious | playfully humorous | 7 | |
| 4362497954 | aesthetic | having to do with the appreciation of beauty | 8 | |
| 4362497979 | pejorative | describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone | 9 | |
| 4368141742 | egregious | The Pentagon also appears to have ruled out the possibility of holding them accountable in a court of law for one of the most _________________ war zone blunders in recent history. | 10 | |
| 4368148145 | ambivalent | In that respect, Saudi Arabia rather resembled Pakistan, which had a similarly ____________________ attitude towards the Taliban. | 11 | |
| 4368172122 | superfluous | Professors aren't considering the costs of the books they require students to buy, and publishers are pushing newer editions with ___________________ materials and minor changes to make a few more bucks. | 12 | |
| 4368179929 | assimilate | Our guiding light has always been that we want people to come here to become Americans -- to _______________ and adopt the culture of our country | 13 | |
| 4368703277 | dogmatic | Part of the problem is that __________________________ pro-choicers largely refuse to acknowledge that sex-selective abortion exists, much less that it is a problem. | 14 | |
| 4368703278 | inherent | Let's start with the over-arching question being decided here: do nontraditional schools have ___________________ advantages over traditional ones? | 15 | |
| 4368706079 | inveterate | You don't have to be a recreational drug user or a partier to develop an _______________________ habit of popping pills. | 16 | |
| 4368706080 | facetious | "The organising committee was very surprised that some have taken the _____________________ wording of the debate literally," Ranzcog said. | 17 | |
| 4368707490 | aesthetic | If the star-spangled uniform design was the Nets' __________________________ high-water mark, there have also been plenty of lowlights along the way. | 18 | |
| 4368707491 | pejorative | The use of "ghetto" as a _____________________ hasn't been around nearly as long as its use as a socio-politico-spatial designation, but it's probably the more common and definitely the more powerful one now. | 19 |
