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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| 9545679335 | assertion | a declaration or statement | 0 | |
| 9545679346 | arbiter | a judge who decides a disputed issue | 1 | |
| 9545679347 | biased | prejudiced | 2 | |
| 9545679375 | alienated | removed or disassociated from (friends, family, or homeland) | 3 | |
| 9545679376 | alliance | a union of two or more groups | 4 | |
| 9545679393 | alleviate | to ease a pain or burden | 5 | |
| 9545679394 | asylum | a place of retreat or security | 6 | |
| 9545679395 | auspicious | favorable; promising | 7 | |
| 9545679396 | benevolent | well-meaning; generous | 8 | |
| 9545679397 | benign | kind and gentle | 9 | |
| 9545679406 | astute | shrewd; clever | 10 | |
| 9545679415 | ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation | 11 | |
| 9545679416 | ambivalent | simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain | 12 | |
| 9545679417 | apathetic | feeling or showing little emotion | 13 | |
| 9545679418 | arbitrary | determined by impulse rather than reason | 14 | |
| 9545679428 | assiduous | hard-working | 15 | |
| 9545679438 | assimilation | to absorb; to make similar | 16 | |
| 9545679445 | acquired | developed or learned; not naturally occurring | 17 | |
| 9545679465 | affable | easy-going; friendly | 18 | |
| 9545679466 | amenable | responsive; agreeable | 19 | |
| 9545679474 | aesthetic | having to do with the appreciation of beauty | 20 | |
| 9545679475 | anthology | a collection of literary pieces | 21 | |
| 9545679495 | brusque | rudely abrupt | 22 | |
| 9545679504 | brittle | easily broken when subjected to pressure | 23 | |
| 9545679512 | archaic | characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned | 24 | |
| 9545679515 | austere | without decoration; strict | 25 | |
| 9545679521 | apprehension | anxiety or fear about the future | 26 | |
| 9545679531 | arid | describing a dry, rainless climate | 27 | |
| 9545679535 | ample | describing a large amount of something | 28 | |
| 9545679554 | abstract | not applied to actual objects | 29 | |
| 9545679555 | anachronism | something out of place in time or sequence | 30 | |
| 9545679556 | anthropomorphism | the attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature | 31 | |
| 9545679557 | apparatus | equipment; a group of machines | 32 | |
| 9545679558 | apposition | a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation | 33 | |
| 9545679559 | archetype | a perfect example; an original pattern or model | 34 | |
| 9545679572 | active voice | the opposite of passive voice; essentially any sentence with an active verb | 35 | |
| 9545679573 | ad hominem | an attack on the person rather than the issues at hand (a common fallacy) | 36 | |
| 9545679574 | alliteration | the repetition of a phonetic sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence | 37 | |
| 9545679575 | allusion | a reference that recalls another work, another time in history, another famous person, and so forth | 38 | |
| 9545679576 | analogy | a term that signifies a relational comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas | 39 | |
| 9545679577 | anaphora | the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive poetic lines, prose sentences, clauses, or paragraphs | 40 | |
| 9545679578 | antithesis | an observation or claim that is in opposition to your claim or an author's claim | 41 | |
| 9545679579 | aphorism | a brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth | 42 | |
| 9545679580 | apostrophe | prayer-like, this is a direct address to someone who is not present, to a deity or muse, or to some other power | 43 | |
| 9545679581 | asyndeton | the deliberate omission of conjunctions from a series of related independent clauses | 44 | |
| 9545679582 | bandwagon | also called vox populi, this argument is the "everyone's doing it" fallacy | 45 | |
| 9545679583 | begging the question | this argument occurs when the speaker states a claim that includes a word or phrase that needs to be defined before the argument can proceed | 46 | |
| 9545679668 | ambiguity | the presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage; not clear | 47 | |
| 9545679675 | absolutes | a choice in which something must be one way or the other - there is no middle ground | 48 | |
| 9545679679 | argumentation | the process of forming reasons, justifying beliefs, and drawing conclusions with the aim of influencing the thoughts and/or actions of others | 49 |
