7262222067 | ape | the action of attempting an overly exact imitation and ending up with negative or laughable results | 0 | |
7262232546 | dun | to insist on the on the payment of a debt | 1 | |
7262234675 | fop | used for a man who is too concerned with his looks and his clothes | 2 | |
7262244718 | gad | to move out, travel, usually in a kind of aimless way | 3 | |
7262250651 | hex | an evil spell or to put an evil spell on someone | 4 | |
7262259294 | ken | the limits of your knowledge | 5 | |
7262262879 | pox | bad luck | 6 | |
7262264100 | sow | to plant a seed (literally and figuratively) | 7 | |
7262271000 | vex | to annoy or perplex | 8 | |
7262272710 | vie | compete, contend | 9 | |
7262275986 | amalgamation | to mix or combine into a unified whole | 10 | |
7262296222 | admixture | mixture, mix with | 11 | |
7262300763 | eclectric | made up from a variety of sources | 12 | |
7262305327 | catholic | comprehensive, of broad scope | 13 | |
7262309671 | motley | composed of a variety of sources, heterogeneous | 14 | |
7262315010 | corroborate | to bring in new evidence to strengthen or support an idea or argument | 15 | |
7262318798 | asunder | apart, into separate pieces | 16 | |
7262324195 | diaspora | dispersion of a people from their original homeland, language or culture | 17 | |
7262336867 | cleave | to split, cut, or penetrate | 18 | |
7262342201 | disseminate | to scatter widely, to disperse | 19 | |
7291378364 | aphrodisiac | foods or drugs that allegedly make men and women feel more amorous | 20 | |
7291388994 | chthonic | describing something coming from the underworld | 21 | |
7291392991 | hector | to bully or to try to force someone to do something | 22 | |
7291396768 | hermetic | describe something very literal, a jar so completely sealed that no air can get in | 23 | |
7291402185 | junoesque | a woman who is unusually tall and stately and so beautiful as to seem divine | 24 | |
7291407634 | mercurial | describes someone whose moods change very rapidly | 25 | |
7291419178 | mnemonic | refers to memory or relating to memory | 26 | |
7291420749 | muse | to lose yourself in your thoughts perhaps a waiting inspiration | 27 | |
7291425984 | oddysey | a literal journey or a journey of the intellect or spirit | 28 | |
7291428961 | saturnine | gloomy or even bitterly sarcastic and mocking | 29 | |
7291434820 | magnanimous | extremely generous and forgiving | 30 | |
7291438238 | parsimonious | excessively stinging | 31 | |
7291440304 | prodigal | extremely wasteful or extravagant | 32 | |
7291445989 | penurious | stingy or unwilling to spend money (poor) | 33 | |
7291450342 | eleemosynary | contributing to charity | 34 | |
7291454190 | frugale | extremely economical | 35 | |
7291457728 | munificent | very generous in giving | 36 | |
7291460113 | averiscious | greedy | 37 | |
7291476618 | mean | miseraly and stingy | 38 | |
7291476619 | indulgent | leniant | 39 | |
7291476620 | equine | anything bearing the characteristics of horses | 40 | |
7291481010 | bovine | of or related to the characteristics of cows, oxen, or buffalos, also sluggish or dull | 41 | |
7291487499 | lupine | ravenous or rapacious | 42 | |
7292813901 | ursine | bears-like, usually a physical description | 43 | |
7292821308 | porcine | resembling a swine or pig, either physically or behaviorally | 44 | |
7292827741 | simian | resembles an ape or a monkey | 45 | |
7292831022 | serpentine | snake-like in behavior or physically resembling a snake | 46 | |
7292844464 | pachyderm | thick-skinned, refers to the group of large, thick-skinned, hoofed animals | 47 | |
7292872613 | avian | having the characteristics of birds | 48 | |
7292879487 | herpetology | denotes the study of reptiles and amphibians | 49 | |
7292888896 | laconic | those who say little | 50 | |
7292893087 | taciturn | implying an even more grudging conversational style | 51 | |
7292899913 | lapidary | characterizes precision of wording | 52 | |
7292923474 | pithy | compliment for style of word use that is both brief and forceful | 53 | |
7292942187 | succinct | concise speaking or writing | 54 | |
7292944822 | terse | brief, to the point | 55 | |
7292958979 | garrulous | talking a great deal, taking too much, going on and on | 56 | |
7292981090 | prattling | to prattle, chatter meaninglessly | 57 | |
7292992128 | glib | speaking without enough thought, words come easily | 58 | |
7293004260 | prolix | pouring forth of too many words or phrases | 59 | |
7293009095 | maundering | you keep on going when you could have won praise for being more concise | 60 | |
7293031257 | indigenous | people or things that are native to a region | 61 | |
7293033838 | interloper | intrude where they aren't wanted | 62 | |
7293036637 | extraneous | coming from the outside, irrelevant or unimportant | 63 | |
7293050270 | inherent | stuck into | 64 | |
7293054266 | germane | relevant, suitable, closely connected | 65 | |
7293058236 | pariah | someone not accepted into his or her society, social outcast | 66 | |
7293077940 | endemic | native or common to or peculiar to a specific region or abstract area | 67 | |
7293096712 | intrinsic | inherent, inward | 68 | |
7293105429 | ostracize | expelling a person from a community either literally or figuratively | 69 | |
7293133517 | tangential | slightly touching, barely connected | 70 | |
7293143361 | ominous | foreshadowing of the future | 71 | |
7293147688 | portentous | something carrying a sign, a portent, of the threats of the future | 72 | |
7293164359 | inauspicious | predicts or suggests something favorable | 73 | |
7293519486 | imminent | something about to occur | 74 | |
7293523178 | impending | something threatening or not, the new arrival of the event hangs over you | 75 | |
7293528074 | minatory | threatening | 76 | |
7293530859 | presage | forewarning, an ominous feeling of a prediction | 77 | |
7293537408 | bode and forebode | the one-syllable word is a verb referring to an omen and the two-syllable repeats or intensifies that presentiment | 78 | |
7293544676 | propitiate | actions to appease or calm forces that might oppose a favorable outcome | 79 | |
7293550342 | harbinger | forerunner, an early warning or messenger of what's to come | 80 | |
7293558367 | squander | spend extravagantly | 81 | |
7293564182 | dissipation | a literal scattering dispersion, a specialized sense of scattering | 82 | |
7293569201 | disenfranchise | to lose the right to vote | 83 | |
7293573376 | forfeiture | the idea of a penalty, giving up something one's possession | 84 | |
7293579428 | denude | primarily used of trees that lose their leaves or loss of other vegetation, to make bare | 85 | |
7293585114 | privation | deprived of basic necessities or comforts | 86 | |
7293591626 | divest | to undress | 87 | |
7293605220 | renounce | give it up | 88 | |
7293608083 | elegiac | feeling of sadness many types of losses | 89 | |
7293612559 | bereave | to leave desolate, usually by death | 90 |
AP Language Vocabulary Quiz 1 Flashcards
Primary tabs
Need Help?
We hope your visit has been a productive one. If you're having any problems, or would like to give some feedback, we'd love to hear from you.
For general help, questions, and suggestions, try our dedicated support forums.
If you need to contact the Course-Notes.Org web experience team, please use our contact form.
Need Notes?
While we strive to provide the most comprehensive notes for as many high school textbooks as possible, there are certainly going to be some that we miss. Drop us a note and let us know which textbooks you need. Be sure to include which edition of the textbook you are using! If we see enough demand, we'll do whatever we can to get those notes up on the site for you!