113093398 | ABASE | verb: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | |
113093399 | ABDICATE | verb: give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | |
113093400 | ABERRATION | noun: an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image; a disorder in one's mental state; a state or condition markedly different from the norm | |
113093401 | ABEYANCE | noun: temporary cessation or suspension | |
113093402 | ABJECT | adj: showing humiliation or submissiveness; of the most contemptible kind; most unfortunate or miserable; showing utter resignation or hopelessness | |
113093403 | ABSTRUSE | adj: difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | |
113093404 | ACERBIC | adj: harsh or corrosive in tone; sour or bitter in taste | |
113093405 | ACQUIESCE | verb: to agree or express agreement | |
113093406 | ACRIMONY | noun: a rough and bitter manner | |
113093407 | ADULTERATE | adj: mixed with impurities; verb corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | |
113093408 | AESTHETIC | adj: concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste; aesthetically pleasing; relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics; noun (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful | |
113093409 | AGGRANDIZE | verb: add details to | |
113093410 | ALACRITY | noun: liveliness and eagerness | |
113093411 | ALLEGORY | noun: an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor; a short moral story (often with animal characters); a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | |
113093412 | AMALGAMATE | adj: joined together into a whole; verb to bring or combine together or with something else | |
113093413 | AMELIORATE | verb: get better; to make better | |
113093414 | AMORTIZE | verb: liquidate gradually | |
113093415 | ANACHRONISM | noun: an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | |
113093416 | ANATHEMA | noun: a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication; a detested person | |
113093417 | ANCILLARY | adj: furnishing added support | |
113093418 | ANTEDILUVIAN | adj. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; noun any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge; a very old person | |
113093419 | ANTERIOR | adj. earlier in time; of or near the head end or toward the front plane of the body; noun a tooth situated at the front of the mouth | |
113093420 | ANTIPATHY | noun the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided; a feeling of intense dislike | |
113093421 | APOCRYPHAL | adj. being of questionable authenticity; of or belonging to the Apocrypha | |
113093422 | APOTHEOSIS | noun the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god); model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | |
113093423 | APPROBATION | noun official recognition or approval; official approval | |
113093424 | ARDENT | adj. glowing or shining like fire; characterized by strong enthusiasm; characterized by intense emotion | |
113093425 | ARDOR | noun feelings of great warmth and intensity; intense feeling of love; a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | |
113093426 | ARDUOUS | adj. difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill; characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | |
113093427 | ASCETIC | adj. practicing great self-denial; pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; noun someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | |
113093428 | ASPERSION | noun the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare); an abusive attack on a person's character or good name; a disparaging remark | |
113093429 | ASSIDUOUS | adj. marked by care and persistent effort | |
113093430 | ASSUAGE | verb provide physical relief, as from pain; satisfy (thirst); cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | |
113093431 | ASTRINGENT | adj. tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue; sour or bitter in taste; noun a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals | |
113093432 | ATROCIOUS | adj. provoking horror; exceptionally bad or displeasing; shockingly brutal or cruel | |
113093433 | ATROPHY | noun any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use); a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse; verb undergo atrophy | |
113093434 | ATTENUATE | adj. reduced in strength; verb become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude; weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | |
113093435 | AUGURY | noun an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | |
113093436 | AUGUST | adj. profoundly honored; of or befitting a lord; noun the month following July and preceding September | |
113093437 | AUSPICIOUS | adj. auguring favorable circumstances and good luck | |
113093438 | AVARICE | n; greed for wealth | |
113093439 | AXIOM | n; generally accepted truth | |
113093440 | BALEFUL | adj; threatening, or seeming to threaten, harm or misfortune | |
113093441 | BANAL | adj; dull and unoriginal | |
113093442 | BASTION | n; strong supporter | |
113093443 | BELABOR | v; harp on something; criticize somebody | |
113093444 | BELEAGUER | v; annoy, siege | |
113093445 | BELIE | v; give false impression | |
113093446 | BELLICOSE | adj; warlike | |
113093447 | BELLIGERENT | adj; hostile or aggressive | |
113093448 | BENIGHTED | adj; ignorant, lacking knowledge or advantages others have | |
113093449 | BEQUEATH | v; leave somebody something in will | |
113093450 | BESEECH | v; beg somebody | |
113093451 | BILK | v; cheat somebody; avoid paying somebody or something; escape, ellude | |
113093452 | BLANDISH | v; cajole, persuade somebody by flattery | |
113093453 | BLIGHT | n; destructive force; v; disfigure, damage, scar | |
113093454 | BONHOMIE | n; easy friendliness | |
113093455 | BOON | n; great benefit; gift or favor | |
113093456 | BOURGEOIS | adj; conventional, capitalist | |
113093457 | BREACH | n; failure to maintain something; estrangement; hole; gap v; surpass limit, get through | |
113093458 | BRIGAND | a robber or bandit | |
113093459 | BRUSQUE | abrupt, blunt, or curt in manner or speech | |
113093460 | BURGEON | to grow or develop rapidly | |
113093461 | BUTTRESS | a structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support | |
113093462 | CADENCE | balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory | |
113093463 | CAJOLE | to persuade by flattery | |
113093464 | CALLOW | lacking adult maturity or experience, immature | |
113093465 | CAPACIOUS | spacious or roomy | |
113093466 | CAPITULATE | to surrender under specified conditions | |
113093467 | CAPRICIOUS | impulsive and unpredictable | |
113093468 | CASTIGATE | to inflict severe punishment on | |
113093469 | CATHARSIS | a release of emotional tension | |
113093470 | CATHOLIC | of broad or liberal scope; comprehensive | |
113093471 | CAVALIER | a gallant or chivalrous man | |
113093472 | CENTRIPETAL | moving or directed toward a center or axis | |
113093473 | CHAGRIN | a keen feeling of mental unease | |
113093474 | CHARLATAN | a person who makes elaborate | |
113093475 | CHICANERY | deception by trickery or sophistry | |
113093476 | CHOLERIC | easily angered; bad tempered | |
113093477 | CIRCUMLOCUTION | the use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language | |
113093478 | CIRCUMSCRIBE | verb draw a line around; to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect; restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" | |
113093479 | CIRCUMSPECT | adj. heedful of potential consequences | |
113093480 | CLANDESTINE | adj. conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | |
113093481 | CLEMENCY | noun leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; good weather with comfortable temperatures | |
113093482 | COALESCE | verb fuse or cause to grow together; mix together different elements | |
113093483 | COLLATERAL | adj. descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; situated or running side by side; accompany, concomitant; serving to support or corroborate; noun a security pledged for the repayment of a loan | |
113093484 | COLLOQUY | noun formal conversation; a conversation especially a formal one | |
113093485 | COLLUSION | noun secret agreement; agreement on a secret plot | |
113093486 | COMELINESS | noun the quality of being good looking and attractive | |
113093487 | COMMENSURATE | adj. corresponding in size or degree or extent | |
113093488 | COMMODIOUS | adj. large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | |
113093489 | COMPLICITY | noun guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense | |
113093490 | COMPUNCTION | noun a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | |
113093491 | CONCILIATORY | adj. intended or likely to overcome animosity or hostility; making or willing to make concessions | |
113093492 | CONGENITAL | adj. present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | |
113093493 | CONGRUITY | noun the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | |
113093494 | CONJECTURE | noun reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence; a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence; verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | |
113093495 | CONJURE | verb engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; ask for or request earnestly; summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | |
113093496 | CONSONANT | adj. involving or characterized by harmony; in keeping; noun a speech sound that is not a vowel; a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant | |
113093497 | CONSTRUE | verb make sense of; assign a meaning to | |
113093498 | CONSUMMATE | v; complete marriage; fulfill relationship through sex; conclude something | |
113093499 | CONTINENCE | n; self restraint | |
113093500 | CONTRAVENE | v; violate rule or law; contradict something | |
113093501 | CONVIVIAL | adj; pleasant; sociable | |
113093502 | CONVOKE | v; call formal meeting | |
113093503 | CONVOLUTED | adj; extremely intricate; very twisted | |
113093504 | COPIOUS | adj; abundant | |
113093505 | CORPOREAL | adj; concerning physical body | |
113093506 | CORPULENCE | n; obesity | |
113093507 | CORROBORATE | v; confirm | |
113093508 | COSSET | v; give excessive care | |
113093509 | COUNTENANCE (N) | face or expression; composure | |
113093510 | COUNTENANCE (V) | tolerate or approve something | |
113093511 | COUNTERMAND | v; cancel command, call somebody or something back | |
113093512 | CRAVEN | adj; cowardly | |
113093513 | CREDENCE | n; acceptance; trustworthiness | |
113093514 | CREDULOUS | adj; gullible; caused by readiness to believe | |
113093515 | CRESCENDO | n; increase in loudness; intensification | |
113093516 | CULPABLE | adj; guilty | |
113093517 | CUPIDITY | n; greed for wealth |
AP Literature Exam Vocab
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