AP Language Vocabulary
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| 250018347 | accolade | award of merit | |
| 250018348 | acrimony | bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility | |
| 250018349 | avant-garde | new and unusual | |
| 250018350 | baroque | highly ornate | |
| 250018351 | bourgeois | middle class; selfishly materialistic; too interested in material possessions | |
| 250018352 | cacophony | harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance | |
| 250018353 | camaraderie | trust among friends | |
| 250018354 | capricious | impulsive and unpredictable | |
| 250018355 | carte blanche | complete freedom or authority to act | |
| 250018356 | Catch 22 | No win situation | |
| 250018357 | bona fide | genuine, sincere | |
| 250018358 | caustic | any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue | |
| 250018359 | cloying | distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental | |
| 250018360 | sentiment | a feeling or opinion, esp. based on emotion instead of reason | |
| 250018361 | dilettante | an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | |
| 250018362 | ennui | boredom | |
| 250018363 | equanimity | calmness, composure, refusal to panic | |
| 250018364 | esoteric | intended for or understood by only a small group | |
| 250018365 | euphemism | a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term | |
| 250018366 | equivocate | be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | |
| 250018367 | fait accompli | Something that is already done so that there is no use in debating it | |
| 250018368 | fastidious | giving and careful attention to detail | |
| 250018369 | faux pas | a minor social error that may cause embarrassment | |
| 250018370 | Freudian slip | slip of the tongue by which it is thought a person unintentionally reveals his or her true feelings | |
| 250018371 | harbinger | something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner | |
| 250018372 | idiosyncratic | peculiar; unique; eccentric | |
| 250018373 | kitsch | art characterized by sentimental, often pretentious bad taste | |
| 250018374 | lurid | glaringly vivid and graphic | |
| 250018375 | malaise | a vague feeling of physical discomfort or uneasiness | |
| 250018376 | litany | any long and tedious address or recital | |
| 250018377 | malinger | to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill | |
| 250018378 | maudlin | self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness | |
| 250018379 | misnomer | an incorrect or unsuitable name | |
| 250018380 | non sequitur | a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before | |
| 250018381 | nouveau riche | One who has recently become rich, especially one who vulgarly displays wealth | |
| 250018382 | panacea | cure-all | |
| 250018383 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | |
| 250018384 | perfunctory | done without care; in a routine fashion | |
| 250018385 | philistine | smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values | |
| 250018386 | propriety | (n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | |
| 250018387 | quid pro quo | something given in exchange or return for something else | |
| 250018388 | scintillating | sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant | |
| 250018389 | Svengali | A person who exercises excessive control or influence over another person | |
| 250018390 | sycophant | a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favor | |
| 250018391 | tete-a-tete | a private conversation between two people | |
| 250018392 | unrequited | not returned in kind | |
| 250018393 | untenable | not capable of being held or defended; impossible to maintain | |
| 250018394 | white elephant | possession entailing expense and trouble far greater than its usefulness to the owner | |
| 250018395 | colloquial | characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | |
| 250018396 | ad hominem | in an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. | |
| 250018397 | pithy | short but full of meaning and point, concise and meaningful; substantial; meaty | |
| 250018398 | ad hoc | often improvised or impromptu | |
| 250018399 | aphorism | a short pithy instructive saying | |
| 250018400 | innuendo | a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense) | |
| 250018401 | oxymoron | an expression in which two words that contradict each other are joined | |
| 250018402 | allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | |
| 250018403 | anecdote | short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) | |
| 250018404 | juxtapose | place side by side | |
| 250018405 | invective | abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | |
| 250018406 | jargon | specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject | |
| 250018407 | motif | a recurring theme, subject, or idea | |
| 250018408 | diatribe | bitter verbal attack | |
| 250018409 | pernicious | exceedingly harmful | |
| 250018410 | fervent | characterized by intense emotion | |
| 250018411 | didactic | intended to teach or instruct | |
| 250018412 | vanquish | overcome in battle; conquer; defeat | |
| 250018413 | pious | devoutly religious | |
| 250018414 | burlesque | a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way | |
| 250018415 | voracious | having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager | |
| 250018416 | condescending | acting superior to others | |
| 250018417 | exhort | urge on or encourage especially by shouts | |
| 250018418 | pedantic | excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules | |
| 250018419 | punctilious | very careful and exact | |
| 250018420 | petulant | easily irritated or annoyed | |
| 250018421 | mordant | harshly ironic or sinister | |
| 250018422 | bellicose | eager to fight | |
| 250018423 | cloistered | secluded; hidden from the world, usually religious seclusion | |
| 250018424 | tacit | unspoken, silent; implied, inferred | |
| 250018425 | ambivalence | mixed feelings or emotions | |
| 250018426 | dogmatic | characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles | |
| 250018427 | complacent | Self-satisfied; smug | |
| 250018428 | gratuitous | unnecessary and unwarranted | |
| 250018429 | prudent | wise, careful, cautious | |
| 250018430 | pragmatic | concerned with practical matters | |
| 250018431 | dyspeptic | irritable as if suffering from indigestion | |
| 250018432 | ignominy | public shame, disgrace, or dishonor | |
| 250018433 | integrity | honesty, high moral standards; an unimpaired condition, completeness, soundness | |
| 250018434 | consecrate | solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose | |
| 250018435 | languid | slow, sluggish, listless, weak | |
| 250018436 | pedestrian | lacking wit or imagination | |
| 250018437 | feign | to pretend | |
| 250018438 | cynical | believing the worst of human nature and motives | |
| 250018439 | hypocrisy | the practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity | |
| 250018440 | doggerel | verse that is loosely styled; poorly written | |
| 250018441 | callous | emotionally hardened, unfeeling | |
| 250018442 | embellishment | the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | |
| 250018443 | zealous | passionate; extremely interested in pursuing something | |
| 250018444 | antithesis | a direct opposite, a contrast | |
| 250018445 | infer | reason by deduction | |
| 250018446 | red herring | any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue | |
| 250018447 | pecuniary | relating to or involving money | |
| 250018448 | abrogate | to abolish, usually by authority | |
| 250018449 | acumen | quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgement or insight | |
| 250018450 | antebellum | belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War | |
| 250018451 | auspicious | marked by success; grand | |
| 250018452 | belie | represent falsely | |
| 250018453 | chicanery | the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | |
| 250018454 | churlish | having a bad disposition | |
| 250018455 | circumlocution | The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language | |
| 250018456 | deleterious | having a harmful effect | |
| 250018457 | enervate | weaken mentally or morally | |
| 250018458 | enfranchise | grant freedom to | |
| 250018459 | facetious | humorous, not meant seriously | |
| 250018460 | fatuous | foolish; inane | |
| 250018461 | feckless | without purpose | |
| 250018462 | fiduciary | held in trust; confidential | |
| 250018463 | hegemony | the domination of one state or group over its allies | |
| 250018464 | homogeneous | all of the same or similar kind or nature | |
| 250018465 | kow-tow | bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | |
| 250018466 | loquacious | very talkative | |
| 250018467 | nomenclature | a system of words used in a particular discipline | |
| 250018468 | paradigm | a standard or typical example | |
| 250018469 | precipitous | extremely steep | |
| 250018470 | recapitulate | to repeat, reiterate | |
| 250018471 | wrought | put together; created |
