201009792 | ameliorate | become better; improve | 0 | |
201009793 | amelioration | improvement | 1 | |
201009794 | conserve | keep from waste, loss or decay; save | 2 | |
201009795 | conservation | preservation from loss, injury or waste | 3 | |
201009796 | conservationist | one who advocates the conservation of natural resources | 4 | |
201009797 | detriment | injury, damage or something that causes it; disadvantage | 5 | |
201009798 | detrimental | harmful; damaging | 6 | |
201009799 | exotic | introduced from another country; foreign | 7 | |
201009800 | folly | lack of good sense; foolish action or undertaking | 8 | |
201009801 | formerly | in an earlier period, previously | 9 | |
201009802 | former | preceding; previous | 10 | |
201009803 | harmony | peaceable or friendly relations; accord; agreement; tranquility; concord | 11 | |
201009804 | harmonious | friendly; amicable | 12 | |
201009805 | ignore | refuse to take notice of; disregard | 13 | |
201009806 | ignoramus | ignorant; stupid person; dunce; dolt; dullard; nincompoop :) | 14 | |
201009807 | impediment | something that hinders or obstructs; hindrance; obstacle | 15 | |
201009808 | impede | interfere with or slow the progress of; hinder; obstruct | 16 | |
201009809 | indolent | disposed to avoid; exertion; lazy; idle; lethargic | 17 | |
201009810 | indolence | idleness; laziness | 18 | |
201009811 | intact | untouched by anything that damages or diminishes; left complete or entire; uninjured | 19 | |
201009812 | invalid | not binding in law; having no force or effect; void; nugatory | 20 | |
201009813 | invalidate | abolish; annul | 21 | |
201009814 | invalid | sickly or disabled person | 22 | |
201009815 | non-carcinogenic | not producing or tending to produce cancer | 23 | |
201009816 | parsimonious | unduly sparing in the spending of money; stingy; miserly; tightfisted | 24 | |
201009817 | parsimony | stinginess; parsimoniousness | 25 | |
201009818 | raze | destroy utterly by tearing down; demolish; level | 26 | |
201009819 | reticent | inclined to be silent or secretive; uncommunicative; reserved | 27 | |
201009820 | reticence | restraint in communicating | 28 | |
201009821 | retire | withdraw from active duty or business; go to bed | 29 | |
201009822 | retort | answer; reply sharply or angrily | 30 | |
201009823 | retort | quick, witty, or sharp reply; answer | 31 | |
201009824 | subvert | overturn or overthrow from the foundation; undermine | 32 | |
201009825 | subversion | sabotage; undermining | 33 | |
201009826 | tractable | easily led, taught, or controlled; yielding; docile; amenable | 34 | |
201009827 | tractability | obedience | 35 | |
202757486 | baffle | bewilder; perplex; fill with confusion; puzzle; frustrate | 36 | |
202757487 | baffling | frustrating; bewildering | 37 | |
202757488 | cinema | movies; motion-picture industry | 38 | |
202757489 | cinematography | art of making motion pictures | 39 | |
202757490 | despise | look down on with contempt or disgust; loathe; regard as inferior | 40 | |
202757491 | despicable | worthy of contempt; contemptible | 41 | |
202757492 | ebullient | overflowing with enthusiasm; exuberant; effervescent; high-spirited; vivacious | 42 | |
202757493 | ebuillience | exuberance | 43 | |
202757494 | exaggerate | overstate; go beyond the limits of the actual truth; magnify | 44 | |
202757495 | exaggeration | overstatement | 45 | |
202757496 | exhort | arouse by words; advise strongly; urge | 46 | |
202757497 | exhortation | urgent recommendation or advice | 47 | |
202757498 | expertise | specialized skill or technical knowledge; know-how; expertness | 48 | |
202757499 | finicky | excessively concerned with trifles or details; hard to please; fussy; particular; fastidious; persnickety | 49 | |
202757500 | gall | make sore; irritate mentally; annoy; vex | 50 | |
202757501 | gall | brazen boldness; nerve | 51 | |
202757502 | inane | lacking significance or sense; pointless; silly; insipid; jejune; vapid | 52 | |
202757503 | inanity | foolishness; shallowness | 53 | |
202757504 | indemnify | compensate for loss, damage, or injury; reimburse; repay | 54 | |
202757505 | Occident | west; countries of America and Europe | 55 | |
202757506 | occidental | western | 56 | |
202757507 | peruse | read; look at fairly attentively; study | 57 | |
202757508 | perusal | reading; study | 58 | |
202757509 | scuffle | struggle at close quarters in a rough and confused manner; wrestle; grapple | 59 | |
202757510 | scuffle | brawl; fight | 60 | |
202757511 | spurn | thrust aside with disdain or contempt; reject | 61 | |
202757512 | stipend | fixed pay for services; salary; regular allowance awarded a scholarship winner | 62 | |
202757513 | surveillance | close watch over a person, group, or area; supervision | 63 | |
202757514 | tepid | moderately warm; lukewarm | 64 | |
202757515 | tepidly | unenthusiastically; lukewarmly | 65 | |
202757516 | wager | risk (something) on the outcome of a contest or uncertain event; gamble; bet | 66 | |
202757517 | wager | bet | 67 | |
202757518 | wane | decrease in power or size; dwindle; decline; sink | 68 | |
203586964 | abhorrent | in conflict; utterly opposed; loathsome; repugnant; odious; abominable | 69 | |
203586965 | abhor | utterly detest; loathe; hate | 70 | |
203586966 | admonish | reprove gently but seriously; warn of a fault; caution | 71 | |
203586967 | admonition | gentle warning; friendly reproof | 72 | |
203586968 | ambrosial | extremely pleasing to taste or smell; delicious; heavenly | 73 | |
203586969 | confine | shut up; imprison; keep in narrow, cramped quarters | 74 | |
203586970 | confinement | imprisonment | 75 | |
203586971 | decade | period of ten years | 76 | |
203586972 | detonate | explode with suddenness and violence; cause something to explode | 77 | |
203586973 | detonation | explosion | 78 | |
203586974 | ephemeral | lasting one day only; fleeting; transitory; short-lived; transient | 79 | |
203586975 | gullible | easily deceived or cheated; credulous | 80 | |
203586976 | gull | deceive; cheat | 81 | |
203586977 | haggle | dispute or argue over a price in a petty way; bargain; wrangle | 82 | |
203586978 | immerse | 1. plunge of place into a liquid; dip; duck 2. engross; absorb | 83 | |
203586979 | immersion | state of being deeply engrossed; absorption | 84 | |
203586980 | insomnia | inability to sleep; abnormal wakefulness; sleeplessness | 85 | |
203586981 | insomniac | person suffering from inability to sleep | 86 | |
203586982 | lapse | 1. slip; error; accidental mistake; trivial fault 2. interval | 87 | |
203586983 | probe | critical inquiry into suspected illegal activity; investigation | 88 | |
203586984 | prober | investigator | 89 | |
203586985 | render | hand down officially; deliver (as a verdict); give | 90 | |
203586986 | rendering | presentation; interpretation | 91 | |
203586987 | repast | food for one occasion of eating; meal | 92 | |
203586988 | replenish | bring back to condition of being full; refill | 93 | |
203586989 | score | group or set of twenty; twenty | 94 | |
203586990 | snub | act or instance of treating with contempt; rebuff; slight; insult | 95 | |
203586991 | snub | treat with disdain or contempt; slight | 96 | |
203586992 | suture | stand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body; also, stitch made with such material | 97 | |
203586993 | unwittingly | unintentionally; by accident; inadvertently; unknowingly | 98 | |
204487323 | acquit | relieve from an accusation; pronounce not guilty; discharge; exculpate; exonerate | 99 | |
204487324 | acquittal | exculpation; discharge | 100 | |
204487325 | complex | having varied interrelated parts, and therefore hard to understand; complicated; intricate | 101 | |
204487326 | complexity | difficulty; intricacy | 102 | |
204487327 | consign | give, transfer, or deliver as if by signing over; hand over, commit | 103 | |
204487328 | consignee | person to whom something is shipped | 104 | |
204487329 | effrontery | shameless boldness; insolence; gall; temerity; nerve | 105 | |
204487330 | excruciating | causing great pain or anguish; agonizing; unbearably painful | 106 | |
204487331 | forbearance | act of refraining; abstaining; leniency; patience | 107 | |
204487332 | hamper | interfere with; hinder; impede | 108 | |
204487333 | nettlesome | full of plants with stinging hairs; irritating; causing annoyance | 109 | |
204487334 | oblivious | forgetful; unmindful; not aware; unwitting | 110 | |
204487335 | oblivion | condition of being forgotten or unknown; forgetfulness | 111 | |
204487336 | prodigious | extraordinary in amount or size; enormous; gigantic; huge; colossal | 112 | |
204487337 | prodigy | person of extraordinary talent or ability; wonder | 113 | |
204487338 | rejuvenate | make young or youthful again; give new vigor to; reinvigorate; refresh | 114 | |
204487339 | residue | whatever is left after a part is taken, disposed of, or gone; remainder; rest | 115 | |
204487340 | residual | remaining after a part is used or taken | 116 | |
204487341 | salutary | favorable to health; healthful; curative; beneficial | 117 | |
204487342 | scrutinize | examine very closely; inspect | 118 | |
204487343 | scrutiny | examination; inspection; review | 119 | |
204487344 | supersede | force out of use; displace; supplant; replace | 120 | |
204487345 | sweltering | oppressively hot; torrid; sultry | 121 | |
204487346 | swelter | suffer from oppressive heat | 122 | |
204487347 | unruffled | not upset or agitated; calm; cool; unflustered; collected | 123 | |
204487348 | unwieldy | hard to handle because of size or weight; unmanageable; bulky; cumbersome | 124 | |
204487349 | unwieldiness | bulkiness | 125 | |
204487350 | withdraw | take back; remove | 126 | |
204487351 | withdrawal | taking back, removal; drawing back, retreat, departure | 127 | |
204487352 | zany | having the characteristics of a clown; mildly insane; crazy; clownish; loony | 128 | |
204487353 | zany | clown; buffoon | 129 |
College Bound Vocab Test 1 - AP English Flashcards
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