129690250 | assertion | a declaration or statement | |
129690251 | clarity | clearness in thought or expression | |
129690252 | cogent | convincing; reasonable | |
129690253 | coherent | logically connected | |
129690254 | cohesive | condition of sticking together | |
129690255 | didactic | intended to instruct | |
129690256 | discourse | verbal expression or exchange; conversation | |
129690257 | eloquence | the ability to speak vividly or persuasively | |
129690258 | emphasize | to give special attention to something, to stress | |
129690259 | fluid | easily flowing | |
129690260 | implication | the act of suggesting or hinting | |
129690261 | lucid | easily understood; clear | |
129690262 | rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | |
129690263 | arbiter | a judge who decides a disputed issue | |
129690264 | biased | prejudiced | |
129690265 | exculpate | to free from guilt or blame | |
129690266 | impartial | not in favor of one side or the other, unbiased | |
129690267 | incontrovertible | not able to be denied or disputed | |
129690268 | integrity | trustworthiness; completeness | |
129690269 | objectivity | treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices | |
129690270 | penitent | expressing remorse for one's misdeeds | |
129690271 | plausible | seemingly valid or acceptable; credible | |
129690272 | substantiated | supported with proof or evidence; verified | |
129690273 | vindicated | freed from blame | |
129690274 | condescending | treating people as weak or inferior | |
129690275 | contemptuous | feeling hatred; scornful | |
129690276 | despotic | exercising absolute power; tyrannical | |
129690277 | dictatorial | domineering; oppressively overbearing | |
129690278 | disdain | contempt, scorn, to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on | |
129690279 | haughty | arrogant; vainly proud | |
129690280 | imperious | arrogantly domineering or overbearing | |
129690281 | patronizing | treating in a condescending manner | |
129690282 | convoluted | intricate; complex | |
129690283 | cryptic | difficult to comprehend | |
129690284 | futile | having no useful purpose; pointless | |
129690285 | impede | to slow the progress of | |
129690286 | obscure | relatively unknown; to conceal or make indistinct | |
129690287 | quandary | a state of uncertainty or perplexity | |
129690288 | indolent | lazy | |
129690289 | insipid | uninteresting; unchallenging | |
129690290 | listless | lacking energy | |
129690291 | torpor | laziness; inactivity; dullness | |
129690292 | alienated | removed or disassociated from | |
129690293 | alliance | a union of two or more groups | |
129690294 | disparity | inequality in age, rank, or degree;, difference | |
129690295 | servile | submissive; like a servant | |
129690296 | suppressed | subdued; kept from being circulated | |
129690297 | embellish | to make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate | |
129690298 | florid | describing flowery or elaborate speech | |
129690299 | opulent | exhibiting a display of great wealth | |
129690300 | ornate | elaborately decorated | |
129690301 | ostentatious | describing a showy or pretentious display | |
129690302 | poignant | profoundly moving; touching | |
129690303 | ebullience | intense enthusiasm | |
129690304 | effusive | emotionally unrestrained; gushy | |
129690305 | egregious | conspicuously bad or offensive | |
129690306 | flagrant | extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable | |
129690307 | frenetic | wildly excited or active | |
129690308 | gratuitous | given freely; unearned; unwarranted | |
129690309 | superfluous | extra; unnecessary | |
129690310 | alleviate | to ease a pain or burden | |
129690311 | asylum | a place of retreat or security | |
129690312 | auspicious | favorable; promising | |
129690313 | benevolent | well-meaning; generous | |
129690314 | benign | kind and gentle | |
129690315 | mollify | to calm or soothe | |
129690316 | reclamation | the act of making something useful again | |
129690317 | sanction | to give official authorization or approval | |
129690318 | dubious | doubtful; of unlikely authenticity | |
129690319 | fabricated | made; concocted to deceive | |
129690320 | hypocrisy | the practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity | |
129690321 | slander | false charges and malicious oral statements about someone | |
129690322 | spurious | not genuine | |
129690323 | astute | shrewd; clever | |
129690324 | clandestine | secretive | |
129690325 | coup | a brilliantly executed plan | |
129690326 | disingenuous | not straightforward; crafty | |
129690327 | ruse | a crafty trick | |
129690328 | stratagem | a clever trick used to deceive or outwit | |
129690329 | surreptitiously | done by secretive means | |
129690330 | wary | on guard | |
129690331 | wily | cunning | |
129690332 | ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation | |
129690333 | ambivalent | simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain | |
129690334 | apathetic | feeling or showing little emotion | |
129690335 | arbitrary | determined by impulse rather than reason | |
129690336 | capricious | impulsive and unpredictable | |
129690337 | equivocate | to avoid making a definite statement | |
129690338 | indifferent | not caring one way or the other | |
129690339 | spontaneous | unplanned; naturally occurring | |
129690340 | whimsical | subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable | |
129690341 | inconsequential | unimportant | |
129690342 | superficial | concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow | |
129690343 | tenuous | having little substance or strength | |
129690344 | trivial | of little substance or significance | |
129690345 | assiduous | hard-working | |
129690346 | compelling | forceful; urgently demanding attention | |
129690347 | diligent | marked by painstaking effort; hard-working | |
129690348 | dogged | stubbornly persevering | |
129690349 | endure | to put up with; to survive a hardship | |
129690350 | intrepid | courageous; fearless; bold | |
129690351 | maverick | one who is independent and resists adherence to a group | |
129690352 | obdurate | stubborn; inflexible | |
129690353 | obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action | |
129690354 | proliferate | to grow or increase rapidly | |
129690355 | tenacity | persistence | |
129690356 | vitality | energy; power to survive | |
129690357 | assimilation | to absorb; to make similar | |
129690358 | consensus | general agreement | |
129690359 | context | circumstances of a situation; environment | |
129690360 | derived | copied or adapted from a source | |
129690361 | incumbent | imposed as a duty; obligatory | |
129690362 | inevitable | bound to happen; unavoidable | |
129690363 | malleable | easily shaped or formed; easily influenced | |
129690364 | subdue | to restrain; to hold back | |
129690365 | acquired | developed or learned; not naturally occuring | |
129690366 | conception | the ability to form or understand an idea | |
129690367 | conviction | a fixed or strong belief | |
129690368 | dogmatic | stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs | |
129690369 | enlightening | informative; contributing to one's awareness | |
129690370 | impression | a feeling or understanding resulting from an experience | |
129690371 | intuition | the power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight | |
129690372 | misconception | an incorrect understanding or interpretation | |
129690373 | perception | awareness; insight | |
129690374 | perspective | point of view | |
129690375 | profound | having great depth or seriousness | |
129690376 | inherent | inborn; built-in | |
129690377 | innate | possessed at birth; inborn | |
129690378 | inveterate | long established; deep-rooted; habitual | |
129690379 | omnipotent | all-powerful | |
129690380 | proximity | closeness | |
129690381 | elusive | difficult to capture, as in something actually fleeting | |
129690382 | emigrate | to leave one country or region and settle in another | |
129690383 | transient | passing away with time; passing from one place to another | |
129690384 | transitory | short-lived or temporary | |
129690385 | affable | easy-going; friendly | |
129690386 | amenable | responsive; agreeable | |
129690387 | camaraderie | good will between friends | |
129690388 | cordial | friendly; sincere | |
129690389 | facetious | playfully humorous | |
129690390 | aesthetic | having to do with the appreciation of beauty | |
129690391 | anthology | a collection of literary pieces | |
129690392 | contemporary | current, modern; from the same time | |
129690393 | dilettante | one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge | |
129690394 | eclectic | made up of a variety of sources or styles | |
129690395 | excerpt | a selected part of a passage or scene | |
129690396 | genre | describing the category or artistic endeavor | |
129690397 | medley | an assortment or a mixture, especially of musical pieces | |
129690398 | mural | a large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface | |
129690399 | narrative | characterized by the telling of a story | |
129690400 | parody | an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect | |
129690401 | realism | artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy | |
129690402 | virtuoso | a tremendously skilled artist | |
129690403 | decorous | proper; marked by good taste | |
129690404 | equanimity | the quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure | |
129690405 | modest | quiet or humble in manner or appearance | |
129690406 | propriety | appropriateness of behavior | |
129690407 | prudent | exercising good judgment or common sense | |
129690408 | serene | calm | |
129690409 | staid | unemotional; serious | |
129690410 | stoic | indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive | |
129690411 | condemn | to express strong disapproval of; denounce | |
129690412 | discredit | to cause to be doubted | |
129690413 | disparage | to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle | |
129690414 | pejorative | describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone | |
129690415 | plagiarism | the act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own | |
129690416 | vilify | to make vicious statements about | |
129690417 | brusque | rudely abrupt | |
129690418 | caustic | severely critical or sarcastic | |
129690419 | factious | quarrelsome | |
129690420 | incorrigible | incapable of being reformed | |
129690421 | ingrate | an ungrateful person | |
129690422 | insolent | insulting in manner or speech | |
129690423 | notorious | known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous | |
129690424 | pugnacious | combative; belligerent | |
129690425 | reprehensible | worthy of blame | |
129690426 | deleterious | having a harmful effect; injurious | |
129690427 | enmity | mutual hatred or ill-will | |
129690428 | heinous | hatefully evil; abominable | |
129690429 | malfeasance | wrongdoing, misconduct | |
129690430 | malice | extreme ill-will or spite | |
129690431 | putrid | rotten | |
129690432 | rancorous | hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will | |
129690433 | toxic | poisonous | |
129690434 | archaic | characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned | |
129690435 | hackneyed | worn out through overuse; trite | |
129690436 | medieval | referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned | |
129690437 | obsolete | no longer in use; old-fashioned | |
129690438 | austere | without decoration; strict | |
129690439 | mediocrity | the state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality | |
129690440 | mundane | commonplace; ordinary | |
129690441 | ponderous | extremely dull | |
129690442 | prosaic | unimaginative; dull | |
129690443 | sedentary | not migratory; settled | |
129690444 | apprehension | anxiety or fear about the future | |
129690445 | harbinger | something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner | |
129690446 | ominous | menacing; threatening | |
129690447 | premonition | a feeling about the future | |
129690448 | timorous | timid; fearful about the future | |
129690449 | trepidation | fear, apprehension | |
129690450 | innovative | introducing something new | |
129690451 | naive | lacking sophistication or experience | |
129690452 | nascent | coming into existence; emerging | |
129690453 | novel | strikingly new or unusual | |
129690454 | novice | a beginner | |
129690455 | candor | sincerity; openness | |
129690456 | frank | open and sincere in expression; straightforward | |
129690457 | arid | describing a dry, rainless climate | |
129690458 | conflagration | a widespread fire | |
129690459 | nocturnal | of or occurring in the night; under cover of darkness | |
129690460 | sonorous | producing a deep or full sound | |
129690461 | ample | describing a large amount of something | |
129690462 | comprehensive | large in scope or content | |
129690463 | copious | plentiful; having a large quantity | |
129690464 | permeated | spread or flowing throughout | |
129690465 | pervasive | dispersed throughout | |
129690466 | prodigious | enormous | |
129690467 | replete | abundantly supplied; filled to capacity | |
129690468 | exemplary | commendable; worthy of imitation | |
129690469 | idealize | to consider perfect | |
129690470 | laudatory | giving praise | |
129690471 | paramount | of chief concern or importance | |
129690472 | venerated | highly respected | |
129690473 | catalog | (v.) to make an itemized list of | |
129690474 | facile | done or achieved with little effort; easy | |
129690475 | fastidious | possessing carefull attention to detail; difficult to please | |
129690476 | hierarchy | a group organized by rank | |
129690477 | meticulous | extremely careful and precise | |
129690478 | pragmatic | practical | |
129690479 | solvent | able to pay one's debts | |
129690480 | alienated | removed or disassociated from (friends, family, or homeland) | |
129690481 | abstract | not applied to actual objects | |
129690482 | anachronism | something out of place in time or sequence | |
129690483 | anthropomorphism | the attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature | |
129690484 | apology | defense of an idea | |
129690485 | apparatus | equipment; a group of machines | |
129690486 | apposition | a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation | |
129690487 | archetype | a perfect example; an original pattern or model | |
129690488 | brittle | easily broken when subjected to pressure | |
129690489 | chiasmus | an inversion in the second of two parallel phrases | |
129690490 | gesticulating | making gestures while speaking | |
129690491 | hypothetical | existing only as an assumption or speculation | |
129690492 | lexicon | a word book describing language with definitions; a dictionary | |
129690493 | metonymy | a type of figurative language in which one term is substituted for another term with which it is closely associated | |
129690494 | oxymoron | an apparent contradiction of terms | |
129690495 | panegyric | statement of high praise | |
129690496 | paradigm | an example or model | |
129690497 | parallelism | a grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used | |
129690498 | penitent | expressing remorse for one's misdeeds | |
129690499 | period | long, complex, grammatically correct sentence | |
129690500 | pernicious | causing great harm | |
129690501 | phenomenon | an unusual, observable event | |
129690502 | propitious | presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious | |
129690503 | rational | logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling | |
129690504 | sardonic | disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh, bitter, or caustic | |
129690505 | syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning: a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | |
129690506 | synecdoche | a form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole | |
129690507 | theoretical | lacking application or practical application | |
129690508 | truncated | shortened; cut off |
Princeton Review: AP English Language & Composition Exam Hit Parade Words 2011
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