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The Unofficial AP English Language and Composition Vocabulary Guide

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144363452Auspicious1. favorable and prosperous (promising, propitious)
144363453Propitious1. favorable (auspicious)
144363454Benign1. gracious, kind, and gentle
144363455Benign2. favorable (propitious)
144363456Benign3. pleasant and healthful
144363457Benign4. in medicine, not malignant
144363458Astute1. keen, clever, and discerning (shrewd, smart, judicious)
144363459Compelling1. overpowering (forceful)
144363460Compelling2. persuasive (undeniable, convincing)
144363461Tenacious1. a firm hold
144363462Tenacious2. stubborn (obstinate)
144363463Tenacious3. strong
144363464Tenacious4. sticky (cohesive)
144363465Legibility1. the state of being readable, decipherable, or understandable
144363466Nebulous1. hazy, cloudy, vague (imprecise, ill-defined)
144363467Epigrammatic1. expressed with a terse, ingenious, wittiness about the phrase or words
144363468Amalgamate1. to mix (blend, combine, merge, join, fuse, mingle)
144363469Onerous1. oppressive and arduous (burdensome, troublesome, tiring, heavy, grievous)
144363470Sporadic1. irregular (intermittent, infrequent)
144363471Sporadic2. scattered about in time or place from the others
144363472Vacillate1. waver or think twice; to be indecisive (hesitate)
144363473Venerate1. to revere or respect
144363474Dilatory1. causing to slow down or delay (procrastinating)
144363475Burnish1. polished by friction, to become bright and smooth (buff)
144363476Calcify1. to become like stone, make rigid, or make solid
144363477Calcify2. in medicine, to change to harden or become chalky with the deposit of calcium
144363478Ameliorate1. to make better (improve)
144363479Adulterate1. to make impure
144363480Aver1. to positively declare to be true
144363481Gist1. the main point or idea (essence)
144363482Grovel1. to humble yourself and make apologies in great fear
144363483Grovel2. to physically prostrate before another
144363484Abject1. utterly wretched and hopeless (dismal)
144363485Abject2. contemptible, despicable (horrible)
144363486Abject3. forlorn (rejected)
144363487Hone1. to sharpen
144363488Hone2. to make better
144363489Incarcerate1. imprison (jail)
144363490Incarcerate2. confine

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