144363452 | Auspicious | 1. favorable and prosperous (promising, propitious) | |
144363453 | Propitious | 1. favorable (auspicious) | |
144363454 | Benign | 1. gracious, kind, and gentle | |
144363455 | Benign | 2. favorable (propitious) | |
144363456 | Benign | 3. pleasant and healthful | |
144363457 | Benign | 4. in medicine, not malignant | |
144363458 | Astute | 1. keen, clever, and discerning (shrewd, smart, judicious) | |
144363459 | Compelling | 1. overpowering (forceful) | |
144363460 | Compelling | 2. persuasive (undeniable, convincing) | |
144363461 | Tenacious | 1. a firm hold | |
144363462 | Tenacious | 2. stubborn (obstinate) | |
144363463 | Tenacious | 3. strong | |
144363464 | Tenacious | 4. sticky (cohesive) | |
144363465 | Legibility | 1. the state of being readable, decipherable, or understandable | |
144363466 | Nebulous | 1. hazy, cloudy, vague (imprecise, ill-defined) | |
144363467 | Epigrammatic | 1. expressed with a terse, ingenious, wittiness about the phrase or words | |
144363468 | Amalgamate | 1. to mix (blend, combine, merge, join, fuse, mingle) | |
144363469 | Onerous | 1. oppressive and arduous (burdensome, troublesome, tiring, heavy, grievous) | |
144363470 | Sporadic | 1. irregular (intermittent, infrequent) | |
144363471 | Sporadic | 2. scattered about in time or place from the others | |
144363472 | Vacillate | 1. waver or think twice; to be indecisive (hesitate) | |
144363473 | Venerate | 1. to revere or respect | |
144363474 | Dilatory | 1. causing to slow down or delay (procrastinating) | |
144363475 | Burnish | 1. polished by friction, to become bright and smooth (buff) | |
144363476 | Calcify | 1. to become like stone, make rigid, or make solid | |
144363477 | Calcify | 2. in medicine, to change to harden or become chalky with the deposit of calcium | |
144363478 | Ameliorate | 1. to make better (improve) | |
144363479 | Adulterate | 1. to make impure | |
144363480 | Aver | 1. to positively declare to be true | |
144363481 | Gist | 1. the main point or idea (essence) | |
144363482 | Grovel | 1. to humble yourself and make apologies in great fear | |
144363483 | Grovel | 2. to physically prostrate before another | |
144363484 | Abject | 1. utterly wretched and hopeless (dismal) | |
144363485 | Abject | 2. contemptible, despicable (horrible) | |
144363486 | Abject | 3. forlorn (rejected) | |
144363487 | Hone | 1. to sharpen | |
144363488 | Hone | 2. to make better | |
144363489 | Incarcerate | 1. imprison (jail) | |
144363490 | Incarcerate | 2. confine |
The Unofficial AP English Language and Composition Vocabulary Guide
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