All the vocabulary words from "Cracking The AP English Language and Composition Exam".
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| 98451291 | assertion | a declaration or statement | |
| 98451292 | clarity | clearness in thought or expression | |
| 98451293 | cogent | convincing; reasonable | |
| 98451294 | coherent | logically connected | |
| 98451295 | cohesive | condition of sticking together | |
| 98451296 | didactic | intended to instruct | |
| 98451297 | discourse | verbal expression or exchange; conversation | |
| 98451298 | eloquence | the ability to speak vividly or persuasively | |
| 98451299 | emphasize | to give special attention to something, to stress | |
| 98451300 | fluid | easily flowing | |
| 98451301 | implication | the act of suggesting or hinting | |
| 98451302 | lucid | easily understood; clear | |
| 98451303 | rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | |
| 98451304 | arbiter | a judge who decides a disputed issue | |
| 98451305 | biased | prejudiced | |
| 98451306 | exculpate | to free from guilt or blame | |
| 98451307 | impartial | not in favor of one side or the other, unbiased | |
| 98451308 | incontrovertible | not able to be denied or disputed | |
| 98451309 | integrity | trustworthiness; completeness | |
| 98451310 | objectivity | treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices | |
| 98451311 | penitent | expressing remorse for one's misdeeds | |
| 98451312 | plausible | seemingly valid or acceptable; credible | |
| 98451313 | substantiated | supported with proof or evidence; verified | |
| 98451314 | vindicated | freed from blame | |
| 98451315 | condescending | treating people as weak or inferior | |
| 98451316 | contemptuous | feeling hatred; scornful | |
| 98451317 | despotic | exercising absolute power; tyrannical | |
| 98451318 | dictatorial | domineering; oppressively overbearing | |
| 98451319 | disdain | (n.) contempt, scorn, (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on | |
| 98451320 | haughty | arrogant; vainly proud | |
| 98451321 | imperious | arrogantly domineering or overbearing | |
| 98451322 | patronizing | treating in a condescending manner | |
| 98451323 | convoluted | intricate; complex | |
| 98451324 | cryptic | difficult to comprehend | |
| 98451325 | futile | having no useful purpose; pointless | |
| 98451326 | impede | to slow the progress of | |
| 98451327 | obscure | (adj.) relatively unknown, (v.) to conceal or make indistinct | |
| 98451328 | quandary | a state of uncertainty or perplexity | |
| 98451329 | indolent | lazy | |
| 98451330 | insipid | uninteresting; unchallenging | |
| 98451331 | listless | lacking energy | |
| 98451332 | torpor | laziness; inactivity; dullness | |
| 98451333 | alienated | removed or disassociated from (friends, family, or homeland) | |
| 98451334 | alliance | a union of two or more groups | |
| 98451335 | disparity | inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference | |
| 98451336 | servile | submissive; like a servant | |
| 98451337 | suppressed | subdued; kept from being circulated | |
| 98451338 | embellish | to make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate | |
| 98451339 | florid | describing flowery or elaborate speech | |
| 98451340 | opulent | exhibiting a display of great wealth | |
| 98451341 | ornate | elaborately decorated | |
| 98451342 | ostentatious | describing a showy or pretentious display | |
| 98451343 | poignant | profoundly moving; touching | |
| 98451344 | ebullience | intense enthusiasm | |
| 98451345 | effusive | emotionally unrestrained; gushy | |
| 98451346 | egregious | conspicuously bad or offensive | |
| 98451347 | flagrant | extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable | |
| 98451348 | frenetic | wildly excited or active | |
| 98451349 | gratuitous | given freely; unearned; unwarranted | |
| 98451350 | superfluous | extra; unnecessary | |
| 98451351 | alleviate | to ease a pain or burden | |
| 98451352 | asylum | a place of retreat or security | |
| 98451353 | auspicious | favorable; promising | |
| 98451354 | benevolent | well-meaning; generous | |
| 98451355 | benign | kind and gentle | |
| 98451356 | mollify | to calm or soothe | |
| 98451357 | reclamation | the act of making something useful again | |
| 98451358 | sanction | to give official authorization or approval | |
| 98451359 | dubious | doubtful; of unlikely authenticity | |
| 98451360 | fabricated | made; concocted to deceive | |
| 98451361 | hypocrisy | the practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity | |
| 98451362 | slander | flase charges and malicious oral statements about someone | |
| 98451363 | spurious | not genuine | |
| 98451364 | astute | shrewd; clever | |
| 98451365 | clandestine | secretive | |
| 98451366 | coup | a brilliantly executed plan | |
| 98451367 | disingenuous | not straightforward; crafty | |
| 98451368 | ruse | a crafty tick | |
| 98451369 | stratagem | a clever trick used to deceive or outwit | |
| 98451370 | surreptitiously | done by secretive means | |
| 98451371 | wary | on guard | |
| 98451372 | wily | cunning | |
| 98451373 | ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation | |
| 98451374 | ambivalent | simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain | |
| 98451375 | apathetic | feeling or showing little emotion | |
| 98451376 | arbitrary | determined by impulse rather than reason | |
| 98451377 | capricious | impulsive and unpredictable | |
| 98451378 | equivocate | to avoid making a definite statement | |
| 98451379 | indifferent | not caring one way or the other | |
| 98451380 | spontaneous | unplanned; naturally occurring | |
| 98451381 | whimsical | subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable | |
| 98451382 | inconsequential | unimportant | |
| 98451383 | superficial | concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow | |
| 98451384 | tenuous | having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure, weak | |
| 98451385 | trivial | of little importance or significance | |
| 98451386 | assiduous | hard-working | |
| 98451387 | compelling | forceful; urgently demanding attention | |
| 98451388 | diligent | marked by painstaking effort; hard-working | |
| 98451389 | dogged | stubbornly persevering | |
| 98451390 | endure | to put up with; to survive a hardship | |
| 98451391 | intrepid | courageous; fearless | |
| 98451392 | maverick | one who is independent and resists adherence to a group | |
| 98451393 | obdurate | stubborn; inflexible | |
| 98451394 | obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action | |
| 98451395 | proliferate | to grow or increase rapidly | |
| 98451396 | tenacity | persistence | |
| 98451397 | vitality | energy; power to survive | |
| 98451398 | assimilation | to absorb; to make similar | |
| 98451399 | consensus | general agreement | |
| 98451400 | context | circumstances of a situation; environment | |
| 98451401 | derived | copied or adapted from a source | |
| 98451402 | incumbent | imposed as a duty; obligatory | |
| 98451403 | inevitable | certain to happen, unavoidable | |
| 98451404 | malleable | easily shaped or formed; easily influenced | |
| 98451405 | subdue | to restrain; to hold back | |
| 98451406 | acquired | developed or learned; not naturally occurring | |
| 98451407 | conception | the ability to form or understand an idea | |
| 98451408 | conviction | a fixed or strong belief | |
| 98451409 | dogmatic | stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs | |
| 98451410 | enlightening | informative; contributing to one's awareness | |
| 98451411 | impression | a feeling or understanding resulting from an experience | |
| 98451412 | intuition | the power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight | |
| 98451413 | misconception | an incorrect understanding or interpretation | |
| 98451414 | perception | awareness; insight | |
| 98451415 | perspective | point of view | |
| 98451416 | profound | having great depth or seriousness | |
| 98451418 | inherent | inborn; built-in | |
| 98451420 | innate | possessed from birth; inborn | |
| 98451422 | inveterate | long established; deep-rooted; habitual | |
| 98451423 | omnipotent | all-powerful | |
| 98451425 | proximity | closeness | |
| 98451427 | elusive | difficult to capture, as in something actually fleeting | |
| 98451428 | emigrate | to leave one country or region and settle in another | |
| 98451430 | transient | passing away with time; passing from one place to another | |
| 98451432 | transitory | short-lived or temporary | |
| 98451433 | affable | easy-going; friendly | |
| 98451435 | amenable | responsive; agreeable | |
| 98451436 | camaraderie | good will between friends | |
| 98451438 | cordial | friendly; sincere | |
| 98451440 | facetious | playfully humorous | |
| 98451441 | impinge | hinder; interfere with | |
| 98451442 | lament | express grief for; mourn | |
| 98451443 | melancholy | sadness; depression | |
| 98451444 | sanction | an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country | |
| 98451445 | truncated | shortened; cut off | |
| 98451446 | aesthetic | having to do with the appreciation of beauty | |
| 98451447 | anthology | a collection of literary pieces | |
| 98451448 | contemporary | current, modern; from the same time | |
| 98451449 | dilettante | one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge | |
| 98451450 | eclectic | made up of a variety of sources or styles | |
| 98451451 | excerpt | a selected part of a passage or scene | |
| 98451452 | genre | describing a category or artistic endeavor | |
| 98451453 | medley | an assortment or a mixture, especially of musical pieces | |
| 98451454 | mural | a large painting applied direction to a wall or ceiling surface | |
| 98451455 | narrative | (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story, (n.) a story | |
| 98451456 | parody | an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect | |
| 98451457 | realism | artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy | |
| 98451458 | virtuoso | a tremendously skilled artist | |
| 98451459 | decorous | proper; marked by good taste | |
| 98451460 | equanimity | the quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure | |
| 98451461 | modest | quiet or humble in manner or appearance | |
| 98451462 | propriety | appropriateness of behavior | |
| 98451463 | prudent | exercising good judgment or common sense | |
| 98451464 | serene | calm | |
| 98451465 | staid | unemotional; serious | |
| 98451466 | stoic | indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive | |
| 98451467 | condemn | to express strong disapproval of; denounce | |
| 98451468 | discredit | to cause to be doubted | |
| 98451469 | disparage | to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle | |
| 98451470 | pejorative | describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone | |
| 98451471 | plagiarism | the act of passing off the ideas of writing of another as one's own | |
| 98451472 | vilify | to make vicious statements about | |
| 98451473 | brusque | rudely abrupt | |
| 98451474 | caustic | bitingly sarcastic or witty | |
| 98451475 | fractious | quarrelsome; unruly | |
| 98451476 | incorrigible | unable to be reformed | |
| 98451477 | ingrate | an ungrateful person | |
| 98451478 | insolent | insulting in manner or speech | |
| 98451479 | notorious | known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous | |
| 98451480 | pugnacious | combative; belligerent | |
| 98451481 | reprehensible | worthy of blame | |
| 98451482 | brittle | easily broken when subjected to pressure | |
| 98451483 | deleterious | having a harmful effect; injurious | |
| 98451484 | enmity | mutual hatred or ill-will | |
| 98451485 | heinous | hatefully evil; abominable | |
| 98451486 | malfeasance | wrongdoing, misconduct | |
| 98451487 | malice | extreme ill-will or spite | |
| 98451488 | putrid | rotten | |
| 98451489 | rancorous | hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will | |
| 98451490 | toxic | poisonous | |
| 98451491 | archaic | characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned | |
| 98451492 | hackneyed | worn out through overuse; trite | |
| 98451493 | medieval | referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned | |
| 98451494 | obsolete | no longer in use; old-fashioned | |
| 98451495 | austere | without decoration; strict | |
| 98451496 | mediocrity | the state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality | |
| 98451497 | mundane | commonplace; ordinary | |
| 98451498 | ponderous | extremely dull | |
| 98451499 | prosaic | unimaginative; dull | |
| 98451500 | sedentary | not migratory; settled | |
| 98451501 | apprehension | anxiety or fear about the future | |
| 98451502 | harbinger | something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner | |
| 98451503 | ominous | menacing; threatening | |
| 98451504 | premonition | a feeling about the future | |
| 98451505 | timorous | timid; fearful about the future | |
| 98451506 | trepidation | uncertainty; apprehension | |
| 98451507 | innovative | introducing something new | |
| 98451508 | naive | lacking sophistication | |
| 98451509 | nascent | coming into existence; emerging | |
| 98451510 | novel | strikingly new or unusual | |
| 98451511 | novice | a beginning | |
| 98451512 | candor | sincerity; openness | |
| 98451513 | frank | open and sincere in expression; straightforward | |
| 98451514 | arid | describing a dry, rainless climate | |
| 98451515 | conflagration | a widespread fire | |
| 98451516 | nocturnal | of or occurring in the night | |
| 98451517 | sonorous | producing a deep or full sound | |
| 98451518 | ample | describing a large amount of something | |
| 98451519 | comprehensive | large in scope or content | |
| 98451520 | copious | plentiful; having a large quantity | |
| 98451521 | permeated | spread or flowing throughout | |
| 98451522 | pervasive | dispersed throughout | |
| 98451523 | prodigious | enormous | |
| 98451524 | replete | abundantly supplied; filled to capacity | |
| 98451525 | exemplary | commendable; worthy of imitation | |
| 98451526 | idealize | to consider perfect | |
| 98451527 | laudatory | giving praise | |
| 98451528 | paramount | of chief concern or importance | |
| 98451529 | venerated | highly respected | |
| 98451530 | catalog | (v.) to make an itemized list of | |
| 98451531 | facile | done or achieved with little effort; easy | |
| 98451532 | fastidious | possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please | |
| 98451533 | hierarchy | a group organized by rank | |
| 98451534 | meticulous | extremely careful and precise | |
| 98451535 | pragmatic | practical | |
| 98451536 | solvent | able to pay one's debts | |
| 98451537 | abstract | not applied to actual objects | |
| 98451538 | anachronism | something out of place in time or sequence | |
| 98451539 | anthropomorphism | the attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature | |
| 98451540 | apology | defense of an idea | |
| 98451541 | apposition | a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation | |
| 98451542 | archetype | a perfect example; an original pattern or model | |
| 98451543 | apparatus | equipment; a group of machines | |
| 98451544 | chiasmus | an inversion in the second of two parallel phrases | |
| 98451545 | gesticulating | making gestures while speaking | |
| 98451546 | hypothetical | existing only as an assumption or speculation | |
| 98451547 | lexicon | a word book describing language with definitions; a dictionary | |
| 98451548 | metonymy | a type of figurative language in which one term is substituted for another term with which it is closely associated | |
| 98451549 | oxymoron | an apparent contradiction of terms | |
| 98451550 | panegyric | statement of high praise | |
| 98451551 | paradigm | an example or model | |
| 98451552 | parallelism | a grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used | |
| 98451553 | period (periodic sentence) | long, complex, grammatically correct sentence | |
| 98451554 | pernicious | causing great harm | |
| 98451555 | phenomenon | an unusual, observable event | |
| 98451556 | propitious | presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious | |
| 98451557 | rational | logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling | |
| 98451558 | sardonic | disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh, bitter, or caustic | |
| 98451559 | syllogism (syllogistic reasoning) | a form of deductive reason: a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | |
| 98451560 | synecdoche | a form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole | |
| 98451561 | theoretical | lacking application or practical application |
