5055161910 | apotheosis | (n) elevation to godhood or a divine state; an ideal example | 0 | |
5055161911 | auspicious | (adj) favorable; fortunate; conducive to something | 1 | |
5055161912 | debacle | (n) an overwhelming defeat, fiasco; a complete collapse or failure | 2 | |
5055161913 | contiguous | (adj) side by side, touching; near; sharing a common border | 3 | |
5055161914 | incendiary | (adj) causing a fire; arousing strife, rebellion;(n) an arsonist; inciting anger | 4 | |
5055161915 | inimitable | (adj) not capable of being changed or imitated | 5 | |
5055161916 | malfeasance | (n) misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official; ethical or criminal | 6 | |
5055161917 | platonic | (adj) marked by the absence of physical attraction; practiced in theory, but not practiced in reality | 7 | |
5055161918 | pontificate | (v) to speak pompously or dogmatically* | 8 | |
5055161919 | proletariat | (n) the lower and working class | 9 | |
5055161920 | prurient | (adj) lustful, exhibiting lewd desires * | 10 | |
5055161921 | refractory | (adj) stubbornly disobedient, hard to manage | 11 | |
5055161922 | specious | (adj) seemingly true but actually false; deceptively attractive | 12 | |
5055161923 | tenacious | (adj) resolute; holding firm to a purpose | 13 | |
5055161924 | vociferous | (adj) loud and noisy; compelling attention | 14 | |
5055161925 | aesthetic | (adj) concerning the appreciation of beauty | 15 | |
5055161926 | convergence | (n) the state of separate elements joining or coming together | 16 | |
5055161927 | impute | (v) to credit, attribute; lay blame or responsibility for (sometimes falsely) | 17 | |
5055161928 | parched | (adj) dried up, shriveled; thirsty; sere | 18 | |
5055161929 | perfidious | (adj) willing to betray one's trust; disloyal | 19 | |
5055161930 | rancorous | (adj) bitter and resentful; usually characterized by long standing hate | 20 | |
5055161931 | sagacity | (n) wisdom, soundness of perspective; wiseness | 21 | |
5055161932 | venerable | (adj) deserving of respect because of age or achievement | 22 | |
5055161933 | evanescent | (adj) vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy | 23 | |
5195692792 | abnegation | (n) the act of denial; relinquishing or giving up a right, possession, etc.; denying one's self | 24 | |
5195692793 | acrid | (adj) sharp or bitter to the taste or smell, pungent; exceedingly caustic | 25 | |
5195692794 | apex | (n) top or highest point of something (v) to reach a high point | 26 | |
5195692795 | credulity | (n) tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true; gullibility | 27 | |
5195692796 | dross | (n) something regarded as worthless; rubbish | 28 | |
5195692797 | fulminate | (v) to express vehement protest; to blow up or explode | 29 | |
5195692798 | gravitas | (n) dignity, seriousness, or solemnity of manner. | 30 | |
5195692799 | hegemony | (n) leadership or dominance, especially by one country/social group over others. | 31 | |
5195692800 | insuperable | (adj) impossible to overcome- usually of an obstacle | 32 | |
5195692801 | jejune | (adj) naive, simplistic, and superficial, dry and uninteresting | 33 | |
5195692802 | dubious | (adj) hesitating or doubting; suspicious | 34 | |
5195692803 | menagerie | (n) a strange or diverse collection of animals for display; or of people | 35 | |
5195692804 | truculent | (adj) savagely brutal; eager to fight | 36 | |
5195692805 | verisimilitude | (n) appearance of being true or real | 37 | |
5195692806 | viscous | (adj) sticky or syrupy in consistency | 38 | |
5195692807 | maxim | (n) an axiom; common fact or universal truth; short guideline of behavior | 39 | |
5195692808 | mutable | (adj) liable to change | 40 | |
5195692809 | abstinence | (n) practice of restraining oneself from indulging in something. | 41 | |
5195692810 | disdain | (n) the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or repeat; contempt; (v) to scorn | 42 | |
5195692811 | pretension | (n) a claim or the assertion of a claim to something; behavior meant to impress | 43 | |
5242743787 | acerbic | (adj) biting, bitter in tone or taste, sharp or sour in taste | 44 | |
5242743788 | androgynous | (adj) having both male and female characteristics | 45 | |
5242743789 | augur | (n) soothsayer; prophet; talkative person; (v) to divine or predict, as from omens; to talk excessively - supernatural context | 46 | |
5242743790 | beatitude | (n) blessedness; state of bliss | 47 | |
5242743791 | diaspora | (n) a forced emigration of people from their homeland | 48 | |
5242743792 | discursive | (adj.) passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving | 49 | |
5242743793 | disseminate | (v) to scatter or spread widely | 50 | |
5242743794 | extemporaneous | (adj) made or delivered on the spur of the moment | 51 | |
5242743795 | intractable | (adj) difficult to manipulate, unmanageable; stubborm | 52 | |
5242743796 | maladroit | (adj) clumsy; unskillful | 53 | |
5242743797 | politic | (adj) prudent, shrewdly conceived and developed; artful, expedient; judicious | 54 | |
5242743798 | requiem | (n) a religious service or song for the deceased or lost | 55 | |
5242743799 | sinecure | (n) a position requiring little or no work; an easy job | 56 | |
5242743800 | tendentious | (adj) biased in point of view | 57 | |
5242743801 | traduce | (v) to slander someone's reputation | 58 | |
5242743802 | abridge | (v) to make shorter; condense | 59 | |
5242743803 | benign | (adj) gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; harmless | 60 | |
5242743804 | dastardly | (adv) cowardly, wicked, cruel, and treacherous | 61 | |
5242743805 | prognosticate | (v) to predict or foretell a future event (scientific way) | 62 | |
5242743806 | relegate | (v) to place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish | 63 | |
5303136019 | bon mot | (n) a witty remark or saying | 64 | |
5303136020 | extemporize | (v) perform without preparation; to improvise | 65 | |
5303136021 | digress | (v) to go off-topic/leave the main subject when speaking or writing | 66 | |
5303136022 | furlough | (n) a leave of absence; (v) going on a leave of absence | 67 | |
5303136023 | misogyny | (n) hatred of women | 68 | |
5303136024 | atavistic | (adj) going back/reverting to behavior found in a remote ancestor | 69 | |
5303136025 | plenary | (adj) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members | 70 | |
5303136026 | plutocrat | (n) a member of the controlling upper-class; derogatory term | 71 | |
5303136027 | potboiler | (n) a poorly done artistic work, often for quick profit | 72 | |
5303136028 | redoubtable | (adj) inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent; formidable | 73 | |
5303136029 | stolid | (adj) expressing little sensitivity, unemotional | 74 | |
5303136030 | succor | (n) relief, help in time of distress or want | 75 | |
5303136031 | travesty | (n) a grossly inferior imitation of something should be serious and revered | 76 | |
5303136032 | vignette | (n) a short, descriptive literary sketch | 77 | |
5303136033 | xeric | (adj) dry, lacking moisture; relating to dry climate | 78 | |
5303136034 | misandry | (n) hatred of males | 79 | |
5303136035 | sardonic | (adj) grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic | 80 | |
5303136036 | casus belli | (n) an event or action that justifies or allegedly justifies a war or conflict | 81 | |
5303136037 | codify | (v) to organize something (such as laws or rules) into a system | 82 | |
5303136038 | compunction | (n) remorse, regret | 83 | |
5360035091 | abstract | (adj) existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. (n) a summary before the work--especially essays and articles | 84 | |
5360035092 | benevolent | (adj) generous; kind; doing good deeds | 85 | |
5360035093 | capricious | (adj) has sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior. | 86 | |
5360035094 | complacent | (adj) showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements, usually to a fault. | 87 | |
5360035095 | conciliatory | (adj) making less hostile, appeasing, attempting to make the peace; compromising | 88 | |
5360035096 | buttress | (v) to support, prop up, strengthen; (n) a supporting structure | 89 | |
5360035097 | misanthropy | (n) hatred or distrust of mankind | 90 | |
5360035098 | irrefrangible | (adj) cannot be broken or violated | 91 | |
5360035099 | obnubilate | (v) to cloud over; becloud; obscure. | 92 | |
5360035100 | improvident | (adj) not thrifty; failing to plan ahead; not showing foresight | 93 | |
5360035101 | obdurate | (adj) stubborn, unyielding | 94 | |
5360035102 | crepuscular | (adj) active at dawn and dusk; pertaining to twilight | 95 | |
5360035103 | plausible | (adj) appearing true, reasonable, or fair | 96 | |
5360035104 | morose | (adj) having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable | 97 | |
5360035105 | reiterate | (v) to say again for emphasis, repeat | 98 | |
5360035106 | ostentatious | (adj) characterized by showy or intended to impress | 99 | |
5360035107 | despotic | (adj) exercising absolute power; tyrannical | 100 | |
5360035108 | impervious | (adj) not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance; impenetrable | 101 | |
5360035109 | gait | (n) a manner of walking, stepping, or running | 102 | |
5360035110 | euphony | (n) a pleasant, harmonious sound | 103 | |
5408018859 | repudiate | (v) to refuse to accept or be associated with; to deny the truth or validity of | 104 | |
5408018860 | orthodoxy | (n) authorized or generally accepted theory, doctrine, or practice | 105 | |
5408018861 | fatuous | (adj) silly or pointless | 106 | |
5408018862 | execrate | (v) to feel or express great loathing for; to curse | 107 | |
5408018863 | ossified | (v) to turn into bone or bony tissues; to cease developing | 108 | |
5408018864 | mottled | (v) to mark with spots or smears of color | 109 | |
5408018865 | obliquely | (adv) not in a direct way; indirectly; vaguely* | 110 | |
5408018866 | insidious | (adj) proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects | 111 | |
5408018867 | amelioration | (n) the act of making something better; improvement | 112 | |
5408018868 | dappled | (adj) marked with spots or rounded patches | 113 | |
5408018869 | protuberant | (adj) protruding; bulging | 114 | |
5408018870 | proliferate | (adj) to increase in numbers or exponentially increase | 115 | |
5408018871 | febrile | (adj) having or showing the symptoms of a fever | 116 | |
5408018872 | ruminant | (n) a contemplative person; a person given to meditation (adj) contemplative | 117 | |
5408018873 | desultorily | (adv) lacking in consistency; wander; with no aim | 118 | |
5408018874 | solipsism | (n) the view/theory that the self is all that can be known to exist | 119 | |
5408018875 | utilitarian | (adj) characterized by believing in an action is right or morally just, then it must be good for all of the people | 120 | |
5408018876 | ineffable | (adj) too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words | 121 | |
5408018877 | deprecatory | (adj) expressing disapproval; apologetic or appeasing | 122 | |
5408018878 | sonorous | (adj) a person's voice or sound that is imposingly deep and full. Capable of producing a deep or ringing sound. | 123 | |
5493012134 | labyrinthine | (adj) intricate and confusing | 124 | |
5493012135 | erasure | (n) the removal of all traces of something | 125 | |
5493012136 | niggling | (v) to find fault with someone in a petty way; to cause slight annoyance in a persistent way | 126 | |
5493012137 | effigies | (n) a crude representation in order to be damaged or destroyed out of protest | 127 | |
5493012138 | imposture | (n) instance of deceiving another by imitating someone else. | 128 | |
5493012139 | oligarchies | (n) a small group controlling over a country or a community | 129 | |
5493012140 | melancholy | (n) a feeling of sadness or poignant feeling of sorrow | 130 | |
5493012141 | palatial | (adj) spacious and splendid | 131 | |
5493012142 | incipient | (adj) in its initial stage; beginning to develop | 132 | |
5493012143 | pundit | (n) an expert (commonly called on) | 133 | |
5493012144 | furtive | (adj) secretive; stealthy | 134 | |
5493012145 | interminable | (adj) endless | 135 | |
5493012146 | perilously | (adv) dangerously | 136 | |
5493012147 | dislocate | (v) to put out of a place or take out of order | 137 | |
5493012148 | disquieting | (adj) causing uneasiness or worry | 138 | |
5493012149 | panegyric | (n) copy psat definition. Speech of writing that praises someone | 139 | |
5493012150 | tachycardia | (n) condition of an abnormal heart beat | 140 | |
5493012151 | gale | (n) strong wind or storm | 141 | |
5493012152 | muckraker | (n) a person (usually a journalist) that seeks to stir up controversy | 142 | |
5493012153 | witch-hunt | (n) a process where one is seeking to slander someone | 143 | |
5583488951 | innuendo | (n) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense) | 144 | |
5583488952 | ludicrous | (adj) ridiculous, laughable, absurd | 145 | |
5583488953 | provocative | (adj) tending to produce a strong feeling or response; arousing desire or appetite; irritating, annoying | 146 | |
5583488954 | prodigality | (n) wasteful extravagance in spending | 147 | |
5583488955 | erroneous | (adj) incorrect, containing mistakes * | 148 | |
5583488956 | scrutinize | (v) to examine in careful detail | 149 | |
5583488957 | corpulent | (adj) fat; having a large, bulky body | 150 | |
5583488958 | clairvoyant | (adj) supernaturally perceptive; (n) one who possesses extrasensory powers, seer | 151 | |
5583488959 | impetuous | (adj) quick to act without thinking * | 152 | |
5583488960 | propensity | (n) a natural inclination or predilection toward; tendency | 153 | |
5583488961 | regressive | (adj) moving in a backward direction | 154 | |
5583488962 | resilient | (adj) able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly | 155 | |
5583488963 | sedentary | (adj) inactive; remaining in one place | 156 | |
5583488964 | wanton | (adj) reckless; heartless, unjustifiable; loose in morals; (n) a spoiled, pampered person; one with low morals | 157 | |
5583488965 | ubiquitous | (adj) existing everywhere at the same time; omniscient * | 158 | |
5583488966 | zenith | (n) the highest point reached by celestial objects, culminating point | 159 | |
5583488967 | prevaricate | (v) to lie or deviate from the truth | 160 | |
5583488968 | stentorian | (adj) extremely loud and powerful | 161 | |
5583488969 | quiescent | (adj) inactive; at rest * | 162 | |
5583488970 | repose | (v) to rest; lie; place; (n) relaxation, peace of mind, calmness | 163 |
AP Language Vocabulary #2 Flashcards
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