AP english vocab
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| sly, clever | ||
| marked by secrecy | ||
| giving false appearance, insincere | ||
| roundabout path, trickery, trick | ||
| trick in war for deceiving enemy, cleverly contrived trick | ||
| acting in a stealthy way | ||
| watchful, be on guard | ||
| crafty, cunning | ||
| questionable, fraught with uncertainty or doubt | ||
| formed or conceived by the imagination | ||
| insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have | ||
| an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | ||
| intended to deceive | ||
| relieve from stress/pain | ||
| crazy house, place to keep special people | ||
| bright, good outlook | ||
| kind, GENEROUS | ||
| friendly, kind | ||
| to calm | ||
| make something that's unusable into something usable | ||
| authority approving something | ||
| intense enthusiasm | ||
| emotionally unrestrained; gushy | ||
| conspicuously bad or offensive | ||
| extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable | ||
| wildly excited or active | ||
| given freely; unearned; unwarranted; without apparent reason | ||
| extra; unnecessary | ||
| to make beautiful | ||
| flowery in speech | ||
| wealthy | ||
| to furnish, excessively decorating | ||
| excessive display, overly showy | ||
| deeply affecting | ||
| removed or disassociated from | ||
| union of two or more groups | ||
| difference or inequality in age, rank, degree | ||
| submissive or like a servant | ||
| subdued, kept down | ||
| inactive, slothful, lazy | ||
| without interesting qualities, boring | ||
| spiritless, showing no interest, lacking energy | ||
| sluggish inactivity | ||
| twisted, complicated, complex, intricate | ||
| hidden meaning, not recognized (difficult to comprehend) | ||
| completely ineffective, pointless | ||
| interfere with or to slow progress | ||
| not clearly seen or understood, not well known, to conceal or indistinct | ||
| state of perplexity or doubt | ||
| assuming an air of superiority, descend to less formal level, treating people as inferior | ||
| feeling lack of respect or act of despising (hatred) | ||
| characteristic of ruler with absolute power | ||
| relating to oppressive to or arrogantly overbearing towards others | ||
| to look on with scorn, feeling of contempt for someone | ||
| blatantly and disdainfully proud | ||
| marked by arrogant assurance, like dictatorial | ||
| treating haughtily or in condescending way | ||
| a person with power to decide or dispute | ||
| to give settled and often prejudiced outlook to | ||
| to clear from alleged fault or guilt | ||
| treating or affecting all equally | ||
| not open to question | ||
| trustworthiness | ||
| equal, treating facts without personal feelings or prejudice | ||
| to cause regret; person who repents of sin | ||
| superficially fair, seemingly valid, but often specious; worthy of belief | ||
| to give substance or form to; proved with evidence, verified | ||
| to set free, establish the truth by freeing of blame | ||
| the act of stating positively and often forcefully | ||
| quality of being clear | ||
| having power to compel or constrain | ||
| logically ordered or integrated | ||
| exhibiting state of sticking together | ||
| designed or intended to teach | ||
| capacity of orderly thought or procedure; argument | ||
| discourse marked by persuasiveness | ||
| to pronounce in firm manner | ||
| changing readily; shifting | ||
| suggest as naturally to be inferred or understood | ||
| easily understood; completely comprehensible | ||
| study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) | ||
| unimportant | ||
| on the surface (bruise on knee, heidi montag) | ||
| shaky ex: the class's grasp on irony is tenuous | ||
| minute, minor, unimportant | ||
| hard working | ||
| forceful,; urgently demanding attention | ||
| painstaking effort, hard-working | ||
| stubbornly persevering | ||
| put up with; survive hardship | ||
| courageous; fearless | ||
| independent individual that does not go along with party | ||
| stubborn, hard-hearted | ||
| extreme resistance to change | ||
| grow or increase rapidly | ||
| state of being persistent | ||
| capacity to live or develop | ||
| open to several possible meanings; meaning isn't clear | ||
| uncertain because can't make choice | ||
| not interested, no emotion | ||
| individual will without restriction | ||
| led by whim; erratic; unpredictable | ||
| use unclear expressions to mislead | ||
| without interest, impartial | ||
| sudden impulse, self-acting | ||
| unpredictable, fanciful notions, erratic |