AP English Vocab

159164684	abjure	to render under oath, to repudiate, to give up
159164685	abrogate	to abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority
159164686	abstemious	sparingly used or consumed, restricted to bear necessities
159164687	acumen	quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight
159164688	antebellum	belong to a period before a war, especially the American Civil War
159164689	auspicious	attended by favorable circumstances, marked by prosperity or success
159164690	belie	to misrepresent; to contradict
159164691	bellicose	warlike in manner; having or showing a disposition to fight
159164692	bowdlerize	to modify or omit parts considered offensive
159164693	chicanery	deception by trickery or sophistry
159164694	chromosome	a strand of DNA that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life
159164695	churlish	surly, difficult to work with, intractable
159164696	circumlocution	the use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language
159164697	circumnavigate	to go around; circumvent
159164698	deciduous	falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth
159164699	deleterious	having a harmful effect
159164700	diffident	marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy, timid
159164701	enervate	to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of
159164702	enfranchise	to endow with rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote
159164703	epiphany	a sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something
159164704	equinox	either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and a day and night are of equal length
159164705	euro	the basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries
159164706	evanescent	vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor
159164707	expurgate	to remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material before publication
159164708	facetious	given to wit and good humor; cleverly amusing in tone
159164709	fatuous	vacuously, smugly and unconsciously foolish, delusive, unreal
159164710	feckless	lacking purpose or vitality, feeble or ineffective, careless and irresponsible
159164711	fiduciary	of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another
159164712	filibuster	a tactic to delay or obstruct legislation by making long speeches
159164713	gamete	a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
159164714	gauche	lacking social polish; tactless
159164715	gerrymander	to divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections