Edwards AP Lang Vocab 1

79243063	Abeyance	a temporary suspension of activity.
79243064	Abstinence	voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink or from doing something pleasant but not good for you.
79243065	Abstruse	hard to understand or grasp.
79243066	Adumbrate	to suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely.
79243067	Alacrity	cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness.
79243068	Ambulatory	able to walk or move about.
79243069	Apocryphal	false, spurious, of a doubtful origin.
79243070	Arbiter	a judge, one who decides.
79243071	Ascetic	hermitlike, self-denial, austere.
79243072	Assiduous	hardworking, busy, diligent.
79243073	Capricious	whimsical, fanciful, impulsive.
79243074	Castigate	to punish, chastise, criticize severely.
79243075	Chary	careful, cautious, wary.
79243076	Chicanery	deception or trickery.
79243077	Chimerical	wildly fanciful, absurd.
79243078	Circumlocution	wordy language, an indirect, roundabout expression.
79243079	Contentious	argumentative over a point, quarrelsome.
79243080	Belie	to run counter to, to show something as false.
79243081	Brook	to tolerate, to put up with something.
79243082	Debacle	a disaster or violent breakdown
79243083	Deleterious	harmful
79243084	Descry	to discern, to see something, to catch sight of
79243085	Desiccate	to dry out
79243086	Discomfit	to confuse, deceive
79243087	Doff	to take off ( usually clothing) as a sign of greeting.
79243088	Doggerel	comic, sometimes crude, informal verse
79243089	Dossier	a file of documents, letters and records
79243090	Dulcet	having a nice, agreeable melodious sound
79243091	Encomium	a eulogy or expression of high praise
79243092	Endemic	native, belonging to a specific region
79243093	Espy	to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of
79243094	Evanescent	vanishing, happening for the briefest moment.
79243095	Exemplar	an excellent model, a typical example
79243096	Exigent	urgent, demands prompt action
79243097	Extirpate	to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate
79243098	Facetious	humorous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner.
79243099	Fecund	fertile, productive, fruitful
79243100	Fusillade	a rapid outburst, spray of gunfire
79243101	Gainsay	to deny, to speak or act against
79243102	Garrulous	talkative
79243103	Halitosis	bad breath
79243104	Irascible	hot tempered, cranky
79243105	Leitmotif	a dominant or recurring theme
79243106	Levee	an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
79243107	Lope	to run at a steady, easy pace
79243108	Macerate	to soften by soaking, to cause to waste away
79243109	Malapropism	the humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word intended
79243110	Matriculate	to enroll, most particularly in college
79243111	Maudlin	overly sentimental
79243112	Mellifluous	sweetly flowing
79243113	Mordant	bitingly sarcastic, incisive, caustic in manner
79243114	Moribund	being in a dying or decaying condition
79243115	Munificent	generous
79243116	Neophyte	a beginner, a novice
79243117	Officious	unnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering
79243118	Omnivorous	eating or absorbing everything, feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
79243119	Oscillate	to swing back and forth
79243120	Ossify	to become rigid, to become set in one's ways
79243121	Palliate	to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, to ease without curing
79243122	Pallid	lacking color, wan
79243123	Panegyric	lofty praise, eulogistic writing
79243124	Parsimonious	stingy
79243125	Penury	extreme poverty
79243126	Perfidious	faithless, untrustworthy
79243127	Perfunctory	careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty
79243128	Perorate	to make a long, formal speech, to sum up a speech
79243129	Perspicacious	shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment
79243130	Petulant	cranky, ill tempered, irritable, peevish
79243131	Piquant	pungent, charmingly provocative
79243132	Prescient	having foresight
79243133	Prevaricate	to deviate from the truth
79243134	Profligate	corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagant
79243135	Propinquity	nearness in place or time, kinship
79243136	Protean	readily assuming different shapes or characters
79243137	Putrefy	to rot
79243138	Recalcitrant	stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
79243139	Recondite	hard to understand, abstruse, over one's head
79243140	Reprobate	a morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel
79243141	Reticent	restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative
79243142	Ribaldry	vulgar or indecent language
79243143	Sagacious	wise, shrewd
79243144	Salubrious	favorable to health
79243145	Scotch	to put an end to
79243146	Sinuous	winding, having many curves
79243147	Striated	marked with thin lines or grooves
79243148	Supercilious	arrogant, overbearing, condescending
79243149	Surreptitious	sneaky, secret
79243150	Sycophant	a flatterer, a self-serving yes-man
79243151	Temerity	boldness, rashness, audacity
79243152	Truculent	hostile, aggressive, savage
79243153	Vacuous	empty, lacking intelligence
79243154	Viscosity	thickness and consistency of a liquid