AP Lang Vocab Semester 1
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| 203605997 | Abeyance | (n) a temporary suspension of activity | |
| 203605998 | Abstinence | (n) voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink, or from doing something pleasant but not good for you | |
| 203605999 | Abstruse | (adj) hard to understand or grasp | |
| 203606000 | Adumbrate | (v) to suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely | |
| 203606001 | Alacrity | (adj) cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness | |
| 203606002 | Ambulatory | (adj) able to walk or move about | |
| 203606003 | Apocryphal | (adj) false, spurious, of doubtful origin | |
| 203606004 | Arbiter | (n) a judge, one who decides | |
| 203606005 | Ascetic | (adj) hermit-like, self-denial, austere | |
| 203606006 | Assiduous | (adj) hard-working, busy, diligent | |
| 203606007 | Belie | (v) to run counter to, to show something as false | |
| 203606008 | Brook | (v) to tolerate, to put up with something | |
| 203606009 | Capricious | (adj) whimsical, fanciful, impulsive | |
| 203606010 | Castigate | (v) to punish, chastise, criticize severely | |
| 203606011 | Chary | (adj) careful, cautious, wary | |
| 203606012 | Chicanery | (n) deception or trickery | |
| 203606013 | Chimerical | (adj) wildly fanciful, absurd | |
| 203606014 | Circumlocution | (n) wordy language, an indirect, roundabout expression | |
| 203606015 | Contentious | (adj) argumentative over a point, quarrelsome | |
| 203606016 | Debacle | (n) a disaster or violent breakdown | |
| 203606017 | Deleterious | (adj) harmful | |
| 203606018 | Descry | (v) to discern, to see something, to catch sight of | |
| 203606019 | Desiccate | (v) to dry out | |
| 203606020 | Discomfit | (v) to confuse, deceive | |
| 203606021 | Doff | (v) to take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting | |
| 203606022 | Doggerel | (n) comic, sometimes crude, informal verse | |
| 203606023 | Dossier | (n) a file of documents, letters and records | |
| 203606024 | Dulcet | (adj) having a nice, agreeable, melodious sound | |
| 203606025 | Encomium | (n) a eulogy or expression of high praise | |
| 203606026 | Endemic | (adj) native, belonging to a specific region | |
| 203606027 | Espy | (v) to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of | |
| 203606028 | Evanescent | (adj) vanishing, happening for the briefest moment | |
| 203606029 | Exemplar | (n) an excellent model, a typical example | |
| 203606030 | Exigent | (adj) urgent, demands prompt action | |
| 203606031 | Extirpate | (v) to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate | |
| 203606032 | Facetious | (adj) humorous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner | |
| 203606033 | Fecund | (adj) fertile, productive, fruitful | |
| 203606034 | Fusillade | (n) a rapid outburst, spray of gunfire | |
| 203606035 | Gainsay | (v) to deny, to speak or act against | |
| 203606036 | Garrulous | (adj) talkative | |
| 203606037 | Halitosis | (n) bad breath | |
| 203606038 | Irascible | (adj) hot-tempered, cranky | |
| 203606039 | Leitmotif | (n) a dominant or recurring theme | |
| 203606040 | Levee | (n) an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding | |
| 203606041 | Lope | (v) to run at a steady, easy pace | |
| 203606042 | Macerate | (v) to soften by soaking, to cause to waste away | |
| 203606043 | Malapropism | (n) the humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word intended | |
| 203606044 | Matriculate | (v) to enroll, most particularly in college | |
| 203606045 | Maudlin | (adj) overly sentimental | |
| 203606046 | Mellifluous | (adj) sweetly flowing | |
| 203606047 | Mordant | (adj) bitingly sarcastic, incisive, caustic in manner | |
| 203606048 | Moribund | (adj) being in a dying or decaying condition | |
| 203606049 | Munificent | (adj) generous | |
| 203606050 | Neophyte | (n) a beginner, a novice | |
| 203606051 | Officious | (adj) unnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering | |
| 203606052 | Omnivorous | (adj) eating or absorbing everything, feeding on both animal and vegetable substances | |
| 203606053 | Oscillate | (v) to swing back and forth | |
| 203606054 | Ossify | (v) to become rigid, to become set in one's ways | |
| 203606055 | Palliate | (v) to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, to ease without curing | |
| 203606056 | Pallid | (adj) lacking color, wan | |
| 203606057 | Panegyric | (n) lofty praise, eulogistic writing | |
| 203606058 | Parsimonious | (adj) stingy | |
| 203606059 | Penury | (n) extreme poverty | |
| 203606060 | Perfidious | (adj) faithless, untrustworthy | |
| 203606061 | Perfunctory | (adj) careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty | |
| 203606062 | Perorate | (v) to make a long, formal speech, to sum up a speech | |
| 203606063 | Perspicacious | (adj) shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment | |
| 203606064 | Petulant | (adj) cranky, ill-tempered, irritable, peevish | |
| 203606065 | Piquant | (adj) pungent, charmingly provocative | |
| 203606066 | Prescient | (adj) having foresight | |
| 203606067 | Prevaricate | (v) to deviate from the truth | |
| 203606068 | Profligate | (adj) corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagant | |
| 203606069 | Propinquity | (adj) nearness in place or time, kinship | |
| 203606070 | Protean | (adj) readily assuming different shapes or characters | |
| 203606071 | Putrefy | (v) to rot | |
| 203606072 | Recalcitrant | (adj) stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority | |
| 203606073 | Recondite | (adj) hard to understand, abstruse, over one's head | |
| 203606074 | Reprobate | (n) a morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel | |
| 203606075 | Reticent | (adj) restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative | |
| 203606076 | Ribald | (adj) vulgar or indecent language | |
| 203606077 | Sagacious | (adj) wise, shrewd | |
| 203606078 | Salubrious | (adj) favorable to health | |
| 203606079 | Scotch | (v) to put an end to | |
| 203606080 | Sinuous | (adj) winding, having many curves | |
| 203606081 | Striated | (adj) marked with thin lines or grooves | |
| 203606082 | Supercilious | (adj) arrogant, overbearing, condescending | |
| 203606083 | Surreptitious | (adj) sneaky, secret | |
| 203606084 | Sycophant | (n) a flatterer, a self-serving yes-man | |
| 228466646 | Temerity | (adj) boldness, rashness, audacity | |
| 228466647 | Vacuous | (adj) empty, lacking intelligence | |
| 228466648 | Truculent | (adj) hostile, aggressive, savage | |
| 228466649 | Viscosity | (adj) a thick or sticky consistency of a liquid |