AP Language Set G Flashcards
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| 6339585689 | PENSIVE | wistfully thoughtful, usually marked by sadness | 0 | |
| 6339585690 | COLLOQUIAL | appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 1 | |
| 6339585691 | COLLUSION | a secret agreement between two parties to appear as adversaries as a way to defraud a third party | 2 | |
| 6339585692 | CLANDESTINE | characterized by or done in secrecy for the purpose of deception | 3 | |
| 6339585693 | SURREPTITIOUS | done by stealth; secret actions | 4 | |
| 6339585694 | PERFUNCTORY | performed merely as a routine; going through the motions only | 5 | |
| 6339585695 | MYOPIC | narrow-minded; lack of foresight | 6 | |
| 6339585696 | COMPLACENT | self-satisfied; pleased without awareness of some potential danger or defect | 7 | |
| 6339585697 | VOLATILE | tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive | 8 | |
| 6339585698 | ENDEMIC | regularly found among a particular people or in a certain area | 9 | |
| 6339585699 | GERMANE | closely or significantly related; relevant | 10 | |
| 6339585700 | EFFACE | to rub out; erase; to make inconspicuous | 11 | |
| 6339585701 | EFFUSIVE | unduly demonstrative; pouring out; overflowing | 12 | |
| 6339585702 | LACONIC | expressing much in few words; concise | 13 | |
| 6339585703 | VERBOSE | using many or too many words | 14 | |
| 6339585704 | COGENT | convincing or believable by virtue of clear or incisive presentation | 15 | |
| 6339585705 | GRATUITOUS | free; being without apparent reason, cause or justification | 16 | |
| 6339585706 | ELUCIDATE | to make clear; explain | 17 | |
| 6339585707 | VOLITION | a choice or decision made by one's own will | 18 | |
| 6339585708 | PROXIMITY | the property of being close together | 19 | |
| 6339585709 | HACKNEYED | commonplace; the constant use of a phrase or word which dulls its significance or force | 20 | |
| 6339585710 | DESPOTISM | the rule of someone with absolute authority, power, and control; tyranny | 21 | |
| 6339585711 | RECTITUDE | rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue | 22 | |
| 6339585712 | NASCENT | beginning to exist or develop | 23 | |
| 6339585713 | IMPETUS | stimulus; the force that sets something in motion | 24 | |
| 6339585714 | ENGENDER | to produce, cause, or give rise to | 25 | |
| 6339585715 | VICISSITUDE | a change or variation occurring in the course of something | 26 | |
| 6339585716 | RENEGE | fail to fulfill a promise or obligation | 27 | |
| 6339585717 | PROLIFERATE | to grow or produce by multiplication of parts (cell division); spread rapidly | 28 | |
| 6339585718 | ENERVATE | to weaken; deprive of force or strength | 29 |