AP Language Set G Flashcards
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| 6593286110 | PENSIVE | wistfully thoughtful, usually marked by sadness | 0 | |
| 6593286111 | COLLOQUIAL | appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 1 | |
| 6593286112 | COLLUSION | a secret agreement between two parties to appear as adversaries as a way to defraud a third party | 2 | |
| 6593286113 | CLANDESTINE | characterized by or done in secrecy for the purpose of deception | 3 | |
| 6593286114 | SURREPTITIOUS | done by stealth; secret actions | 4 | |
| 6593286115 | PERFUNCTORY | performed merely as a routine; going through the motions only | 5 | |
| 6593286116 | MYOPIC | narrow-minded; lack of foresight | 6 | |
| 6593286117 | COMPLACENT | self-satisfied; pleased without awareness of some potential danger or defect | 7 | |
| 6593286118 | VOLATILE | tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive | 8 | |
| 6593286119 | ENDEMIC | regularly found among a particular people or in a certain area | 9 | |
| 6593286120 | GERMANE | closely or significantly related; relevant | 10 | |
| 6593286121 | EFFACE | to rub out; erase; to make inconspicuous | 11 | |
| 6593286122 | EFFUSIVE | unduly demonstrative; pouring out; overflowing | 12 | |
| 6593286123 | LACONIC | expressing much in few words; concise | 13 | |
| 6593286124 | VERBOSE | using many or too many words | 14 | |
| 6593286125 | COGENT | convincing or believable by virtue of clear or incisive presentation | 15 | |
| 6593286126 | GRATUITOUS | free; being without apparent reason, cause or justification | 16 | |
| 6593286127 | ELUCIDATE | to make clear; explain | 17 | |
| 6593286128 | VOLITION | a choice or decision made by one's own will | 18 | |
| 6593286129 | PROXIMITY | the property of being close together | 19 | |
| 6593286130 | HACKNEYED | commonplace; the constant use of a phrase or word which dulls its significance or force | 20 | |
| 6593286131 | DESPOTISM | the rule of someone with absolute authority, power, and control; tyranny | 21 | |
| 6593286132 | RECTITUDE | rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue | 22 | |
| 6593286133 | NASCENT | beginning to exist or develop | 23 | |
| 6593286134 | IMPETUS | stimulus; the force that sets something in motion | 24 | |
| 6593286135 | ENGENDER | to produce, cause, or give rise to | 25 | |
| 6593286136 | VICISSITUDE | a change or variation occurring in the course of something (vicissitude of fortune, vicissitude of seasons) | 26 | |
| 6593286137 | RENEGE | fail to fulfill a promise or obligation | 27 | |
| 6593286138 | PROLIFERATE | to grow or produce by multiplication of parts (cell division); spread rapidly | 28 | |
| 6593286139 | ENERVATE | to weaken; deprive of force or strength | 29 |