AP Language Recommended Vocabulary Flashcards

13839282933	Cogent	convincing; reasonable	0
13839283816	Didactic	intended to instruct	1
13839284908	Lucid	easy to understand, clear; rational, sane	2
13839286493	Arbiter	a judge who decides a disputed issue	3
13839287764	Exculpate	to free from blame	4
13839289113	Incontrovertible	indisputable; not open to question	5
13839292248	Substantiated	supported with proof or evidence; verified	6
13839293122	Despotic	exercising absolute power; tyrannical	7
13839293123	Haughty	arrogant; vainly proud	8
13839295454	Imperious	arrogantly domineering or overbearing	9
13839299013	Convoluted	intricate and complicated	10
13839299014	Futile	useless; hopeless	11
13839300466	Impede	to slow the progress of	12
13839301718	Indolent	lazy	13
13839302935	Impinge	hinder; interfere with	14
13839302936	Servile	submissive; slavish	15
13839305116	Opulent	wealthy, luxurious; ample; grandiose	16
13839310597	Ostentatious	showy	17
13839311612	Poignant	emotionally moving	18
13839313370	Ebullience	intense enthusiasm	19
13839316914	Effusive	emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative	20
13839332951	Egregious	outstandingly bad	21
13839335220	Flagrant	extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable	22
13839336642	Frenetic	wildly excited or active	23
13839338216	Gratuitous	freely given; not called for by circumstances, unwarranted	24
13839343474	Superfluous	exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess	25
13839344639	Auspicious	conducive to success; favorable	26
13839346570	Benevolent	well meaning and kindly	27
13839349244	Mollify	to calm or make less severe	28
13839350039	Dubious	hesitating or doubting	29
13839350040	Spurious	not genuine, not true, not valid	30
13839350850	Astute	shrewd; clever	31
13839351974	Stratagem	a clever trick used to deceive or outwit	32
13839354381	Surreptitiously	done by secretive means	33
13839357814	Ambiguous	open to more than one interpretation	34
13839358434	Ambivalent	having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone	35
13839360435	Arbitrary	based on one's wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness	36
13839363577	Capricious	impulsive and unpredictable	37
13839366745	Tenuous	having little substance or strength	38
13839366746	Assiduous	hard-working	39
13839367659	Intrepid	courageous; fearless	40
13839367660	Obdurate	stubborn; unyielding	41
13839368786	Proliferate	to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly	42
13839381388	inherent	firmly established by nature or habit	43
13839382169	Inverterate	firmly established, long-standing; habitual	44
13839385254	Omnipotent	all-powerful	45
13839388609	Amenable	responsive; agreeable	46
13839389541	Facetious	playfully humorous	47
13839389542	Dilettante	someone with an amateurish and superficial understanding of a field of knowledge	48
13839393140	Propriety	appropriateness of behavior	49
13839395835	Staid	unemotional; serious	50
13839396401	Pejorative	Words or phrases that belittle or speak negative of someone	51
13839399069	Brusque	rudely short, abrupt, dismissive	52
13839400033	Caustic	bitingly sarcastic or witty	53
13839400704	Fractious	quarrelsome; unruly; rebellious	54
13839401423	Fastidious	possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please	55
13839404290	Incorrigible	unable to be reformed	56
13839405768	Pugnacious	quarrelsome, fond of fighting	57
13839405782	Deleterious	harmful	58
13839406523	Transitory	short-lived or temporary	59
13839407790	Affable	easy-going; friendly	60
13839409152	Rancorous	hateful	61
13839409921	Hackneyed	used so often as to lack freshness or originality	62
13839410741	Austere	severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance	63
13839412831	Malfeasance	misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official	64
13839412832	Prosaic	unimaginative; dull	65
13839415338	Harbringer	something indicating the approach of what's to come	66
13839416504	Timorous	fearful, timid	67
13839417396	Nascent	coming into existence; emerging	68
13839418523	Sonorous	producing a deep or full sound	69
13839419366	Copious	abundant; plentiful	70
13839419367	Permeated	spread or flowing throughout	71
13839420006	Prodigious	enormous	72
13839420974	Replete	abundantly supplied; filled to capacity	73
13839421957	Laudatory	giving praise	74
13839421958	Venerated	highly respected	75