AP English SAT Vocab List
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- obstreperous
- noisy, loud
- contumacious
- insubordinate, rebellious
- mettlesome
- high-spirited, courageous
- cadge
- to beg, to get by begging
- pith
- the heart of the matter
- supine
- lying on the back
- remonstrate
- to protest, object
- inveigh
- to attack verbally
- precepts
- the rules, code of conduct
- impute
- to attribute to the cause
- feckless
- careless
- decorum
- propriety, properness
- penchant
- a strong liking
- appropriate(v)
- to acquire, set aside
- truculence
- aggressiveness, FEROCITY
- garrulity
- talkativeness
- arabesque
- an ornate design/dance position
- forbearance
- patience, willingness to wait
- veritable
- unquestionable, true
- pragmatic
- practical
- arrant
- in everyway
- consequential
- pompous, self important; having consequence
- malinger
- to fake an injury to shirk a duty
- paucity
- scarcity, a lacking of
- striated
- striped, banded, or grooved
- seminal
- like a seed, originative
- attenuate
- ENERVATE!!! to thin, to weaken
- precarious
- risky, uncertain, ...dangerous
- enervate
- ATTENUATE!!! to weaken, to deprive of strength
- beatify
- to bless, to make happy
- partisan
- prejudice, one-sided
- equivocate
- lie, to conceal the truth
- assiduous
- diligent, hardworking
- anachronism
- Something out of place for its time
- lassitude
- weariness, tiredness
- phlegmatic
- calm, slugglish temperament, unemotional
- sycophant
- suck-up
- perfunctory
- not thorough, superficial
- impair
- to worsen, to diminish in value
- transient
- temporary/ fleeting
- qualify
- to limit
- nascent
- to emerge, to come into existance
- Quixotic
- extravagently chivilrous, romantically idealistic, impractical
- reprobate
- A person hardened in sin, a libertine.....
- libertine
- an immoral man
- tractable
- easily influenced
- craven
- cowardly
- picaresque
- involving clever rogues or adventurers
- sedulous
- diligent, devoted to duty, assiduous
- aver
- to prove, justify, affirm, assert
- intrepid
- fearless, undaunted, brave
- impassive
- without feeling, not affected by PAIN!!
- salient
- highly relevant
- morose
- sullen, gloomy
- raffish
- disreputable; tawdry
- loquacious
- talkative
- piquant
- agreeably pungent, stimulating
- demur
- to hesitate, to raise objections
- equipoise
- equalibrium, equal weight on both sides
- abysmal
- extreme; low, like an abyss
- tawdry
- cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
- dross
- SLUDGE
- ardor
- passionate, enthusiasm
- insouciant
- unconcerned, care free
- volubility
- verbosity, fluency
- dulcet
- melodious, harmonious
- mellifluous
- sweetly flowing
- desiccate
- dehydrate
- harrow
- to distress, create stress
- pellucid
- transparent, easy to understand
- pariah
- an outcast / rejected person
- taciturn
- untalkative, silent
- pique
- resentment at being ignored
- turgid
- excessively ornate, bloated?
- pillory
- to punish
- adamant
- hard and inflexible, unyielding
- multifarious
- varied, motley
- torpor
- lethargy, sluggishness
- imprecation
- an invocation of evil; a curse
- audacious
- daring, bold
- hirsute
- hairy, shaggy
- tenacity
- firmness, persistency
- apostate
- one who abandons long held religous or political convictions
- lachrymose
- causing tears
- welter
- turmoil
- discomfit
- to defeat, put down
- laconic
- brief, to the point
- venal
- corruptible, bribable
- ossify
- to turn to bone! to become close minded
- disingenuous
- sophisticated, artful
- insensible
- unconscious, unresponsive, unaffected
- turbid
- muddy, having sediment stirred up
- erudite
- learned, scholarly
- saturnine
- gloomy, sullen, morose, dark...
- abeyance
- suspended action
- diaphanous
- transparent, gauzy
- epitome
- a typical example
- squalid
- foul, filthy
- quiescent
- at rest, dormant, torpid
- recreancy
- cowardice, a cowardly giving up
- misanthrope
- one who hates mankind
- misogynist
- one who hates women/females
- castigate
- to chastise, correct by punishing
- apprehension
- misgiving, dread
- gainsay
- deny
- pungency
- sharpness, stinging quality
- approbation
- approval
- refractory
- stubborn, unmanageable, intractable
- contentious
- quarrelsome, competitive, quick to fight, pugnacious
- antipathy
- aversion, dislike
- hapless
- unlucky, unfortunate
- prevaricate
- stray from or avoid the truth, equivocate
- countenance
- face, (v) approve of
- dogmatic
- positive, certain, arbitrary, without room for discussion
- strut
- a supporting bar
- felicitous
- suitably expressed, apt, well chosen, apropos
- apropos
- appropriate to the situation, apt
- implacable
- incapable of being placated, unpleasable
- guileless
- without deceit, honost
- resigned
- unresisting, submissive
- vituperate
- berate, attack verbally, FULMINATE
- render
- deliever, provide, represent
- diffidence
- shyness
- sophistry
- fallacious reasoning, faulty logic
- fulminate
- berate, explode, VITUPERATE
- dynamo
- a generator, energetic person
- assay
- an analysis
- hallow
- to make holy
- disabuse
- to undeceive, to correct a false impression
- boisterous
- loud, noisy, rough
- inveigle
- wheedle, led astray
- sodden
- soaked, saturated
- perfidious
- violating good faith, treacherous, dishonost
- conundrum
- a riddle, dilemma, enigma
- denouement
- an outcome or solution
- stolid
- having no emotion, impassive
- dissemble
- to hide, disguise
- desuetude
- disuse or cessation of use
- indefatigability
- tirelessness
- dilatory
- procrastinating, causing delay
- garner
- to gather or store, to save
- quaff
- drink in large quantities
- intractable
- stubborn
- delineate
- to sketch out
- ascetic
- practicing self-denial, austere
- fervid
- intense, zealous
- daunt
- intimidate, make fearful
- burgeon
- grow forth
- anomalous
- unexpected, strange
- nice
- precise, sensitive to subtleness
- prodigal
- wastefull, reckless with money
- lugubrious
- mournfull, excessively sad
- baleful
- OMINOUS, harmful
- credulous
- gullible, too willing to believe
- incredulous
- skeptical, unwilling to believe
- blithe
- cheerful, casual, carefree
- verisimilitude
- appearing true or real
- provident
- frugal, looking to the future
- edacious
- voracious, devouring
- exposulate
- correct, or protest
- auspice
- protection or support
- auspicious
- favorable, successful, prosperous
- punctilious
- precise
- salutary
- remedial
- imbroglio
- difficult or embarrassing situation
- wend
- to go, proceed
- nostrum
- a quack remedy
- personable
- attractive
- salactious
- obscene
- exscind
- to cut out
- sublime
- lofty, noble
- quail
- lose courage
- urbane
- elegant
- tyro
- novice
- boorish
- crude, offensive
- upbraid
- reprove, reproach
- effete
- infertile, weak
- obdurate
- stubborn,inflexible
- mince
- to speak too carefully
- inimitable
- defying imitation, unmatchable
- inveterate
- deep rooted, habitual
- umbrage
- offense, resentment
- extirpate
- to DESTROY
- forswear
- renounce, disallow
- ignoble
- dishonorable
- ostensible
- seeming, appearing as such
- illusory
- deceptive; an illusion
- overweening
- presumptuously arrogant
- wag
- to be incessantly active
- lucubrate
- write in a scholarly fashion
- impetuous
- impulsive
- bellicose
- belligerent, WARLIKE
- cabal
- a scheme or plot
- irresolute
- unresolved, indecisive
- complaisance
- tending to comply
- apprise
- inform
- pusillanimous
- cowardly, craven
- polemical
- controversial
- luculent
- easily understood
- poignant
- physcally painful
- engender
- cause, produce
- equanimity
- calmness of temperament
- ingenuous
- young, honost, artless
- epicure
- food lover
- inchoate
- not yet fully formed, rudimentary
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome, belligerent, given to fighting
- peremptory
- urgent, imperative
- exigency
- emergency
- ameliorate
- improve
- august
- majestic
- minatory
- menacing
- froward
- stubborn
- fetter
- to shackle
- pundit
- a learned scholar
- belie
- contradict
- prosaic
- mundane
- hermetic
- sealed by fusion
- fervor
- zeal, intense emotion
- endemic
- prevailing in a specific area
- reticent
- untalkative, silent
- rapacious
- greedy
- coeval
- coexisting
- austere
- stern
- indolence
- laziness
- pristine
- unspoiled
- capricious
- fickle, unpredictable
- edifying
- enlightening
- philistine
- one who lacks knowledge
- maladroit
- clumsy
- detumscence
- diminishing of swelling
- stygian
- gloomy
- calumniate
- to slander
- baneful
- destructive
- forestall
- prevent by taking action in advance
- occult
- hidden