English Vocabulary - AP Study Deck 2009
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- Abstruse
- difficult to understand, recondite, concealed
- Affable
- friendly, courteous, amiable
- Audacity
- excessive boldness, rashness, daring
- Contrite
- extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant
- Credulous
- believing on slight evidence, gullible
- Depravity
- moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act
- Deprecate
- to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval
- Didactic
- instructive, designed to teach
- Dormant
- inactive, sleeping
- Enigmatic
- mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling
- Erudite
- scholarly
- Exotic
- foreign, unfamiliar
- Fuse
- to mix or to join
- Immutable
- unchanging
- Incorrigible
- incapable of being reformed or improved
- Loathe
- to detest
- Mitigate
- to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe
- Nullify
- to cause not to be in effect; to negate
- Pacifistic
- opposed to war or the use of force
- Pretentious
- making an extravagant outward show; self-important
- Prologue
- introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work
- Recant
- to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke
- Servile
- overly submissive
- Trepidation
- fear, trembling, agitation
- Vilify
- to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements
- Aesthetic
- relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art
- Aloof
- apart, indifferent
- Archaic
- antiquated, old, out of use
- Assuage
- to ease, to mitigate, to make less painful or burdensome
- Belie
- to contradict, to give a false impression
- Contentious
- quarrelsome, stirring controversy
- Daunt
- to intimidate, to dismay
- Debilitate
- to weaken, to enfeeble
- Discord
- lack of agreement, tension, strife
- Dissemination
- the act of spreading widely; scattering
- Dogmatic
- strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner
- Duplicity
- double-dealing, hypocrisy
- Egocentric
- self-centered, selfish
- Euphemism
- substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive
- Gluttonous
- greedy for food and drink
- Mundane
- ordinary, commonplace
- Ominous
- threatening
- Petulance
- unreasonable touchiness or irritability
- Pompous
- exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance, bombastic
- Precocious
- exceptionally early in development or occurrence
- Slothful
- lazy, indolent
- Trivia
- insignificant matters
- Verbose
- wordy, very talkative
- Virulent
- extremely poinsonous; hateful
- Volatile
- quickly changeable, easily vaporized
- Acrimonious
- caustic
- Ameliorate
- to make better, to relieve, to improve
- Amenable
- open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion
- Amorphous
- shapeless, having no definite form
- Buoyant
- capable of floating; cheerful
- Cajole
- to persuade with deliberate flattery, to coax
- Calamity
- a serious event causing distress or misfortune
- Debase
- to reduce in dignity or quality
- Efface
- to erase, to wear away
- Elucidate
- to make clear, to explain
- Ephemeral
- lasting a short period of time, fleeting
- Ferocity
- savagery
- Flourish
- to thrive, to grow well
- Haughty
- arrogant, excessively proud and vain
- Impervious
- incapable of being entered or penetrated
- Inane
- lacking significance, meaning or point; silly
- Indolence
- laziness
- Infallible
- incapable of error
- Inscrutable
- difficult to understand, mysterious
- Languid
- slow, sluggish, listless, weak
- Malice
- desire to harm others
- Oblique
- slanting, indirect, evasive, devious
- Opulence
- wealth, affluence, abundance
- Penitent
- showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant
- Perfunctory
- acting routinely with little interest or care