Ap English Vocab

Question 0

Enigmatic

Answer 0

Resembling a puzzling occurrence, situation, statement, person

Question 1

Emulate

Answer 1

To copy

Question 2

Ennui

Answer 2

A feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from or lack of interest; boredom

Question 3

Ephemeral

Answer 3

Lasting a very short time; short-lived

Question 4

Epicure

Answer 4

A person who cultivated a refined taste, especially in food and wine

Question 5

Equivocate

Answer 5

To use ambiguous or unclear expressions

Question 6

Erudition

Answer 6

Knowledge acquired by study, research

Question 7

Esoteric

Answer 7

Understand by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest

Question 8

Espouse

Answer 8

to make one’s own; adopt or embrace, as a cause.

Question 9

Ethereal

Answer 9

light, airy, or tenuous:

Question 10

Extol

Answer 10

to praise highly; laud; eulogize:

Question 11

Fatuous

Answer 11

foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.

Question 12

Fecund

Answer 12

producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful:

Question 13

Felicity

Answer 13

the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss:

Question 14

Fetid

Answer 14

having an offensive odor; stinking.

Question 15

Flippant

Answer 15

frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity:

Question 16

Florid

Answer 16

reddish; ruddy; rosy:

Question 17

Foible

Answer 17

a minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect:

Question 18

Furtive

Answer 18

taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret:

Question 19

Garish

Answer 19

crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.

Question 20

Garner

Answer 20

to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.

Question 21

Guile

Answer 21

insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.

Question 22

Hedonism

Answer 22

the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.

Question 23

Heretic

Answer 23

a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church.

Question 24

Hiatus

Answer 24

a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.

Question 25

Histrionic

Answer 25

of or relating to actors or acting.

Question 26

Hoary

Answer 26

gray or white with age:

Question 27

Iconoclasm

Answer 27

the action or spirit of iconoclasts.
1.
the action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices.

Question 28

Immutable

Answer 28

not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.

Question 29

Impervious

Answer 29

not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: