AP English vocab list 10

Question 1

imperial

Answer 1

adj. like an emperor or an empire; royal; regal

Question 2

espouse

Answer 2

v. to support; to advocate

Question 3

enigma

Answer 3

n. a mystery

Question 4

exacerbate

Answer 4

v. to make worse; aggravate; compound

Question 5

taciturn

Answer 5

adj. untalkative by nature; reserved; uncommunicative

Question 6

palpable

Answer 6

adj. capable of being touched; obvious; tangible

Question 7

capricious

Answer 7

adj. unpredictable; likely to change at any moment

Question 8

irascible

Answer 8

adj. easily angered or provoked

Question 9

deluge

Answer 9

n. a flood; an inundation

Question 10

debacle

Answer 10

n. violent breakdown; sudden overthrow; overwhelming defeat

Question 11

mellifluous

Answer 11

adj. sweetly flowing

Question 12

tautological

Answer 12

adj. needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy

Question 13

hapless

Answer 13

adj. unlucky

Question 14

insatiable

Answer 14

adj. difficult or impossible to satisfy; greedy

Question 15

proliferate

Answer 15

v. to spread or grow rapidly

Question 16

malinger

Answer 16

v. to pretend to be sick; to avoid doing work

Question 17

catharsis

Answer 17

n. purification that brings emotional relief or renewal

Question 18

incessant

Answer 18

adj. unceasing

Question 19

extrapolate

Answer 19

v. to project or deduce from something known; to infer

Question 20

invective

Answer 20

n. insulting or abusive speech

Question 21

grandiose

Answer 21

adj. absurdly exaggerated

Question 22

predilection

Answer 22

n. a natural preference for something

Question 23

dissipate

Answer 23

v. to thin out, drift away, or dissolve

Question 24

lament

Answer 24

v. to mourn

Question 25

usurp

Answer 25

v. to seize wrongfully