AP English vocab list 3

Question 1

reiterate

Answer 1

v. to say again; to repeat

Question 2

circumlocution

Answer 2

n. the use of many words where fewer would do, esp. in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive

Question 3

proletariat

Answer 3

n. the industrial working class

Question 4

distend

Answer 4

v. to swell; to extend a great deal

Question 5

perquisite

Answer 5

n. a privilege that goes along with a job; a “perk”

Question 6

precipitous

Answer 6

adj. steep

Question 7

furtive

Answer 7

adj. secretive; sly

Question 8

dictum

Answer 8

n. an authoritative saying; an adage; a maxim

Question 9

consummate

Answer 9

adj. perfect; complete; supremely skillful / v. to make perfect; to make complete

Question 10

recalcitrant

Answer 10

adj. stubbornly defiant of authority; disobedient

Question 11

rapacious

Answer 11

adj. greedy; plundering; avaricious

Question 12

stricture

Answer 12

n. a restriction; a limitation

Question 13

urbane

Answer 13

adj. poised; sophisticated; refined

Question 14

recant

Answer 14

v. to publicly take back words or deny

Question 15

egalitarian

Answer 15

adj. believing in the social and economic equality of all people

Question 16

misanthropic

Answer 16

adj. hating mankind

Question 17

itinerant

Answer 17

adj. moving from place to place

Question 18

officious

Answer 18

adj. annoyingly eager to help or advise

Question 19

enervate

Answer 19

v. to reduce the strength or energy of, especially to do so gradually

Question 20

rogue

Answer 20

n. a dishonest or unprincipled person

Question 21

audacity

Answer 21

n. boldness; reckless daring

Question 22

erudite

Answer 22

adj. scholarly; deeply learned

Question 23

sacrosanct

Answer 23

adj. sacred; held to be inviolable

Question 24

tenacious

Answer 24

adj. persistent; stubborn

Question 25

petulant

Answer 25

adj. rude; cranky; ill-tempered