AP english : vocab unit 1-2

Question 1

Jingoist

Answer 1

One who boasts about his patriotism and favors a warlike foreign policy.

Question 2

Lothario

Answer 2

Rake, seducer, lover

Question 3

Maverick

Answer 3

One who acts independently

Question 4

Nemesis

Answer 4

Agent of retribution, just punishment

Question 5

Philanderer

Answer 5

One who makes love insincerely

Question 6

Philippic

Answer 6

Bitter verbal attack

Question 7

Procrustean

Answer 7

Designed to secure conformity, drastic

Question 8

Protean

Answer 8

Changeable, taking on different forms

Question 9

Pyrrhic victory

Answer 9

A victory that is especially costly

Question 10

Quixotic

Answer 10

Romantically idealistic, impractical

Question 11

Saturnine

Answer 11

Sluggish, gloomy, grave

Question 12

Solecism

Answer 12

Standard use of words, violation of good manners

Question 13

Spoonerism

Answer 13

An unintentional change of sounds

Question 14

Sybarite

Answer 14

One who is fond of luxury and soft living

Question 15

Tawdry

Answer 15

Cheap, gaudy, showy

Question 16

Acidulous

Answer 16

Somewhat acid or sour

Question 17

Avaricious

Answer 17

Excessively greedy

Question 18

Baleful

Answer 18

Deadly, sinister

Question 19

Bellicose

Answer 19

Warlike, quarrelsome

Question 20

Bilious

Answer 20

Bad tempered, bitter

Question 21

Bumptious

Answer 21

Arrogant, disagreeably conceited

Question 22

Captious

Answer 22

Critical, quick to find fault, quibbling

Question 23

Churlish

Answer 23

Rude, surly

Question 24

Complaisant

Answer 24

Willing to please, tending to consent to others wishes

Question 25

Contrite

Answer 25

Crushed in spirit by a feeling of guilt

Question 26

Convivial

Answer 26

Lively, festive, sociable

Question 27

Craven

Answer 27

Cowardly

Question 28

Debonair

Answer 28

Courteous, gracious and having a sophisticated charm

Question 29

Dyspeptic

Answer 29

Grouchy, gloomy

Question 30

Lachrymose

Answer 30

Sad, mournful, inclined to she’d many tears