AP Lang/SAT Vocab List 6

Question 1

opposition; hostility; resistance

Answer 1

antagonist

Question 2

subject to individual judgment

Answer 2

arbitrary

Question 3

severe; without frills

Answer 3

austere

Question 4

to make faster or easier

Answer 4

expedite (expedient)

Question 5

an opinion violently opposed to established beliefs

Answer 5

heresy

Question 6

to settle by concession or surrender

Answer 6

compromise

Question 7

to talk down to

Answer 7

condescend

Question 8

false; untrue

Answer 8

fallacious (fallacy)

Question 9

abstract; not capable of being touched or felt

Answer 9

intangible

Question 10

acting superior to others; snooty

Answer 10

arrogant

Question 11

able to co-exist; harmonious

Answer 11

compatible

Question 12

doubtful

Answer 12

dubious

Question 13

to ask for; seek

Answer 13

solicit

Question 14

tough to catch; hard to pin down

Answer 14

elusive (elude)

Question 15

to make easier; to help

Answer 15

facilitate

Question 16

stationary; not moving (not the same as radio fuzz)

Answer 16

static

Question 17

satiric; unexpected

Answer 17

ironic

Question 18

unreasonable; unpredictable

Answer 18

irrational

Question 19

stubbornly opinionated

Answer 19

dogmatic

Question 20

shocking; outstandingly bad

Answer 20

flagrant