Ap Lang Vocab Quiz

Question 1

adroit

Answer 1

someone that is skillful

Question 2

ascetic

Answer 2

someone practicing great self-denial, usually for religious reasons

Question 2

brusque

Answer 2

A person who is short, abrupt, dismissive

Question 3

capricious

Answer 3

used to describe someone or something that is impulsive, unpredictable, or subject to sudden and unaccountable changes in behavior

Question 4

compunction

Answer 4

Distress caused by feeling guilty about something

Question 5

devoid

Answer 5

Lacking in something

Question 6

dissemble

Answer 6

To disguise their true feelings

Question 7

edict

Answer 7

An order

Question 8

eschew

Answer 8

To avoid

Question 9

fastidious

Answer 9

having high and unreachable standards

Question 10

impervious

Answer 10

Unable to be effected by

Question 11

irascible

Answer 11

easily angered

Question 12

magnanimous

Answer 12

someone that is noble and generous

Question 13

onerous

Answer 13

being a burden

Question 14

somnolent

Answer 14

someone who is always sleepy or drowsy

Question 15

surreptitious

Answer 15

a secretive person, someone who can keep a well kept secret

Question 16

tenuous

Answer 16

something that had no effort put into

Question 17

truncate

Answer 17

shortening something like a speech

Question 18

umbrage

Answer 18

taking offense

Question 19

veracity

Answer 19

accuracy