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AP Language Semester Vocabulary Quiz Flashcards

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To contend against; oppose

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Repugn

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Resembling or having the properties of oil; oily, containing or producing oil
Marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality

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Oleaginous

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One accused of or charged with a crime
One guilty of a crime or a fault
The source or cause of a problem

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Culprit

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To make more violent, bitter, or severe

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Exacerbate

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The action, process, or fact of spreading apart

A divergence of opinion

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Divarication

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Of, relating to, or connected with the sense of smell

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Olfactory

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Dominant influence or authority over others

Social, cultural ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group

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Hegemony

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The use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case
The use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent word in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense

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Syllepsis

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Long discussion or meeting usually between persons of different cultures or levels of sophistication
Idle talk
Misleading or beguiling speech

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Palaver

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Extremely sharp; keen

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Rapier

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The world viewed as a community in which distance and isolation have been dramatically reduced by electronic media

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Global village

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A theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing; also: extreme egocentrism

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Solipsism

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Of relating to a tree; resembling a tree

Inhabiting or frequenting trees

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Arboreal

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Taking on values arbitrarily close to but greater than zero

Immeasurably or incalculably small

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Infinitesimal

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With all possible speed

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Posthaste

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Attempting to put into effect an abstract doctrine or theory with little or no regard for practical difficulties

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Doctrinaire

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A formal utterance of an authoritative opinion
A formal decision given by a court
The capacity for judging or the excretes of this capacity

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Judgement

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18
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Brought back

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Redux

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Something done or given as an acknowledgement of vassal’s duty to his lord
Respect
Tribute

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Homage

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20
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Foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals

Capricious, unpredictable

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Quixotic

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An original model on which something is patterned: archetype
An individual that exhibits the essential features of a later type
A standard or typical example
A first full-scale and usually functional form of a new type of design of a construction

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Prototype

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Conspicuous, especially: conspicuously bad: flagrant

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Egregious

23
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Prevalent especially to an increase degree
Abundant, common
Copiously supplied: abounding

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Rife

24
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Volunteering one’s services where they are neither asked nor needed: meddlesome
Informal, unofficial

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Officious

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A melodic phrase or figure that accompanies the reappearance of an idea, person, or situation in a music drama
A dominant recurring theme

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Leitmotif

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Occurring immediately before the last one: next to last

Of or relating to the next to the last syllable of a word

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Penultimate

27
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One who is extremely or excessively fond of shopping

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Shopaholic

28
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To laugh at contemptuously

To subject to usually bitter or contemptuous ridicule

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Deride

29
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Having a smooth rich flow

Filled with something (such as honey) that sweetens

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Mellifluous

30
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To assert without proof or before proving

To bring forward as a reason or excuse

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Allege

31
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Not commensurable, broadly; lacking a basis of comparison in respect to a quality normally subject to comparison

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Incommensurable

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An ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence also: a minor blunder in speed
Something deviating from the proper, normal, or accepted order
A breath of cigarette or decorum

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Solecism

33
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The ringing or sounding of ells

A jingling or tinking sound as if of bells

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Tintinnabulation

34
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A going or marching up: advance, especially: a military advance
A difficult and dangerous military retreat

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Anabasis

35
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Not open to question

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Incontrovertible

36
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Lacking in candor; also: giving a false appearance of simple frankness: calculating

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Disingenuous

37
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Anxiety arising from awareness of guilt
Distress of mind over an anticipated action or result
A twinge of misgiving: scruple

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Compunction

38
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Occurring everyday
Belonging to each day: everyday
Commonplace, ordinary

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Quotidian

39
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To pull up by the roots

To do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots

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Eradicate

40
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A landscaping method developed for arid and semiarid climates that utilizes water-conserving techniques

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Xeriscape

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Popular sentiment

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Vox populi

42
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Deliberately affected;theatrical

Of or relating to actors, acting, or the theatre

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Histrionic

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Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of Thraso; bragging, boastful

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Thrasonical

44
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Having a changeable luster or color with an undulating narrow band of white light

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Chatoyant

45
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Sort, kind

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Ilk

46
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To attempt to ingratiate oneself; toady

To curry favor with (as by flattery)

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Apple-polish

47
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Producing wealth; profitable

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Lucrative

48
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To win over by wiles; entice

To acquire by ingenuity or flattery: wangle

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Inveigle

49
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The character of a language

An intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate

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Sprachgefühl

50
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Perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion
Not easily overcome or removed

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Obstinate

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