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100 AP English Words
100 Words Every Junior AP English Student Should Know
Question | Answer |
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abjure | to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant |
abrogate | to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal |
abstemious | sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet. |
acumen | keen insight; shrewdness |
antebellum | before or existing before a war |
auspicious | promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable |
belie | to show to be false; contradict |
bellicose | inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious |
bowdlerize | to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable |
chicanery | trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry |
chromosome | any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order |
churlish | boorish; rude |
circumnavigate | to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation |
deciduous | shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs |
deleterious | injurious to health |
diffident | lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy |
enervate | to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken |
enfranchise | to grant a franchise to; admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting |
enthymeme | a syllogism or other argument in which a premise or the conclusion is unexpressed |
epiphany | |
equinox | |
euro | |
evanescent | |
expurgate | |
facetious | |
fatuous | |
feckless | |
fiduciary | |
filibuster |