AP Seminar Vocab Test

1100 Words You Need to Know: Week 5

rampant

going unchecked, widespread

inane

foolish

ethics

code of principles

concur

to agree

clandestine

secret, undercover

flagrant

outrageous, glaringly bad

admonish

to warn, to reprove

duress

compulsion, force

culprit

the guilty person, one who commits a crime

inexorable

inflexible, unrelenting

egregious

remarkably bad

distraught

mentally confused, crazed

duplicity

cunning, trickery

acrimonious

bitter, stinging, or caustic in nature or speech

paucity

scarcity; lack

elicit

to draw forth, bring out from some source

pernicious

harmful, causing injury

tolerate

to put up with, to bear

construe

to make a deduction, to infer

impunity

freedom from punishment