AP Lang Vocab Quiz

Feign

To pretend to have a feeling; to pretend to be affected by something.

supercilious

(adj) behaving or thinking one is superior to others

Anemic

Lacking force, vitality or spirit; lacking in substance or quality.

Hauteur

Pride, arrogance; cockiness.

Disdain

A feeling of contempt for anything regarded as unworthy; aloof contempt or scorn.

Strident

Loud, harsh, grating or shrill.

Toiled

To work hard.

Prodigal

Given to wasteful expenditure; addicted to extravagance and waste.

Malevolence

A desire to hurt others; evil.

Poignant

Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.

Punctilious

Painstaking; meticulous; strict attention to minute details.

Retribution

Something justly deserved; taking revenge or correcting a wrong.

Somnambulatory

Sleepwalking.

Tactless

Lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others.

Harrowed

To cause distress.

Vestige

A mark, trace or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence.

Nebulous

Hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused.

Ineffable

Incapable of being expressed; indescribable.

Reverie

A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream.

Menagerie

A collection of wild or unusual animals, or an unusual and varied group of people.

Sentence Pattern 5

Has a series of pairs—two or three or four—with a conjunction between the items in each pair.

Sentence Pattern 6

Begins with a cluster of appositives then you need a dash, a word that summarizes the appositives, and the subject-verb combination for the main clause.