AP Lang Vocab Test #2

subterfuge

trick

superannuate

obsolete

surreptitious

by stealth

synchronize

operate in unison

syndicate

an association formed to negotiate some form of business

temerity

foolish boldness

tenuous

flimsy

tenable

defensible

tenure

term of office

truism

an obvious truth

unprecedented

unlike anything that has gone before

venal

bribable

verify

confirm

vernacular

common everyday speech

virulent

poisonous

vitiate

to invalidate

vituperate

scold

vociferous

noisy

volatile

changeable

votary

devotee

voluminous

of great bulk or size

schism

division

scurrillous

abusive

sedentary

inactive

sedulous

hard working

somber

gloomy

somnolent

drowsy

sonorous

resonant

sortie

sudden bursting forth of troops

specious

apparently good but not actually so

stereotype

generalization of a group

stipend

salary

strident

shrill

stultify

worthless : nullify

subservient

servile

subsidiary

secondary

repiete

full to the uttermost

repository

storage

repugnance

disgust

residual

liquid reminder

restitution

restoring

retroactive

taking effect at a time prior to its enactment

retrospect

view of something past

revelation

making known

rostrum

platform for a speaker

rotund

plump

salutary

wholesome

sanguine

cheerful

sardonic

sneering

saturnine

gloomy

Punctillous

Exact

Pusillanimous

Cowardly

Querulous

Quarrel

Quiescent

Quiet

Raillery

Merry jesting

Raucous

Disorderly

Reactionary

Archconservative

Recalcitrant

Obstinate

Reciprocate

Interchange

Redundant

Excessive

Regicide

The killing of a ruler

Regimen

Ordered course of living

Remission

Easing off of disease

Remuneration

Pay

Repartee

Conservation marked by quick and witty replies

priority

right to be first

proffer

to offer something intangible

prognostic

foretelling : predictive

proletarian

lower class citizens

propitlate

to appease

propitious

favorable

proponent

a supporter

proscribe

to outlaw

prospective

future

protagonist

the main character

protege

person under protection

prototype

first thing

proxy

stand in

pseudonym

author’s fictitious name

puissance

power

purport

intention

parasitic

obtains at the expense of another

patron

supporter of the arts

perfidious

treacherous

perspicuity

clarity

pertinent

relevant

platitude

cliche

pleasantry

a playful, amusing, or good-natured remark

plebeian

pertaining to the common people

plebiscite

expression of the popular will by means of a vote by a whole people

politic

crafty

predilection

a preference

prescience

foreknowledge

presumptuous

too bold

primordial

primitive

insular

provincial

intercede

to mediate

invidious

offensive

irony

sarcastic manner of speaking

laity

distinguished from the clergy