AP Vocab. List #14

2025 AP. Lang Vocabulary List #14

adulterate

to make impure by adding something

animosity

having a feeling of ill-will; bitter hostility

apocryphal

of questionable authority or authenticity

avarice

greed, especially for wealth

coalesce

come together, unite; fuse together

collaborate

to work together

cryptic

having a hidden or ambiguous meaning; mysterious

desultory

aimless, random

dissipation

wasteful spending, squandering

edifying

enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement

equivocate

to attempt to lie or obscure the truth

espousing

marrying, giving ones loyalty, adopting or embracing a cause

hedonist

a lover of luxury; a pleasure-seeker

indefatigable

not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged

interminable

endless; seeming to be without end

naive

(adj.) innocent, unsophisticated, showing lack of worldly knowledge and experience

parody

a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule

peripheral

on the edge; not central

portent

an ominous sign or forewarning of coming events

prodigious

(adj.) immense; extraordinary in bulk, size, or degree

profane

showing contempt toward sacred things

respite

a period of relief or rest

sordid

filthy, corrupt, offensive in detail

surfeited

fed beyond capacity or desire

trifling

trivial, not very important; so small as to be unimportant; frivolous, shallow