AP French Vocab Practice

Adroit

Skillful

Capricious

Changeable, unpredictable

Circumspect

Careful, cautious

Didactic

Intended to teach

Equivocal

Vague

Esoteric

Abstruse; Obscure

Ineffable

Inexpressible

Magnanimous

Generous

Obsequious

Obedient; submissive to others will

Pedantic

Knowledgeable but dull; perfectionist

Pedestrian

Dull, common, trite (lacking originality)

Pragmatic

Practical

Quixotic

Romantic and impractical

Sycophant

A person who flatters; a yes man

Tacit(urn)

Silent; not talkative

Aloof

Reserved, distant

Banal

Common, ordinary, trite, hackneyed

Censure

To criticize harshly

(Dis)ingenuous

(not) innocent, honest

Disparage

To insult

Duplicitous

Deceptive in behavior or speech

Eschew

To avoid

Extol

To praise

Heterogeneous

Diverse

Iconoclast

A person who attacks and ridicules cherished figures, ideas, and institutions

Innocucous

Harmless

Laconic

Brief

Meticulous

Extremely precise and careful

Mitigate

To make less severe

Substantiate

To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

Alleviate

To make less severe

Assiduous

Diligent, hard working

Bellicose

Violent

Convoluted

Complicated

Cosmopolitan

Worldly, Sophisticated

Deleterious

Harmful

Ephemeral

Brief; lasting for a short time

Obsinate

Stubborn

Paradigm

An example or model

Transitory

Brief; Lasting for only a short while

Scrunitize

Examine carefully

Superfluous

Excessive

Undermine

To weaken

Venerate

To Honor

Wary

Careful, cautious

Abstruse

Difficult to understand

Ascetic

Self-denying, abstinent, austere

Bombastic

Arrogant

Candid

Truthful

Contemtuous

Showing dislike

Derivative

Banal

Gregarious

Talkative

Hackneyed

Banal

Motley

Diverse

Penchant

Affinity

Provincial

Narrow-minded

Supercilious

Arrogant

Tout

To praise

Vitriolic

Acerbic

Whimsical

Capricious

Acumen

Shrewdness

Acquiesce

To give in, to comply

Aesthetic

Having to do with artistic beauty

Assuage

To make less severe

Benign

Gentle

Bucolic

Having to do with country life

Caustic

Biting and sarcastic

Diligent

Hard working

Eclectic

Diverse

Flippant

Not serious or respectful attitude

(In)tractable

Stubborn

Laud

To praise

Munificent

Generous

Trite

Banal

Vernacular

Everyday language

Eulogy

Praise

Euphony

Harmonious

Excavate

To dig

Exhort

Encourage

Dispassionate

Unemotional

Facetious

Flippant

Mawkish

Maudlin

Nadir

Rock-bottom

Ostensible

Outward

Panache

Confidence

Plasticity

Easily shaped or modeled

Prognosticate

Foretell

Rapacious

Greedy

Stagnate

Become inactive or dull

Treacly

Cloying

Denizen

Native; inhabitant

Divulge

Reveal; publish

Expedite

Accelerate

Extemporaneous

Ad-lib

Imperious

Arrogantly domineering; dictatorial

Judicious

Fair and equal; wise

Libel

Defamation; misrepresentation

Myopic

Narrow-minded

Polymath

Pundit

Proclivity

Affinity