AP Vocab. List #3

2025 AP. Lang Vocabulary List #3

abtruse

difficult to penetrate, understand

affable

diffusing warmth and friendliness

audacity

aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery

contrite

feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses, remorseful

credulous

disposed to believe on little evidence

depravity

moral perversion or corruption

deprecate

express strong disapproval of, belittle

didactic

instructive (especially excessively)

dormant

not active but capable of becoming active

enigmatic

not clear to the understanding, puzzling

erudite

having or showing profound knowledge

exotic

striking strange or unusual, being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world

fuse

make a liquid or plastic by heating, join with pressure or heat

immutable

not subject or susceptible to change it variation in form or quality or nature

incorrigible

impervious to correction by punishment

loathe

find repugnant

mitigate

lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

nullify

make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of, declare invalid

pacifistic

opposed to war

pretentious

making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserving) importance or distinction

prologue

an introduction to a play, introductory remarks

recant

to formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

servile

overly submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior

trepidation

a feeling of alarm or dread

vilify

spread negative information about