AP English Vocab

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a particular vocabulary

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Impoverished

deprived of strength, vitality, creativeness

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Peruse

to look over or through with attention

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Erudite

learned, especially from books and schooling

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Metanoia

a profound personal change or transformation

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Perfunctory

performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic

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Ubiquitous

having the quality of being everywhere at once

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Plethora

an overabundance; a surplus; many, many, many

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Exacerbate

to make something worse

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Egregious

conspicuously bad; flagrant; deserving of disdain

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Eclectic

selecting what is best from various methods, styles, beliefs

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Innocuous

harmless; inoffensive

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Gregarious

enjoying the company of others; social, genial, outgoing

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Ecdyslast

a stripper

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Myopic

short-sighted, narrow minded

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Acquiesce

to submit or consent to something without protest/argument

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Enigmatic

a puzzling or inexplicable situation or person

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Harbinger

a forerunner, a herald

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Portentous

foreshadowing an event to come, usually ominous in some way

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Ineffable

incapable of putting into words

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Surreptitious

done, made, or acquired by stealth

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Furtive

taken, done, used, etc. surreptitiously or by stealth; done in a quiet secretive way to avoid being noticed

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Facade

a superficial appearance or illusion of something

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Macabre

gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible

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