AP English Vocab

Lexicon

a particular vocabulary

Impoverished

deprived of strength, vitality, creativeness

Peruse

to look over or through with attention

Erudite

learned, especially from books and schooling

Metanoia

a profound personal change or transformation

Perfunctory

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

Ubiquitous

having the quality of being everywhere at once

Plethora

an overabundance; a surplus; many, many, many

Exacerbate

to make something worse

Egregious

conspicuously bad; flagrant; deserving of disdain

Eclectic

selecting what is best from various methods, styles, beliefs

Innocuous

harmless; inoffensive

Gregarious

enjoying the company of others; social, genial, outgoing

Ecdyslast

a stripper

Myopic

short-sighted, narrow minded

Acquiesce

to submit or consent to something without protest/argument

Enigmatic

a puzzling or inexplicable situation or person

Harbinger

a forerunner, a herald

Portentous

foreshadowing an event to come, usually ominous in some way

Ineffable

incapable of putting into words

Surreptitious

done, made, or acquired by stealth

Furtive

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

Facade

a superficial appearance or illusion of something

Macabre

gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible