Ap Composition & Language Vocabulary

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acumen

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keen insight, shrewdness

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auspicious

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promising success, opportune

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bellicose

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inclined or eager to fight, aggressively hostile

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chicanery

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trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry

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churlish

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rude, mean, difficult to deal with

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deleterious

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injurious to health, harmful

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enervate

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to deprive of energy, to destroy the vigor

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epiphany

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an appearance or manifestation

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facetious

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not meant to be taken seriously or literally

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gauche

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lacking social grace or sensitivity, awkward

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hegemony

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leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, aggression or expansionism

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hubris

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excessive pride or self-confidence

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incognito

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having one's identity concealed

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inculcate

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to implant by repeated statement, to influence to accept an idea

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jejune

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without interest or significance, dull

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kowtow

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to act in an obsequious manner, to show compliance in worship

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laissez-faire

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noninterference in the affairs of others, such as in economics

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loquacious

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talking or tending to talk much or freely, talkative

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nihilism

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total rejection of establish laws, anarchy

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paradigm

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an example serving as a model, or pattern

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pecuniary

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of or pertaining to money

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plagiarize

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to take and use ideas, passages, etc from someone elses work

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precipitous

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extremely or impassably steep

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quotidian

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daily, usual or customary, everyday

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recapitulate

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to review by brief summary

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reciprocal

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given or felt by each toward the other

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reparation

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the making of amends for wrong or injury done

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sanguine

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cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident

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soliloquy

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the act of talking while or as if alone

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subjugate

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to bring under complete control or subjection, conquer, master

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supercilious

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disdainful

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tautology

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needless repetition

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totalitarian

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total control, control by force n tolerance of opionions

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unctuous

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excessively smug, a oily feeling

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usurp

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to hold without legal right

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vacuous

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empty, lacking content or intelligent ideas

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vehement

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zealous, intense, passion

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winnow

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allow the wind to blow away

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xenophobe

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fear of foreigners, or anything strange or different

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ziggurat

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the height, pinnacle, a tiered temple

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eclectic

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selecting or choosing from various sources, using the best from multiple sources

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fallacy

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a deceptive, misleading, or false nature

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laconic

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using few words, expressing much in few words, concise

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mosaic

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a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc

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participle

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a verbal form used as a adjective, as in burning: a burning candle, or devoted: his devoted friend

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phloem

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the part of a vascular bundle consisting of sieve tubes, companion cells, and fibers forming the food-conduction tissue of a plant

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solstice

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a turning point, either of the two points in the ecliptic farthest from the equator.

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vacillate

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to waver in mind or opinion

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virtuoso

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a person who has special knowledge or skill in a field

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voracious

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craving or consuming large quantities of food

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aberration

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the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course

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acerbic

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sour or astringent in taste, harsh or severe as of temper or expression

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admonish

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to caution, advise, or counsel against something

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altruistic

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unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others

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avarice

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insatiable greed for riches, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth

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clandestine

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characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, exp. for purposes of subversion or deception

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diatribe

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a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism

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disparage

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to belittle, to speak of or treat slightingly, to depreciate

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egregious

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extraordinary in some bad way, glaring, flagrant

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enigmatic

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resembling an enigma, perplexing, mysterious

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ennui

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a feeling of utter discontent

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esoteric

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understood by or meant for only the select

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ethereal

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light, airy, or tenuous, extremely delicate or refined

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flippant

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frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness

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foible

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a minor weakness or failing of character, a slight flaw or defect

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furtive

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taken, done, used by stealth, secret, sly, shifty

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hedonism

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the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good

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heretic

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a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church

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hiatus

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a break or interruption in the community of a work, series, action

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intrinsic

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belonging to a thing by its very nature: the intrinsic value of a gold ring

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lampoon

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satire

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lithe

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readily bending, limber

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malevolent

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wishing evil or harm to another or others

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maudlin

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tearfully or weakly emotional, overly sentimental, sappy

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paragon

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a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence

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pariah

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an outcast

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pedantic

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overly concerned with minute details or formalisms (in a bad way)

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pejorative

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having or disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force

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philistine

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a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values

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poignant

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keenly distressing, keen in strong or mental appeal, pulls on the heart strings