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AP English Language and Compisition Vocabulary - 2
These are the words from Chapters 11-35 that will be on the quiz.
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English
11th Grade
09/14/2009

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Chagrined
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Humiliated and embarrassed
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Charlatan
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A fake who pretends to be an expert.
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Churlish
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surly, stingy, and hard to manage
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Circuitous
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Using roundabout evasions to be untruthful.
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Complacent
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Self-satisfied and smug
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Conniving
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feigning ignorance of another's wrongdoing or to cooperate secretly in an evil scheme
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Cowering
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Crouch or shrink in fear
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Crass
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Rude with insensitivity and extremely gross
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Credulous
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Easily convinced
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Culpable
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deserving of blame
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Debased
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Lowered or cheapened in value or dignity
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Decrepit
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Broken down or worn out by old age.
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Defamatory
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Slanderous, likely to damage someone's reputation
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Denigrating
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Belittle another's reputation by blackening it
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Derisive
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Contemptuous or mocking
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Diabolical
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To have attributes of the devil
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Didactic
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Instructive, or intended to give moral instruction
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Discombobulated
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Completely perplexed and/or frustrated
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Disgruntled
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Made unhappy or cross
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Disparaging
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To put someone down or to speak slightingly of others
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Dissolute
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Immoral and/or dissipated
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Dogmatic
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Arrogantly opinionated
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Dolorous
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Exhibits, brings about, or entails sorrow or pain
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Effete
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Infertile or unable to produce ; weakness caused by self indulgence and decadence
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Elitist
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One who believes government should be controlled by the richest, smartest, or most powerful.
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Enigmatic
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Filled with riddles or puzzles
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Ephemeral
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Fleeting, transitory, or short lived
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Euphuistic
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Blows like Mt. Saint Helens
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Exacting
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Demanding, entailing rigorous effort or attention to detail
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Factious
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Stirring up strife between unsuspecting clans
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Fallacious
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contains an error or is misleading and deceptive
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Fastidious
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Not easy to please and too refined. Easily disgusted
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Feral
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To be wild
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Festering
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Filled with pus or bitterness
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Filching
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Given to stealing
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Flippant
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To talk inappropriately with a lack of seriousness about a serious topic
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Flummoxed
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Bewildered and confused
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Fretful
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Worrying too much
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Furtive
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Secretive and goes about in a sneaky, sly way
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Galling
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Irritating or exasperating
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Garrulous
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Excessively talkative about insignificant matters
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Grandiloquent
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Pompous and bombastic
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Groveling
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Cower in a prostate position
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Hackneyed
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So trite or cliche it's annoying
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Hapless
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without luck
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Histrionic
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overacts with buffoonish hilarity
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Iconoclastic
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Attacks traditional beliefs and values
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Dour
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Serious and gloomy
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Dyspeptic
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Impaired digestion or grouchy
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Gaunt
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Thin and bony
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