AP List Of Useful Words

AP List of Useful Words

Objectives: This list is designed to give you a good set of tools for both writing and test-taking. The manipulation activity that we will perform with this list will aid you in both your writing, as well as aiding your depth of understanding of the AP test itself.

List courtesy of : http://www.mshogue.com/AP/vocab%20list%2006_07.pdf

First semester—You are responsible for defining 20 words a week. In addition, you are also responsible for appropriate use of the word in a sentence (see http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ for good examples)
Due on day of Vocabulary quiz ( approximately every two weeks)

Second semester: Each person will be responsible for ______ words. You will need to create a one-word definition,
state the part of speech (whether adjective, etc.), and determine a subsection under which the word should be placed. In this manner, each student will have a tool-box of useful words that they may use to edify their writing. Note: If you recall a word that might benefit our list—toss it in!
The sections that you should consider for placement are:

1. Author/character’s attitude 2. Author’s writing style 3. Character description (positive) 4. Character description (negative), 5. Character description ( feminine) 6. Character description (masculine) 7. Emotionally charged words (positive) 8. Emotionally charged words ( negative) 9. Miscellaneous

Word List:

1. allocation
2. ascetic
3. beguile
4. crass
5. defray
6. dint
7. enjoin
8. envoy
9. interloper
10.vicarious
11.admonish
12.akimbo
13.lassitude
14.licentious
15.muse (noun and verb)
16. pecuniary
17.plight
18.presumptuous
19.subversive
20.vacuous
21.avocation
22.capricious
23.disparity
24.efficacy
25.epistle
26.hospice
27.impetus
28.moribund
29.reticent
30.vacillate
31.akin
32.corroborate
33.inexorable
34.insipid
35.nefarious
36.physiognomy
37.retinue
38.suppliant
39.tedium
40.torrid
41.affront
42.blasé
43.cajole
44.choleric
45.encumber
46.feckless
47.impasse
48.indolent
49.lugubrious
50.ribald
51.adulation
52.censure
53.dissemble
54.dissimulation
55.droll
56.expectorate
57.palpate
58.peremptory
59.pusillanimous
60.surfeit
61.allay
62.capacious
63.diurnal
64.extricate
65.ignominious
66.mitigate
67.palpitate
68.phlegmatic
69.propitious
70.prostrate
71.acquiesce
72.amity
73.arduous
74.gestalt
75.inundate
76.perjury
77.perspicuity
78.preposterous
79.trepidation
80.voluble
81.admonish
82.aplomb
83.barrage
84.cognizant
85.collusion
86.hegemony
87.nebulous
88.paradigm
89.unctuous
90.urbane
91.ambulatory
92.brazen
93.din
94.ennui
95.exonerate
96.inscrutable
97.prognosticate
98.schism
99.sedition
100.wizened
101.austere
102.corpulent
103.derisive
104.effeminate
105.jocund
106.manifest
107.ostentatious
108.sanguine
109.strident
110.vehement
111.elegiac
112.fecund
113.fortuitous
114.infirmity
115.malady
116.nuance
117.profligate
118.remonstrance
119.scintillate
120.vitiate
121.analogous
122.brigand
123.emissary
124.felicity
125.incendiary
126.magnanimous
127.plight
128.repartee
129.ubiquitous
130.venerable
131.countenance
132.deposition
133.discursive
134.disdain
135.epigram
136.feign
137.laconic
138.mien
139.veracity
140.wry
141.confound
142.curate (noun and verb)
143.ethereal
144.gambol
145.mutability
146.nascent
147.nonplused
148.pedantic
149.quail (verb)
150.rhetorical
151.fatuous
152.febrile
153.furtive
154.incredulous
155.interminable
156.obliquely
157.pernicious
158.sardonic
159.ultimatum
160.writhe
161.astute
162.beseech
163.capitulate
164.deprecating
165.glean
166.obfuscate
167.pathos
168.primeval
169.salubrious
170.solicitous
171.albeit
172.bereft
173.gratis
174.intercession
175.lineaments
176.presage
177.prodigal
178.prolixity
179.sinecure
180.visage
181.accordant
182.accouterments
183.deportment
184.exposition
185.impugn
186.impute
187.parapet
188.pertinacity
189.temperance
190.viands
191.brevity
192.copious
193.gout
194.habiliments
195.irksome
196.ponderous
197.scrupulous
198.sundry
199.timorous
200.transcendent
201.amorous
202.benign
203.dissolute
204.ebullient
205.entourage
206.extol
207.languid
208.meet (not in the rendezvous sense)
209.resolute
210.turgid
211.chastening
212.corporeal
213.derive
214.dubious
215.equivocal
216.errant
217.goad
218.languor
219.resplendent
220.ruminate
221.assail
222.beget
223.bellicose
224.delusion
225.discourse
226.garrison
227.recourse
228.tumultuous
229.vexation
230.vigilant
231.auspicious
232. cavil
233.conducive
234.emulate
235. fungible
236.garrulous
237.imperious
238.morose
239.proprietary
240.zeal
241.verbose
242. colloquial
243. trite
244. bombastic
245. antithetical
246. emphatic
247. unified
248.coherent
249. somber
250. destitute