AP English Literature & Composition
Master Vocabulary List
You are responsible for ten words per week to be quizzed on each Wednesday. Quizzes will be
as follows: you will define the word given and use it in a sentence with contextual clues that
help define it further on the given topic for the week. I suggest you know the part of speech; if
the word functions equally as two parts of speech (a noun and a verb, for example) know the
meanings for each. When you write your sentences, you may use various forms of the word:
adjective, adverb, or any verb tense, provided you use the form correctly. The quizzes are worth
10 points each.
Where do these words come from? This is a great question. They come from the works we read
in class, but they also come from old AP test passages and questions.
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List One
1. allocation
2. ascetic
3. beguile
4. crass
5. defray
6. dint
7. enjoin
8. envoy
9. interloper
10. vicarious
List Four
1. akin
2. corroborate
3. inexorable
4. insipid
5. nefarious
6. physiognomy
7. retinue
8. suppliant
9. tedium
10. torrid
List Seven
1. allay
2. capacious
3. diurnal
4. extricate
5. ignominious
6. mitigate
7. palpitate
8. phlegmatic
9. propitious
10. prostrate
List Two
1. admonish
2. akimbo
3. lassitude
4. licentious
5. muse (noun and verb)
6. pecuniary
7. plight
8. presumptuous
9. subversive
10. vacuous
List Five
1. affront
2. blasé
3. cajole
4. choleric
5. encumber
6. feckless
7. impasse
8. indolent
9. lugubrious
10. ribald
List Eight
1. acquiesce
2. amity
3. arduous
4. gestalt
5. inundate
6. perjury
7. perspicuity
8. preposterous
9. trepidation
10. voluble
List Three
1. avocation
2. capricious
3. disparity
4. efficacy
5. epistle
6. hospice
7. impetus
8. moribund
9. reticent
10. vacillate
List Six
1. adulation
2. censure
3. dissemble
4. dissimulation
5. droll
6. expectorate
7. palpate
8. peremptory
9. pusillanimous
10. surfeit
List Nine
1. admonish
2. aplomb
3. barrage
4. cognizant
5. collusion
6. hegemony
7. nebulous
8. paradigm
9. unctuous
10. urbane
List Ten
1. ambulatory
2. brazen
3. din
4. ennui
5. exonerate
6. inscrutable
7. prognosticate
8. schism
9. sedition
10. wizened
List Fifteen
1. confound
2. curate (noun & verb)
3. ethereal
4. gambol
5. mutability
6. nascent
7. nonplused
8. pedantic
9. quail (verb)
10. rhetorical
List Twenty
1. brevity
2. copious
3. gout
4. habiliments
5. irksome
6. ponderous
7. scrupulous
8. sundry
9. timorous
10. transcendent
List Eleven
1. austere
2. corpulent
3. derisive
4. effeminate
5. jocund
6. manifest
7. ostentatious
8. sanguine
9. strident
10. vehement
List Sixteen
1. fatuous
2. febrile
3. furtive
4. incredulous
5. interminable
6. obliquely
7. pernicious
8. sardonic
9. ultimatum
10. writhe
List Twenty-one
1. amorous
2. benign
3. dissolute
4. ebullient
5. entourage
6. extol
7. languid
8. meet (not rendezvous)
9. resolute
10. turgid
List Twelve
1. elegiac
2. fecund
3. fortuitous
4. infirmity
5. malady
6. nuance
7. profligate
8. remonstrance
9. scintillate
10. vitiate
List Seventeen
1. astute
2. beseech
3. capitulate
4. deprecating
5. glean
6. obfuscate
7. pathos
8. primeval
9. salubrious
10. solicitous
List Twenty-two
1. chastening
2. corporeal
3. derive
4. dubious
5. equivocal
6. errant
7. goad
8. languor
9. resplendent
10. ruminate
List Thirteen
1. analogous
2. brigand
3. emissary
4. felicity
5. incendiary
6. magnanimous
7. plight
8. repartee
9. ubiquitous
10. venerable
List Eighteen
1. albeit
2. bereft
3. gratis
4. intercession
5. lineaments
6. presage
7. prodigal
8. prolixity
9. sinecure
10. visage
List Twenty-three
1. assail
2. beget
3. bellicose
4. delusion
5. discourse
6. garrison
7. recourse
8. tumultuous
9. vexation
10. vigilant
List Fourteen
1. countenance
2. deposition
3. discursive
4. disdain
5. epigram
6. feign
7. laconic
8. mien
9. veracity
10. wry
List Nineteen
1. accordant
2. accouterments
3. deportment
4. exposition
5. impugn
6. impute
7. parapet
8. pertinacity
9. temperance
10. viands
List Twenty-four
1. auspicious
2. cavil
3. conducive
4. emulate
5. fungible
6. garrulous
7. imperious
8. morose
9. proprietary
10. zeal