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AP Language and Composition SAT Vocabulary, Roots, Schemes/Tropes and Tone Words
The lists below are the SAT words, Greek roots, schemes/tropes and tone words we will be studying SECOND
SEMESTER. Please do not lose this list. ONE hard copy will be provided for you; if you misplace this list, it is your
responsibility to go to school wires and print a new one. Please remember to use the Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary
website for help!
UNIT 8
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Acrimonious (adj)
2. Bovine (n/adj)
3. Consternation (n)
4. Corpulent (adj)
Disavow (v)
6. Dispassionate (adj) 7. Dissension (n)
8. Dissipate (v)
Expurgate (v)
10. Gauntlet (n)
11. Hypothetical (adj) 12. Ignoble (adj)
Impugn (v)
14. Intemperate (adj) 15. Odium (n)
16. Perfidy (n)
Relegate (v)
18. Squeamish (adj)
19. Subservient (adj) 20. Susceptible (adj)
ROOTS 106-120: oligo---phlegma ; ALL 6 terms under “Comparisons” ***any of the schemes or
former terms is up for grabs on the quiz as well. Keep these terms fresh in your mind. 
TONE WORDS: emotional, epistolary, erudite, eulogistic, and evocative
UNIT 9
1. Abate (v)
2. Adulation (n)
3. Anathema (n)
4. Astute (adj)
5. Avarice (n)
6. Culpable (adj)
7. Dilatory (adj)
8. Egregious (adj)
9. Equivocate (v)
10. Evanescent (adj)
11. Irresolute (adj)
12. Nebulous (adj)
13. Novice (n)
14. Penury (n)
15. Pretentious (adj)
16. Recapitulate (v)
17. Resuscitate (v)
18. Slovenly (adj/adv) 19. Supposition (n)
20. Torpid (adj)
ROOTS 121-135:phobia, phobos---prim, prime; ALL 6 terms under “Comparisons,” ALL 3 terms
under “Word Play” ***any of the schemes or former terms is up for grabs on the quiz as well.
Keep these terms fresh in your mind. 
TONE WORDS: expressionistic, facetious, farcical, fatalistic and flamboyant
UNIT 10
1. Accrue (v)
2. Annotation (n)
3. Bedlam (n)
4. Covert (adj/n)
5. Debonair (adj)
6. Dun (adj/v/n)
7. Efficacious (adj)
8. Equanimity (n)
9. Fortuitous (adj)
10. Gist (n)
11. Gratuitous (adj)
12. Imperious (adj)
13. Invective (adj)
14. Motley (adj/n)
15. Munificent (adj)
16. Procrastinate (v)
17. Provocative (adj) 18. Recondite (adj)
19. Reprobate (n/adj/v) 20. Sedentary (adj)
ROOTS 136-150: proto---string, strict ; ALL 3 terms under “Word Play,” Both terms under
“Overstatement/Understatement,” ALL 8 terms under “Management of Meaning” ***any of
the schemes or former terms is up for grabs on the quiz as well. Keep these terms fresh in
your mind. 
TONE WORDS: fluid, iconoclastic, impressionistic, ironic and irreverent
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UNIT 11
1. Abstemious (adj)
2. Censurable (adj)
3. Contingent (adj)
4. Corroborate (v)
5. Denizen (n/v)
6. Discursive (adj)
7. Disseminate (v)
8. Dowdy (adj)
9. Florid (adj)
10. Foist (v)
11. Gauche (adj)
12. Heresy (n)
13. Inculcate (v)
14. Palpable (adj)
15. Perceptive (adj)
16. Pernicious (adj)
17. Salient (adj)
18. Satiate (adj/v)
19. Sear (v)
20. Specious (adj)
ROOTS 151-165: stru, struct---typ ; ALL 8 terms under “Management of Meaning,” antanaclasis,
paronomasia, syllepsis, auxesus, allegory, allusion, ambiguity, antithesis, aphorism, and apostrophe
***any of the schemes or former terms is up for grabs on the quiz as well. Keep these terms fresh in
your mind. 
TONE WORDS: journalistic, lyrical, metaphorical, mournful, and mundane
UNIT 12
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Absolve (v)
2. Caricature (n)
3. Clangor (v/n)
4. Contiguous (adj)
Cupidity (n)
6. Deleterious (adj)
7. Enhance (v)
8. Enthrall (v)
Extenuate (v)
10. Implicit (adj)
11. Incisive (adj)
12. Ostentatious (adj)
Paragon (n/v)
14. Paraphrase (n/v)
15. Politic (adj)
16. Prosaic (adj)
Redundant (adj)
18. Sanctimonious (adj) 19. Scintillating (adj)
20. Winsome (adj)
ROOTS 166-175: ultima---zo; ALL 8 terms under “Management of Meaning,” epigraph, epithet,
dysphemism, euphemism, farce, homily, idiom, and parody ***any of the schemes or former terms is
up for grabs on the quiz as well. Keep these terms fresh in your mind. 
TONE WORDS: naturalistic, nostalgic, objective ominous, and parody
UNIT 13
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Abet (v)
Buttress (n)
Disconsolate (adj)
Herculean (adj)
Nonplussed (n/v)
2. Aver (v)
6. Carousal (n)
10. Encumber (v)
14. Impassive (adj)
18. Opportune (adj)
3. Blatant (adj)
7. Collate (v)
11. Foment (v)
15. Inauspicious (adj)
19. Prolific (adj)
4. Broach (n/v)
8. Connoisseur (n)
12. Grisly (adj)
16. Incontrovertible (adj)
20. Rejoinder (n)
ROOTS 1-175: acer, acid, acri---zo ; ALL 8 terms under “Management of Meaning,” malapropism, motif,
parable, symbol, archetype, and hypophora ***any of the schemes or former terms is up for grabs on the
quiz as well. Keep these terms fresh in your mind. 
TONE WORDS: persuasive, philosophical, pious, poetical, pompous
UNIT 14
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Amenable (adj)
2. Berate (v)
3. Carnage (n)
4. Credulous (adj)
Criterion (n)
6. Deplete (v)
7. Expatiate (v)
8. Extraneous (adj)
Inception (n)
10. Infirmity (n)
11. Jejune (adj)
12. Obdurate (adj)
Potpourri (n)
14. Precocious (adj)
15. Sadistic (adj)
16. Sententious (adj)
Supplicate (v)
18. Surfeit (n/v)
19. Tortuous (adj)
20. Turgid (adj)
ROOTS 1-175: acer, acid, acri---zo ; ***any of the schemes or tropes is up for grabs on the quiz as
well. Keep these terms fresh in your mind. 
TONE WORDS: primitive, prurient, psychological, puritanical, realistic, rhythmic, romantic, sardonic, stark,
and subjective