AP English vocab list

Adulation

High praise, flattery

Anachronistic

Out of date

Assiduous

Hard working, diligent

Censure

To criticize harshly

Circuitous

Indirect, roundabout

Deleterious

Harmful

Demagogue

Rabble rousing leader

Enervating

Tiring, weakening, exhausting

Ephemeral

Momentary, fleeting

Evanescent

Short lived, as an image

Extenuating

Guilt diminishing

Florid

Flushed, ornate, decorative

Hackneyed

Overused clich�d

Hedonist

Pleasure seeker

Impute

To attribute to someone, accredit, assign

Opulent

Wealthy

Ostentatious

Displaying wealth, classy

Perfidious

Disloyal, betraying

Prosaic

Run of the mill, dull, drab, boring

Querulous

Irritable, complaining, dissatisfied

Rancorous

Hateful, bitter, offended

Sagacity

Wisdom, experience, insight

Spurious

Phony, false, forged

Surreptitious

Secret, stealthy, sneaking, veiled

Transient

Temporary, fleeting, brief