AP Lang Vocabulary

Vigilance

Watchfulness, alertness

Decry

To expose and denounce

Petulant

Childishly stubborn

Gainsay

Deny, contradict

Reconcile

To right a previous wrong

Farce

A humorous imitation of a serious situation

Insidious

Subtly harmful

Sepulcher

A vault in which someone is buried

Extemporaneous

Performed without preparation

Fecund

Able to produce a high amount of imaginative work

Expurgate

To remove passages thought to be offensive

Expropriate

To take funds from something

Excogitate

To think hard about something complicated

Effusive

Flowery language

Pedantic

Too concerned with details especially language

Jeremaids

A long speech or complaints

Anecdote

Short story

Enumerate

To name things one by one

Ineluctable

Inescapable

Tirades

Angry speech

Inveigle

Pressuring a good person to go bad

Sanguine

Optimistic

Compunction

Feeling shame

Parochial

Concerned with local issues

Taciturn

Untalkative