AP Composition Vocab Words

• -To wait for: await
• -To endure without yielding
• -To bear patiently: tolerate
• -To accept without objection
• -To remain stable or fixed in a state

• -Acting against or in a contrary direction: hostile
• -Opposed to one's interests
• -Causing harm

• -Depending on individual discretion and not fixed by law
• -Not restrained or limited in the exercise of power: ruling by absolute authority
• -Based on or determined by indivdual preference or convience rather than by necessity or the intrinsic nature of something
• -Exsisting or coming about seemingly at random or by chance

• -Tending to overcome the distrust or hostility of, to placate or win over
• -Tending to win, gain, or make compatible

-One to whom secrets are entrusted

-To turn aside, discourage, or prevent from acting

-Hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of seld-confidence

• -Tending to evade grasp or pursuit
• -Hard to comprehend or define
• -Hard to isolate or identify

• -To excite the anger of: enrage
• -To cause irritation or annoyance to
• -To make more grievous

• -Irritated or annoyed, especially to the piont of injudicious action
• -Roughened with irregular prickles or elevations

-To clear from alleged fault or guilt

-Easily duped or cheated

• -Incapable of being corrected or amended
• -Not reformable: depraved, delinquet
• -Not manageable: unruly
• -Unalterable, inveterate

• -Unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true
• -Skeptical

• -Cannot be removed, eashed away or erased
• -Making marks that cannot be easily removed
• -Lasing, unforgettable

• -Huge, massive
• -Formed or composed of material without joints or seams
• -Constituting a massive undifferentiated and often rigid whole
• -Exhibiting or characerized by often rigidly fixed uniformity

• -Shade of color
• -A subtle distiction or variation
• -A subtle quality
• -Sensibility to, awareness of, or ability to express delicate shadings(of meaning, feeling, or value)

• -Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
• -Hardened in feeling
• -Resistant to persuasion or doftening influences
• -Inflexible

• -To throw violently: hurl
• -To throw down
• -To bring about abruptly
• -To cause to seperate from solution or suspension

-A product, result, or outcome of some process or action

• -Falling, flowing, or rushing with steep descent
• -Exhibiting violent or unwise speed

• -A characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry
• -Dull, unimaginative
• -Everyday, ordinary

-Having a quarrelsome or combative nature

• -Having or deserving of censure
• -Culpable

-Capable of being held, maintained, or defended

• -Exceeding usual limits, surpassing
• -Extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience
• -Being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge
• -Being beyond comprehension
• -Transcending the universe or material existence

• -Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions, winding
• -Having or marked by great volume or bulk, large
• -Numerous
• -Filling or capable of filling a large volume or several volumes
• -Writing or speaking much or at a great legnth

-To refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self denial from an action or practice

• -Characterized by unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others
• -Characterized by behavior by an animal that is not beneficial to or may be harmful to itself but that benefits others of its species

-Marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application

• -Marked by brevity of expression or statement, free from all elaboration and superfluous detail
• -Cut short, brief

• -To drive or beat back; repel
• -To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial
• -To cause repulsion in

• -Rebuff; rejection
• -The actions of repeeling an attacker: the fact of being repelled

• -Indicating small size and sometimes the state or quality of being familiarly known, loveable, pitable, or contemptible- used of affixes such as -ette, -kin, -ling, and words formed with them(kitchenette, manikin, duckling)
• -Exceptionally notable or small

-Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty, relentless

• -Suggestive of poor health: sickly, pallid
• -Lacking vitality: feeble
• -Dim, faint

-To grow or become pale or sickly

• -Exceptionally early in development or occurence
• -Exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age

• -To seperate, distinguish between
• -To detect with the eyes
• -To detect with other senses other than vision
• -To recognize and identify as seperate and distinct
• -To see or understand the difference

-To thoroughly overwhem or reduce to submission or passivity

-Slaughter

• -Not marked by careful distinction, deficent in discrimination and discernment
• -Haphazard, random
• -Promiscuous, unrestrained
• -Heterogeneous, motely

• -To make impossible by necessary consequence
• -Rule out in advance

• -To execute promptly
• -To accelerate the process or progress of: speed up
• -Issue, dispatch

• -To expose to view
• -To make known or public

• -Disassociated from any specific instance
• -Difficult to understand
• -Insufficently factual
• -Having only intrinsic form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation

• -To run counter to so as to effectively oppose or baffle
• -To oppose successfully: defeat the hopes ot aspirations of
• -To pass through or across

• -An obscure speech or writing
• -Something hard to understand or explain
• -An inscrutable or mysterious person

• -To give and take mutually
• -To return in kind or degree
• -To make a return for something
• -To mave forward and backward alternately

• -To throw together
• -Interpretation of omens
• -Supposition
• -Inference from defective or presumptive evidence before it has been proved or disproved

-A small village

• -Habitually complaining
• -Fretful, whining

-Characterized by friendly goodwill, peaceable

• -A person sent ahead to provide lodgings
• -One that pioneers in or initiates a major change: precursor
• -One that presages or foreshadows what is to come

• -Passing especially quickly into and out of exstence: transitory
• -Passing through or by a place with only a brief stay or sojourn
• -Affecting something or producing results beyond itself

• -One that is a guest
• -A person travelling about usually in search of work
• -A temporary oscillation that occurs in a circuit because of a sudden change of voltage or load

• -A timid dispostion, fearful
• -Expressing or suggesting timidity

• -Having originated in and being produced, growing, living, or ocurring naturally in a particuale region or enviroment
• -Innate, inborn

• -To deprive of pocession or propriety rights
• -To transfer the property of another to one's own pocession

-Incapable of being subdued: unconquerable

• -Standing out so to be readily percieved or noted: conspicuous
• -Jutting out: projecting
• -Exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or postion: prominent

-Flagantly wicked or impious: evil

-Involved in the constitution or essential character of something: belong by nature or habit: intrinsic

• -Government by the few
• -A govenrment in which a small group exercises control, especially for corrupt and selfish putposes

• -Not exhaustible
• -Incapable of being used up
• -Incapable of being wearied or worn out

• -Sympathy with another in sorrow
• -An expression of sympathy

• -Involving, imposing, or constituting a burden: troublesome
• -Having legal obligations that outweigh the advantages

• -Producing no injury: harmless
• -Not likely to give offense or to arouse srong feelings or hostility: inoffensive, insipid

-Having or showing shrewdness or perspicacity

-Concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions

• -To go beyond the limits set or prescribed by: violate
• -To pass beyond or go over a limit or boundary
• -To violate a command or law: sin

• -Exsisitng in, belonging to, or determinded by factors present in an individual from birth: native, innborn
• -Belonging to the essential nature of something: inherent
• -Orginating in or derived from the mind or the constitution of the intellect rather than from experience

• -A period of temporary delay: reprieve
• -An interval of rest or relief

• -To unburden
• -To relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship
• -To clear from accusation or blame

-Of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations

-To turn aside, especially from the main subject of attention or course of arguement

-A great number

• -Innumerable
• -Having innumerable aspects or elements

• -Generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence
• -Cheerful, gay

-An act or instance of making us eof something meanly on unjustly for one's own advantage

-Filled with or characterized by eagerness and ardent intrest in pursuit of something

• -Hackneyed or boring from much use
• -Not fresch or original

• -Marked by repeated twists, neds, or twists: winding
• -Marked by devious or indirect tatics: crooked, tricky
• -Circuitous

• -Inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech: reserved
• -Restrained in expression, presentation, or apperance
• -Reluctant

• -A defendant's answer to the plantiff's replication
• -An answer to a reply

• -To prove wrong by arguement or evidence: show to be false or erroneous
• -To deny the truth or accuracy of

• -An introductory performance, action, or event preceding or preparing for the principal or more important matter
• -A musical section or movement introducing the theme or chief subject or seving as an introduction to an opera or oratario
• -An opening voluntary
• -A seperate concert piece usually for piano ot orchestra and based entirely on a short motif

• -To give or serve as a prelude to
• -To play a musical introduction

-Marked by or fond of conspicuous or vainglorious and sometimes pretentious display

• -Exhibiting or characterized by opulence
• -Having a large estate or property: wealthy
• -Amply or plentifully provided or fashioned often to the point of ostentation

• -To sting or strike as if with nettles
• -To arouse to sharb by transitory annoyance or anger

• -Any of a genus of chiefly course herbs armed with stinging hairs
• -Any of the various prickly or stinging palnts other than the true nettles

• -To cover with a flood: overflow
• -Overwhelm

• -Known or percieved ny intution: directly apprehended
• -Knowable by intuition
• -Knowing or percieving by intuition
• -Processing or given to intuition or insight

-Consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents: mixed

• -Not forming part of or belonging to a thing: extraneous
• -Originating from or on the outside: originating outside a part and acting upon the part as a whole
• -External

• -To lessen or try to lessen the seriousness or extent of by making partial excuses: mitigate
• -To lessen the strength or effore of

-One's attendants or associates

• -To degrade by marriage below one's class
• -To lower in rank or reputation: degrade
• -To depreciate by indirect means: speak slightly about

• -Lacking in candor
• -Giving a false apperance of simple frankness

• -To support with evidence or authority
• -To make more certain

• -To charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly
• -To summon by or as if by invocaton or incantation
• -To affect or effect by or as if by magic
• -Imagine, contrive
• -To bring to mind
• -To summon a devil or spirit by invocation or incantation
• -To practice magical arts

• -Acting in a happy lighthearted character or dispostion
• -Lacking due to thought or consideration: casual, heedless

-Showing an analogy or a likeness that permits one to draw and analogy

• -Ridculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous
• -Having no rational or orderly relationship to human life: meaningless
• -Lacking order or value

-The state or condition in which human beings exsist in an irrational and meaningless universe and in which human life has no ultimate meaning