3rd Set AP VOCABULARY

1. Impinge (im PINJ) – interfere with
a. The babies impinge with the basketball game because he had run across court; therefore, the game had to come to a stop till the babies got off the court.
2. Lament (luh MENT) – express grief for
a. Michael Jacksons’ fans were lamenting his death.
3. Melancholy (MEL un kaw lee) – sadness; depression
a. The soccer team fell into a state of melancholy after they lost their first playoff game.
4. Sanction (SANK shun) – an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
a. The United States imposed military sanctions of Iraq.
5. Truncated (TRUN kay tid) – shortened; cut off
a. Rykeem’s orange was truncated; a big piece was missing.
6. Aesthetic (es THET ik) – having to do with the appreciation of beauty
a. The color scheme on the painting was an aesthetic combination.
7. Anthology (an THAH luh jee) – a collection of literary pieces
a. When I was younger, I had an anthology of all Clifford books.
8. Contemporary (kun TEM po rer ee) – current, modern; from the same time
a. By adding stainless steal appliances makes your living space more contemporary.
9. Dilettante (dih luh TAHNT) – a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge
a. The dilettante construct a house based on a model house made up of Legos.
10. Eclectic (uh KLEK tik) – made up of a variety of sources or styles
a. Usher style is very eclectic; he uses different styles of clothing to make up his own style.
11. Excerpt (EK serpt) – a selected part of a passage or scene
a. Susan makes us write about an excerpt in the novels we read and instructs us to dig deeper.
12. Genre (ZHAHN ruh) – describing a category or artistic endeavor
a. He never listens to any other genre, other than rap.
13. Medley (MED lee) – an assortment or mixture, especially of musical pieces
a. When Dave plays the piano, he produces a soothing medley that put me to sleep.
14. Mural (MYUR ul) – a large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
a. When they painted the mural in the gym, I thought it could have been bettered painted and outlined.
15. Narrative (NAR uh tiv) – characterized by the telling of a story; a story
a. The narrative gave us a better understanding about the Navajo culture.
16. Parody (PAR uh dee) – an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
a. Dave Chappelle makes parodies of different videos; he reproduces certain videos and adds humor to them.
17. Realism (REE uh liz um) – artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
a. When people paint pictures, they try to illustrate realism to make people feel as if they are there in real life.
18. Virtuoso (ver choo OH so) – a tremendously skilled artist
a. Many people say that Usher is a virtuoso singer because of how young he hit the music industry.
19. Decorous (DEK er us) – proper; marked by good taste
a. The referee was thankful the players played decorous basketball.
20. Equanimity ( ek wuh NIM uh tee) – the quality of being calm; composure
a. The statistic class showed great equanimity, when they realized the AP Statistic test was just a week away.
21. Modest (MAH dist) - quiet or humble in manner or appearance
a. The neighborhood that we moved into is very modest because a bunch of old people live there.
22. Propriety ( pruh PRY uh tee) – appropriateness of behavior
a. He realized the seventh grades had no sense of propriety, when they all fell asleep while the speaker was talking.
23. Prudent (PROO dunt) – exercising good judgment or common sense
a. He acted out of prudent, when they asked him whether or not he was going to study or out.
24. Serene (suh REEN) – calm
a. The serene ocean brought me comfort; it was very calm.
25. Staid (STAYD) – unemotional; serious
a. I became very staid, when they told me I was not going to be able to graduate if I missed a day.
26. Stoic (STOW ik) – can endure pain or hardship, without showing emotion
a. Hazel was stoic in accepting his punishment. He did not show any emotion.
27. Condemn (kun DEM) – to express strong disapproval of
a. My father condemned the idea of me getting a tattoo. He did not approve with the idea of me marking my body.
28. Discredit (dis CRED it) – to cause to be doubted
a. Many creationist discredit Darwinism.
29. Disparage (dis PAR uj) – to represent as being of little worth
a. Apple disparaged the MP3 player. They showed the MP3 player as being of little worth, after coming out with the Ipod.
30. Pejorative (puh JOR uh tiv) – describing words or phases that belittle someone
a. Older students should not use such pejorative words stupid or shut up when talking to younger students.
31. Plagiarism (PLAY juh riz um) – the act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as your own
a. On my last essay I was accused of plagiarism, because I copied and pasted an article off the New York Times and try to pass it off as my own.
32. Vilify (VIL uh fye) – to make vicious statements about
a. When running for election, presidents vilify their opponent to make others hate the other candidate.
33. Brusque (BRUSK) – rudely abrupt
a. DH is a very brusque person; he never lets anybody finish talking. He is always cutting people off.
34. Caustic (KAW stik) – bitingly sarcastic or witty
a. He caustic comments about his teacher.
35. Fractious (FRAK shus) – quarrelsome; unruly
a. The senior class is known to be a fractious group that doesn’t listen to anybody.
36. Incorrigible (in KOR ij uh bul) – unable to reform
a. The house was incorrigible. No matter how many times they tried to fix it, it kept failing down.
37. Ingrate (IN grayt) – an ungrateful person
a. The ingrate never gave thanks to his parents for providing him with a roof over his head. He always asked for more, he was never satisfied with what they gave him.
38. Insolent (IN suh lunt) – insulting in manner or speech
a. It was very insolent of him to fall a sleep while David Heinzerling lectured.
39. Notorious (no TOR ee us) – infamous
a. Biggie Smalls is known for his notorious acts across New York.
40. Pugnacious (pug NAY shus) – combative; belligerent
a. The pugnacious child always wanted to fight people.
41. Reprehensible (rep ree HEN si bul) – worthy of blame
a. He was reprehensible for the broken window in the dorm.
42. Brittle (BRIT ul) – easily broken when subjected to pressure
a. The bread was very brittle, every time I picked it up it broke.
43. Deleterious (del uh TEER ee us) – having a harmful effect
a. War is known to have a deleterious effect on soldiers.
44. Enmity (EN muh tee) – mutual hatred
a. There was great enmity between the two basketball teams; they were rivals.
45. Heinous (HAY nus) – hatefully evil; a wrongful act
a. Putting mud in all the seventh graders shoes was a heinous but funny act.
46. Malfeasance (mal FEEZ uns) – wrongdoing; misconduct
a. The student was accused of malfeasance, after he was caught cheating.
47. Malice (MAL is) – extreme ill-will or spite
a. With such malice towards the upper school student, he burned all their bed sheets.
48. Putrid (PYOO trid) – rotten
a. The putrid apple filled the air in the classroom with such a nasty smell.
49. Rancorous (RANK er us) – hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
a. The rancorous old man, always cursed out the middle school students when they walked on his property on the way to school.
50. Toxic (TaKH sik) – poisonous
a. The atmosphere contains many toxics that life threatening to humans.
51. Archaic ( ar KAY ik) – old fashioned
a. The archaic typewriter was put on display to show students how they use to type back in the old days.
52. Hackneyed (HACK need) – worn out through overuse
a. I had a pair of hackneyed jeans that I wore when during outside work around the house.
53. Medieval (med EE vul) – referring to the middle ages
a. For class, we are learning about the medieval period.
54. Obsolete (ahb suh LEET) – no longer in use
a. Tape player became obsolete after companies began producing CDs.
55. Austere (aw STEER) – without decoration; strict
a. The dull walls and old wooden floors provided the house with an austere look.
56. Mediocrity (mee dee AH krit ee) – the state of being average
a. The work that the seniors produce was mediocre according to DH. The presentations were average nothing was over the top.
57. Mundane (mun DAYN) – commonplace; ordinary
a. I hate going to the wave pool after school because it is so mundane; it just an ordinary place that we go to every year.
58. Ponderous (PAHN duh rus) – extremely dull
a. Palace Walk is not a ponderous novel, something interesting is always happening throughout the novel.
59. Prosaic (pro ZAY ik) – unimaginative; dull
a. His drawing was prosaic. There wasn’t any imaginative or creative about it.
60. Sedentary (SHE dun tair ee) – settled; inactive
a. Here at Chinquapin students aren’t sedentary, they are always moving around from place to place. They are never seated in the spot for more than two hours.
61. Apprehension (ap reh HEN shun) – anxiety or fear about the future
a. I felt apprehension about the upcoming AP exam, so I decided to start studying now.
62. Harbinger (HAR bin jer) – something that indicates what is to come
a. A cloudy dark sky is a harbinger of rain. Whenever the sky gets dark and cloudy, it is more than likely to rain.
63. Ominous (AH min us) – threatening
a. Every time somebody is about to get killed in horror movies, they play ominous music.
64. Premonition (prem uh NISH un) – feeling about the future
a. I had a premonition that I was going to fall off the stage at graduation.
65. Timorous (TIM uh rus) – timid; fearful about the future
a. I was timorous; I was afraid that one day I’d fall and break my leg.
66. Trepidation (trep uh DAY shun) – uncertainly; apprehension
a. We approach Ray with trepidation because we weren’t sure whether or not he was going to agree to let us leave campus.
67. Innovative (IN no vay tiv) - introducing something new
a. Ben Stein gave an innovative speech about Darwinism. He described it in a way that nobody has ever described Darwinism.
68. Naïve (nah YEEV) – lacking experience
a. The naïve basketball player thought he knew everything about the game he need to know, but in reality he still lacked experience.
69. Nascent (NAY sunt) – coming into existence
a. My life changed when the nascent newborn came into my life, because they more attention to the baby.
70. Novel (NAH vul) – strikingly new or unusual
a. My novel take on how to beat a trapped in basketball, impressed my coach so much he began teaching to everybody.