AP Vocabulary

AP English Literature & Composition Vocabulary List 

Directions: 

• You will learn a list set every week or two in the order they appear (as assigned)
• Copy down the word into your composition book  
• Find and copy the part(s) of speech and definition(s)
• Produce an example sentence following the instruction (for example, for list 1, the first ten words, you will compose sentences that feature compound constructions and are set in cathedrals)
• If you work ahead, just know that I may change a few words in an upcoming list based on words I see in the week's readings (especially true with poetry in quarter 3).  

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List 1: Sentence Pattern: Compound Sentences in Cathedrals

allocation
ascetic
beguile
crass
defray
dint
enjoin
envoy
interloper
10.vicarious



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List 2: Complex Sentences of Conspiracy Theory

admonish 
akimbo
lassitude
licentious
muse (noun and verb)
pecuniary
typology
presumptuous
subversive
vacuous
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List 3: Chiasmus in Convalescent Homes

avocation
capricious
disparity
efficacy
epistle
hospice
impetus
moribund
reticent
vacillate
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List 4: Loose Sentences in Louisiana

akin
corroborate
inexorable
insipid
nefarious
physiognomy
retinue
suppliant
tedium
torrid
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List 5: Periodic Sentences on Poets or Poetry

affront
blasé
cajole
choleric
cavalier
feckless
impasse
indolent
lugubrious
ribald
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List 6: Please incorporate quotations into your sentences this week.

adulation
censure
dissemble
dissimulation
droll
expectorate
palpate
peremptory
pusillanimous
surfeit
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List 7: Compose sentences with assonance. 

allay
capacious
diurnal
extricate
ignominious
mitigate
palpitate
phlegmatic
propitious
prostrate
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List 8: Compose sentences featuring consonance.

acquiesce
amity
arduous
gestalt
inundate
perjury
perspicuity
preposterous
trepidation
voluble
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List 9: Each sentence must illustrate some new or challenging device and have a semicolon or colon.
Please label each sentence with the device incorporated.


autumnal 
ablution 
charactery 
collusion 
eremite 
garners
moors
nebulous
paradigm
unctuous
urbane
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List 10: Incorporate bold words from the
usage list into each sentence.

ambulatory
brazen
din
ennui
exonerate
inscrutable
prognosticate
schism
sedition
wizened
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List 11: Colons in Dickensian Sentences

austere
corpulent
derisive
effeminate
jocund
manifest
ostentatious
sanguine
strident
vehement
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List 12:

elegiac
fecund
fortuitous
infirmity
malady
nuance
profligate
remonstrance
scintillate
vitiate
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analogous
brigand
emissary
felicity
incendiary
magnanimous
plight
repartee
ubiquitous
venerable
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countenance
deposition
discursive
disdain
epigram
feign
laconic
mien
veracity
wry
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confound
curate (noun and verb)
ethereal
gambol
mutability
nascent
nonplussed
pedantic
quail (verb)
rhetorical
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fatuous
febrile
furtive
incredulous
interminable
obliquely
pernicious
sardonic
ultimatum
writhe
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astute
beseech
capitulate
deprecating
glean
obfuscate
pathos
primeval
salubrious
solicitous
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albeit
bereft
gratis
intercession
lineaments
presage
prodigal
prolixity
sinecure
visage
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accordant
accouterments
deportment
exposition
impugn
impute
parapet
pertinacity
temperance
viands
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brevity
copious
gout
habiliments
irksome
ponderous
scrupulous
sundry
timorous
transcendent
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amorous
benign
dissolute
ebullient
entourage
extol
languid
meet (find the definition for its use as a noun)
resolute
turgid
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chastening
corporeal
derive
dubious
equivocal
errant
goad
languor
resplendent
ruminate
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assail
beget
bellicose
delusion
discourse
garrison
recourse
tumultuous
vexation
vigilant
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auspicious
cavil
conducive
emulate
fungible
garrulous
imperious
morose
proprietary
zeal