AP English III Vocabulary List


1. cognate

2. derivative

3. diminutive

4. inflection

5. paradigm

6. orthography

7. philology

8. phonology

9. rhetoric

10. syntax

11. belie

12. clandestine

13. collusion

14. dissemble

15. nefarious

16. perfidious

17. probity

18. scrupulous

19. spurious

20. stratagem

21. emanate

22. inhibit

23. meander

24. retrogress

25. serpentine

26. supersede

27. torpid

28. transitory

29. undulate

30. unremitting

31. berserk

32. jubilee

33. juggernaut

34. kowtow

35. maelstrom

36. mecca

37. nabob

38. saga

39. shibboleth

40. trek

41. adjunct

42. amalgamate

43. contiguous

44. diffuse

45. diverge

46. parity

47. periphery

48. synergy

49. transcend

50. unison

51. adumbrate

52. arcane

53. covert

54. educe

55. fathom

56. impervious

57. limpid

58. manifest

59. nebulous

60. translucent

61. capacious

62. captious

63. captivate

64. cater

65. concept

66. inception

67. perceptible

68. precept

69. receptacle

70. recipient

71. axiomatic

72. definitive

73. empirical

74. hypothetical

75. presuppose

76. rationalize

77. rebuttal

78. repudiate

79. synthesis

80. verifiable

81. aberrant

82. anomaly

83. eccentricity

84. endemic

85. incongruous

86. mundane

87. outlandish

88. paragon

89. ubiquitous

90. unwonted

91. animus

92. corpulent

93. corpus

94. corpuscle

95. equanimity

96. inanimate

97. incorporate

98. incorporeal

99. magnanimous

100. pusillanimous

101. abscond

102. bilk

103. clemency

104. contrite

105. impute

106. iniquity

107. redress

108. reprehensible

109. restitution

110. vindicate

111. atrophy

112. debilitate

113. livid

114. moribund

115. noxious

116. pestilent

117. prostrate

118. salubrious

119. scourge

120. unscathed

121. append

122. dispense

123. expendable

124. expenditure

125. impend

126. pending

127. perpendicular

128. preponderance

129. recompense

130. suspension

131. eulogy

132. exalt

133. exhort

134. expatriate

135. garrulous

136. gist

137. histrionic

138. laconic

139. peremptory

140. polemic

141. consecrate

142. credo

143. desecrate

144. laudable

145. pious

146. sacrilegious

147. sanctimony

148. sanctity

149. supplicate

150. venerate

151. anonymous

152. cognomen

153. denomination

154. homonym

155. ignominy

156. metonymy

157. misnomer

158. nomenclature

159. nominal

160. renown

161. convivial

162. ebullience

163. felicitous

164. irascible

165. placid

166. querulous

167. sardonic

168. surly

169. truculent

170. unctuous

171. audacious

172. contumacy

173. dour

174. e’clat

175. indefatigable

176. irresolute

177. obdurate

178. obsequious

179. pertinacity

180. stoic

181. benediction

182. colloquium

183. edict

184. elocution

185. grandiloquence

186. indict

187. interdict

188. interlocutor

189. loquacious

190. soliloquy

191. deleterious

192. despoil

193. effectual

194. jettison

195. obviate

196. pinnacle

197. raze

198. stultify

199. surmount

200. wrest

201. avarice

202. insatiable

203. inundate

204. myriad

205. parsimony

206. prodigal

207. replete

208. surfeit

209. tumult

210. voluminous

211. extenuation

212. portent

213. pretentious

214. retentive

215. retinue

216. sustenance

217. tenable

218. tenacious

219. tenuous

220. tenure

221. adduce

222. confound

223. construe

224. conundrum

225. cryptic

226. equivocate

227. paradox

228. patent

229. perspicacity

230. rudimentary

231. commodious

232. finite

233. gamut

234. incalculable

235. iota

236. lofty

237. magnitude

238. miniscule

239. picayune

240. vestige