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Seniors ~ Final Exam

Your final exam will consist of three sections - AP multiple choice, vocabulary and an essay. The multiple choice section will come from your handout, and you will have a choice of essay prompts. The vocabulary will include 20 of the following 30 terms:

  1. eschew - to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds
  2. discursive - moving from topic to topic without order
  3. veracity - the quality or state of being lively in temper, conduct or spirit
  4. perilous - full of or involving danger
  5. ephemeral - lasting a very short time
  6. prevail - to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority
  7. dismal - showing or causing gloom or depression
  8. ingenuous - showing innocent or childlike simplicity and honesty
  9. syllogism - a subtle, specious, or crafty argument
  10. laudatory - of, relating to, or expressing praise
  11. pedantic – narrowly or stubbornly learned; unimaginative
  12. exhort – to urge strongly
  13. sardonic - disdainfully or skeptically humorous
  14. reprove - to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent
  15. spatial - of or relating to facility in perceiving relations (as of objects) in space
  16. flippant - lacking proper respect or seriousness
  17. scant - barely or scarcely sufficient
  18. portentousness - eliciting amazement or wonder
  19. didactic - designed or intended to teach
  20. reverential - expressing or having a quality of respect
  21. axiom - a maxim widely accepted on its intrinsic merit
  22. incessant - continuing or following without interruption
  23. parcel - to divide into parts
  24. contrived – artificial; labored
  25. lament - to express sorrow, mourning, or regret
  26. allude - to make indirect reference
  27. subsidy - a grant or gift of money
  28. coherent - logically or aesthetically ordered or integrated
  29. pessimism - an inclination to expect the worst possible outcome
  30. unadorned - lacking embellishment or decoration

Good luck, and study!

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