AP Lang SP 1 Vocabs Test

One of his off-putting​ (a)   is his habit of putting himself down even while succeeding, as if bracing for the inevitable ​ (b)   from his haters.

• idiosyncrasies
• aspersions
• caveats
• juvenescence
• disencumbers
• impregnables
• exasperation

The teacher agreed to pass him with one​ (a)   : attending afterschool tutoring for one month. However, the indifferent student saw this as an​ (b)   waste of his time and opted to fail instead.

• caveat
• exorbitant
• propensity
• galvanize
• impregnable
• aspersion
• idiosyncrasy

Knowing the current state of the island's economy, the recruiters aimed to​ (a)   the impressionable students with ​ (b)   financial incentives for their military service.

• tantalize
• inordinate
• disencumber
• exasperate
• ubiquitous
• juvenescent
• emulate

Viral heart-wrenching videos of families literally ripped apart and kids placed in cages ​ (a)   people to take to the streets (or their social media) and call out the government's​ (b)   .

• galvanize
• turpitude
• propensity
• ubiquity
• exorbitant
• truncate
• exasperate

My younger brother hopes to​ (a)   my ​ (b)   nature because he is tired of people telling him that he comes across as mean and unapproachable.

• truncate
• emulate
• affable
• propensity
• galvanize
• inordinate
• juvenescence

Her ​ (a)   to make everything about herself is starting to ​ (b)   even her closest friends.

• propensity
• exasperate
• turpitude
• tantalize
• caveat
• galvanize
• impregnable

After long hours of closed-door meetings, the politicians reached a​ (a)   solution as they remained ​ (b)   against the outside pressures pushing them towards a hasty and half-baked conclusion.

• impregnable
• palatable
• affable
• aspersion
• exasperating
• tantalized
• truncated

I feel my​ (a)   gradually slipping away as I no longer recognize the ​ (b)   slang words and memes that are saturating social media today.

• tantalizing
• juvenescence
• ubiquitous
• affable
• caveat
• idiosyncrasies
• impregnable

This whole time, I wanted to​ (a)   my presentation and ​ (b)   myself from this stage fright, but I pushed through and finished my book report in its entirety.

• truncate
• disencumber
• tantalize
• galvanize
• exasperate
• inordinate
• emulate

There was a time when this cinematic universe of superhero movies was considered as high quality entertainment, but nowadays, these interconnected movies and TV shows have become​ (a)   ​ (b)   for people who do not wish to follow three or five different stories in one year .

• inordinately
• exasperating
• disencumbering
• galvanized
• impregnably
• truncated
• palatable