AP Lit Vocab Test (Words 61-70)

A gentle breeze would always _______ the oppressive heat.

• allay
• palpitate
• metigatt
• prostrate

Though the venue appeared small, it was surprisingly _________.

• capacious
• ignominious
• propitious
• phlegmatic

Most humans are _______ and sleep throughout the night. Teenagers, however, are a different story.

• diurnal
• capacious
• ignominious
• prostrate

We will need some gardening shears in order to _________ this adorable doggy from the hedges.

• extricate
• palpitate
• mitigate
• allay

Some of his friends considered the job of janitor to be an ________ fate for the laid-off executive.

• ignominious
• propitious
• mitigated
• extricated

Mary Poppins famously sang that a spoon full of sugar helps ________ the bitter taste of medicine ingested.

• mitigate
• palpitate
• prostrate
• prostraight

Poor Jerry had such terrible heart ___________! He should really see a doctor!

• palpitations
• allays
• prostrates
• pulpitates

You could tell that Hillary Clinton had practiced being __________. She was unfazed by anything Trump said!
(too bad it didn't help her on election day)

• phlegmatic
• propitious
• diurnal
• flegmatic

She always took it as a _______ sign when she knew the answer to the first question on a test.

• propitious
• propacious
• prostrate
• capricious

This poor, exhausted little squirrel is lying _________ on the nearest park bench it could find.

• prostrate
• ignominiously
• phlegmatically
• allay