AP English Literature
The Misanthrope bonus opportunity
SAT VOCABULARY
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Write the sentence from the play with the word in it.
Determine what you think the word means based on its use in this sentence. Indicate context clues (from the
sentence or surrounding sentences) that helped you to conjecture about meaning.
Record the definition of the word and at least one SAT-level synonym for the word. If multiple definitions exist,
choose the definition(s) that is apt for the context of the book’s sentence.
Compose a sentence of your own about a text we have read or a concept you have learned, using the new word in
context that clearly shows its meaning. You must show that you can use the word—DO NOT copy or rephrase
sentences from internet sites.
Act 1
misanthrope
lugubrious
protestation
grave
lavish
fop
esteem
indiscriminate
uncouth
coquette
treachery
tirades
frank
rogues
complaisant
wretched
knave
petty
pliant
rectitude
detestation
frailty
guile
base
impudent
perverse
enamored
malice
fervently
reprove
requited
astonish
illustrious
profanation
sagacious
rue
avocation
trite
provocation
debased
citadel
shoddy
Act 2
invectives
beset
paragon
gallant
pacify
pangs
exorcise
castigating
alienate
idle
unerringly
gauche
trifle
inconsequential
fawn
grope
insipid
prattle
vice
contrariness
conviction
eloquence
ecstasies
condemnation
deprecate
blemish
consummation
reprobation
commendable
swarthy
haughty
arbitrate
equivocate
retraction
recant
politic
Act 3
debonair
pedigree
complacency
pine
grovel
vexed
armistice
prudish
vicious
tarry
notorious
vehemently
surmise
overtly
unchaste
suffice
benign
piety
affectation
demeanor
aspersions
belies
incessantly
zeal
censure
gloating
dogging
tawdry
apropos
incivility
contrive
aggrieved
lackey
feign
wantonly
dupe
ocular
consolation
Act 4
reconciled
unendowed
panegyric
candor
sullen
accords
rebuff
bestowed
anguish
avenge
ardent
mollified
subside
retribution
malignant
impunity
fatal
equanimity
grievance
ingenious
evasion
palpable
construe
berate
bridles
upbraid
transgression
impel
reticence
obscure
plight
benevolence
ails
lout
oblique
blither
rigmarole
Act 5
compel
vile
condone
brazen
seditious
abets
jackal
prevarication
posterity
concede
cogency
deign
felicity
inquisition
ultimatum
concur
demur
banish
deference
indignant
calumny
disclosure
trifling
saccharine
sublime
dissembling
advocate
wrath
culpable
atone
atrocious
hermitage
stern
disenthrall
forsaken