ACT Vocabulary Flashcards
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Antipathy
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Opposition in feeling
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Antecedent
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Significant events of a previous life
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Consensus
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A general agreement
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Controversy
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A disagreement
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Decimate
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To reduce in number
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Demote
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To reduce in rank
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Exorbiant
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Excessive
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Synthesis
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Coming together
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Transcend
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Go beyond limits
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Retrospect
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Review of past events
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Prognosis
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To find out how long it will take to recover
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Malevolent
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To have the ability for evil
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Cryptic
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To have a hidden meaning
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Deferment
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Act of delaying
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Pragmatism
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A good approach to something
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Agonize
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To suffer
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Audible
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Capable of being heard
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Belligerent
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To show hostility
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Chronic
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Long lasting
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Demographic
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A certain characteristic of a certain group of people
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Incognito
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To be in disguise
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Inducement
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To begin a certain action
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Interrogate
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To question
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Loquacious
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Full of too much talk
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Nominal
Relating to a name
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Pathos
To show sympathy
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Protracted
To extend outward
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Tenacious
Not easily pulled apart
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Verify
To confirm
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Vivacious
Lively in spirit
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Bigotry
The act of treating a racial group as inferior
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Consummate
Make perfect
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Copious
Present in large quantity
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Exacerbate
To make worse
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Etymology
Find origin
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Furtive
To do something secretively
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Laudable
Deserving praise
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Mutation
A change or alteration
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Obsolesence
The state of disappearance
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Parity
Equal in value
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Protagonist
The hero of a story
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Provocative
Something that gets a reaction
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Puerile
Immature
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Rectify
To make right
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Relentless
Someone that does not give up
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Satirize
To use sarcasm to make fun of another
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Venerate
To treat with respect
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Philander
To be unfaithful
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Pietism
To be very religious
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Pique
To be offended
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Placebo
A medicine not real but feels real
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Polity
A political organization
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Postmodern
Ahead of its time
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Pretext
Something that tries to cover up what is about to happen
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Proliferation
To grow quickly
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Promulgate
To make know to people
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Pseudonym
A fake name
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Rapprochement
Having a good relationship
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Reactionary
To want to go back in time (esp. w/ political issues)
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Relegate
To send someone away
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Renounce
To resign
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Resonate
The power to remember
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Fidelity
To be faithful
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Fluctuate
To change without warning
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Genocide
Destruction of a certain group of people
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Mediocre
Of moderate or low quality
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Biodegradable
Ability to be broken down
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Remittance
Amount of money moved
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Attribute
an accidental quality
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Tangential
Straying off the norm
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Impediment
Something that stops something else
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Conspicuous
Obvious to the mind
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Gregarious
Associating with people similar to you
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Recapitulate
To summarize
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Agoraphobic
Fear of open spaces
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Benevolent
To do good
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Assimilate
To take in and absorb
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Evident
To make clear
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Incisive
To be very direct
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Credence
To believe/trust
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Urbane
To be polite
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xenophobic
Someone afraid of foreign things
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Acumen
being able to understand things
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Chicanery
a trick
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Deleterious
something that is harmful
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Epiphany
to finally understand something
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Facetious
to play a joke, something humorous
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homogeneous
to be similar to something else
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kinetic
something alive, moving
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lugubrious
to be very dramatic
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nihilism
to care nothing about life
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obsequious
to be very loyal
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paradigm
a very good example of something
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precipitous
a shape with very steep sides
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sanguine
relating to blood
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unctuous
smooth and greasy in texture
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vacuous
to lacking intelligence, stupid
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xenophile
someone attracted to foreign things
