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Cool ACT Words
most of the vocabulary words start with A
Term | Definition |
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philanthropic | Something given to help others is philanthropic. |
ideal | An ideal is a model of something perfect or without equal. |
aristocratic | belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy |
abase | To abase something or someone is to humiliate them |
abhor | If you abhor something, it gives you a feeling of complete hatred |
ascetic | pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline |
abject | most unfortunate or miserable |
accentuate | to stress, single out as important |
acme | the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development |
acquiesce | to agree or express agreement |
aggrandize | add details to |
acrimonious | marked by strong resentment or cynicism |
antagonism | an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility |
anthropomorphic | suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things |
anecdote | short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) |
antipathy | a feeling of intense dislike |
arbitrary | based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice |
anachronism | something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred |
assimilation | the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another |
augury | an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come |
Artifice | a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) |