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ACT vocabulary
This set contains hard vocabulary that you must be familiar with.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pontificating | Express one's opinion in a grand way |
| diverging | Go in separate ways |
| saturating | cause something to dissolve in water |
| proliferating | Increase rapidly in number; Multiply |
| dissipating | disappear or cause to disappear |
| prophetic | accurately predicting what will happen in the future |
| prescience | the fact of knowing something in advance; foreknowledge |
| premeditated | think out or plan before hand (action, especially a crime) |
| predilection | your liking for something |
| dismissive | showing negativity or lack of interest |
| omniscience | Infinite-knowledge; GOD |
| preeminent | surpassing all other; greater;major;important |
| reluctance | lack of enthusiasm; unwillingness to do something |
| insolvent | ruined; unable to pay debts |
| foresight | the ability to predict what will happen or be needed in the future |
| plausible | believable; likely;logical |
| chimerical | imaginary;illusory |
| obsequious | dependent; sneaky, smooth-spoken |
| itinerant | |
| sporadically | |
| gluttonously | |
| meticuosly | |
| munificently | |
| revered | |
| conservation | |
| overlooked | |
| rehabilitation | |
| incarcerated | |
| perseverence | |
| championed | |
| tolerance | |
| independence | |
| criticized |