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ACTVocab11
ACT Vocabulary 11
Question | Answer |
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Abet | to encourage or assist(usually in offence to justice or law) |
Agile | characterized by ability to move quickly with suppleness and grace |
Antidote | something that relieves the effects of poison |
Ascertain | to find out definitely; to determine |
Benevolence | kindness, generosity, charity |
Desolate | deserted, without inhabitants, barren |
Din | loud and discordant, cacophony |
Dissuade | to advise against, to talk out of |
Distend | to expand, to swell |
Enervation | weakness |
Eulogy | Praise or Tribute |
Fitful | irregular |
Indelible | cannot be removed, washed away or erased |
Inert | unable to move or to act, sluggish |
Malevolence | ill will or evil intentions |
Obliterate | to remove all traces of;to destroy completely; to cancel |
Ornate | excessively decorated |
Paucity | scarcity, fewness of number, dearth |
Piety | devotion and reverence to God |
Precarious | dangerous, risky, not a secure situation |
Prosaic | commonplace, uninspired, banal |
Quiescent | inactive, dormant |
Scintillating | sparkling, shining, or flashing |
Squalid | filthy in appearance, sordid |
Vexation | discomfort or distress |