3500 ACT Vocabulary

Stories of USA Today
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abet  Speak Example sentences
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eager; keen; worried; uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter
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friendship; peaceful relations, as between nations
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aid, usually in doing something wrong; encourage
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estimate value of; evaluate, especially in official capacity
abscond  Speak Example sentences
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estimate value of; evaluate, especially in official capacity
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feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack; quality of being bold and enterprising
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leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution
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indirect reference; symbolical reference or comparison; metaphor
accentuate  Speak Example sentences
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easily approached or entered; obtainable; easy to talk to or get along with
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moved by sexual love; loving
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emphasize; stress; pronounce with a stress or accent; mark with an accent
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lacking restraint or control; feeling of extreme emotional intensity; unbounded enthusiasm
accommodate  Speak Example sentences
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science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in
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eager; keen; worried; uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter
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make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
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do a favor or service for; provide for; supply with; make suitable; adapt; allow for
acetic  Speak Example sentences
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go away or leave ; missing; not present
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wear away by friction; scrape; erode
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having properties of vinegar; sour
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having time error in story; erroneous in date; in wrong time
adumbrate  Speak Example sentences
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give hint or indication of something; disclose partially or guardedly; overshadow; shade
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impending; of the relatively near future; coming closer to another
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appeal to or entreat earnestly; command or enjoin solemnly, as under oath
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go away or leave ; missing; not present
aesthetic  Speak Example sentences
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having life or vigor or spirit; filled with activity; in form of cartoon
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elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste
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make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
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displaying characteristics of previous cultural era or of previous ancestral form
allusion  Speak Example sentences
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strong feeling of aversion; dislike
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feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack; quality of being bold and enterprising
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indirect reference; symbolical reference or comparison; metaphor
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go away or leave ; missing; not present
amity  Speak Example sentences
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elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste
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do a favor or service for; provide for; supply with; make suitable; adapt; allow for
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friendship; peaceful relations, as between nations
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having properties of vinegar; sour
anticlimax  Speak Example sentences
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strong feeling of aversion; dislike
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estimate value of; evaluate, especially in official capacity
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letdown in thought or emotion; decline viewed in disappointing contrast with previous rise
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emphasize; stress; pronounce with a stress or accent; mark with an accent