3500 ACT Vocabulary
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3500 ACT Vocabulary
Group (7) - Matching Quizzes
harrowing 
1
 | dispute or contradict, often in insulting way; challenge |
| a large group or crowd; wandering troop or gang; a moving crowd |
| establish, organize, and set in operation |
| agonizing; distressing extremely painful |
hay
2
| pride; arrogance; highness or loftiness |
| lack of balance or symmetry; disproportion |
| quality of not moving; remaining in place |
| grass or other plants, cut and dried for fodder |
hurtle
3
| periodic; on and off; stopping and starting at intervals |
| very small; immeasurably or incalculably minute |
| crash; move with or as if with great speed and rushing noise |
| essential; requisite; impossible to be omitted or remitted |
impede
4
| gray or white with or as if with age; covered with grayish hair |
| enhance; hoist; raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify |
| agonizing; distressing extremely painful |
| hinder; charge with improper conduct; challenge validity of; try to discredit |
impiety
5
| one who does not hold same religious beliefs as another |
| prayer for help; calling upon as reference or support |
| lacking flavor or zest; not tasty; dull |
| irreverence; lack of respect for God |
importune
6
| kind of gas they were using to fill the balloon |
| beg persistently; ask for urgently or repeatedly; annoy |
| prayer for help; calling upon as reference or support |
| very small; immeasurably or incalculably minute |
impugn
7
| make prominent; emphasize; stress |
| dispute or contradict, often in insulting way; challenge |
| giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary |
| input; enter; put or set into, between, or among |
inception
8
| express or indicate indirectly; signify |
| beginning of something; taking in, as by swallowing; process of receiving within |
| equalize; become similar, as by mixing |
| irreverence; lack of respect for God |
incongruous
9
| not fitting; lacking in harmony or compatibility |
| refuse to pay attention to; disregard; overlook; neglect |
| lacking flavor or zest; not tasty; dull |
| giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary |
indefatigable
10
| prayer for help; calling upon as reference or support |
| edge or border on a piece of cloth, especially a finished edge |
| uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite |
| tireless; showing sustained enthusiastic action |