3500 ACT Vocabulary

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(拍动,跳动,搏动) beat rapidly; shake with fast, tremulous movements


Spelling Word: palpitate
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(被动的) lacking in energy or will; peacefully resistant in response to injustice


Spelling Word: passive
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(牧场,草地) field covered with grass; meadow


Spelling Word: pasture
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(少量,缺乏) scarcity; smallness of number; fewness


Spelling Word: paucity
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(语言学) study of language; investigation of language and its literature


Spelling Word: philology
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(可饮用的) suitable for drinking; drinkable


Spelling Word: potable
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(贫困) lack of money; state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts


Spelling Word: poverty
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(陡峭的,急躁的) extremely steep; descending rapidly, or rushing onward


Spelling Word: precipitous
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(摘要,概要,大意) concise summing up of main points


Spelling Word: precis
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(消灭,杜绝) make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent; eliminate


Spelling Word: preclude