3500 ACT Vocabulary

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(болото) soft wet boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself


Spelling Word: quagmire
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(ветвятся) divide into branches or subdivisions; subordinate branchlike parts


Spelling Word: ramify
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(разрушить) destroy completely; scrape or shave off


Spelling Word: raze
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(рецидивов) habitual return to crime; committing new offenses after being punished for crime


Spelling Word: recidivism
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(ответ) retort; comeback; answer to a reply


Spelling Word: rejoinder
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(известность) fame; quality of being widely honored and acclaimed


Spelling Word: renown
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(кощунственным) acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred; violating sacred things; profane


Spelling Word: sacrilegious
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(санитарии) health; hygiene; application of measures designed to protect public health; disposal or recycling of waste


Spelling Word: sanitation
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(тщательно) examine closely and critically


Spelling Word: scrutinize
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(змеевик) winding; twisting; curving in alternate directions; having the shape or form of a snake


Spelling Word: serpentine