ACT Vocabulary

Question 0

Antipathy

Answer 0

Opposition in feeling

Question 1

Antecedent

Answer 1

Significant events of a previous life

Question 2

Consensus

Answer 2

A general agreement

Question 3

Controversy

Answer 3

A disagreement

Question 4

Decimate

Answer 4

To reduce in number

Question 5

Demote

Answer 5

To reduce in rank

Question 6

Exorbiant

Answer 6

Excessive

Question 7

Synthesis

Answer 7

Coming together

Question 8

Transcend

Answer 8

Go beyond limits

Question 9

Retrospect

Answer 9

Review of past events

Question 10

Prognosis

Answer 10

To find out how long it will take to recover

Question 11

Malevolent

Answer 11

To have the ability for evil

Question 12

Cryptic

Answer 12

To have a hidden meaning

Question 13

Deferment

Answer 13

Act of delaying

Question 14

Pragmatism

Answer 14

A good approach to something

Question 15

Agonize

Answer 15

To suffer

Question 16

Audible

Answer 16

Capable of being heard

Question 17

Belligerent

Answer 17

To show hostility

Question 18

Chronic

Answer 18

Long lasting

Question 19

Demographic

Answer 19

A certain characteristic of a certain group of people

Question 20

Incognito

Answer 20

To be in disguise

Question 21

Inducement

Answer 21

To begin a certain action

Question 22

Interrogate

Answer 22

To question

Question 23

Loquacious

Answer 23

Full of too much talk

Question 24

Nominal

Answer 24

Relating to a name

Question 25

Pathos

Answer 25

To show sympathy

Question 26

Protracted

Answer 26

To extend outward

Question 27

Tenacious

Answer 27

Not easily pulled apart

Question 28

Verify

Answer 28

To confirm

Question 29

Vivacious

Answer 29

Lively in spirit

Question 30

Bigotry

Answer 30

The act of treating a racial group as inferior

Question 31

Consummate

Answer 31

Make perfect

Question 32

Copious

Answer 32

Present in large quantity

Question 33

Exacerbate

Answer 33

To make worse

Question 34

Etymology

Answer 34

Find origin

Question 35

Furtive

Answer 35

To do something secretively

Question 36

Laudable

Answer 36

Deserving praise

Question 37

Mutation

Answer 37

A change or alteration

Question 38

Obsolesence

Answer 38

The state of disappearance

Question 39

Parity

Answer 39

Equal in value

Question 40

Protagonist

Answer 40

The hero of a story

Question 41

Provocative

Answer 41

Something that gets a reaction

Question 42

Puerile

Answer 42

Immature

Question 43

Rectify

Answer 43

To make right

Question 44

Relentless

Answer 44

Someone that does not give up

Question 45

Satirize

Answer 45

To use sarcasm to make fun of another

Question 46

Venerate

Answer 46

To treat with respect

Question 47

Philander

Answer 47

To be unfaithful

Question 48

Pietism

Answer 48

To be very religious

Question 49

Pique

Answer 49

To be offended

Question 50

Placebo

Answer 50

A medicine not real but feels real

Question 51

Polity

Answer 51

A political organization

Question 52

Postmodern

Answer 52

Ahead of its time

Question 53

Pretext

Answer 53

Something that tries to cover up what is about to happen

Question 54

Proliferation

Answer 54

To grow quickly

Question 55

Promulgate

Answer 55

To make know to people

Question 56

Pseudonym

Answer 56

A fake name

Question 57

Rapprochement

Answer 57

Having a good relationship

Question 58

Reactionary

Answer 58

To want to go back in time (esp. w/ political issues)

Question 59

Relegate

Answer 59

To send someone away

Question 60

Renounce

Answer 60

To resign

Question 61

Resonate

Answer 61

The power to remember

Question 62

Fidelity

Answer 62

To be faithful

Question 63

Fluctuate

Answer 63

To change without warning

Question 64

Genocide

Answer 64

Destruction of a certain group of people

Question 65

Mediocre

Answer 65

Of moderate or low quality

Question 66

Biodegradable

Answer 66

Ability to be broken down

Question 67

Remittance

Answer 67

Amount of money moved

Question 68

Attribute

Answer 68

an accidental quality

Question 69

Tangential

Answer 69

Straying off the norm

Question 70

Impediment

Answer 70

Something that stops something else

Question 71

Conspicuous

Answer 71

Obvious to the mind

Question 72

Gregarious

Answer 72

Associating with people similar to you

Question 73

Recapitulate

Answer 73

To summarize

Question 74

Agoraphobic

Answer 74

Fear of open spaces

Question 75

Benevolent

Answer 75

To do good

Question 76

Assimilate

Answer 76

To take in and absorb

Question 77

Evident

Answer 77

To make clear

Question 78

Incisive

Answer 78

To be very direct

Question 79

Credence

Answer 79

To believe/trust

Question 80

Urbane

Answer 80

To be polite

Question 81

xenophobic

Answer 81

Someone afraid of foreign things

Question 82

Acumen

Answer 82

being able to understand things

Question 83

Chicanery

Answer 83

a trick

Question 84

Deleterious

Answer 84

something that is harmful

Question 85

Epiphany

Answer 85

to finally understand something

Question 86

Facetious

Answer 86

to play a joke, something humorous

Question 87

homogeneous

Answer 87

to be similar to something else

Question 88

kinetic

Answer 88

something alive, moving

Question 89

lugubrious

Answer 89

to be very dramatic

Question 90

nihilism

Answer 90

to care nothing about life

Question 91

obsequious

Answer 91

to be very loyal

Question 92

paradigm

Answer 92

a very good example of something

Question 93

precipitous

Answer 93

a shape with very steep sides

Question 94

sanguine

Answer 94

relating to blood

Question 95

unctuous

Answer 95

smooth and greasy in texture

Question 96

vacuous

Answer 96

to lacking intelligence, stupid

Question 97

xenophile

Answer 97

someone attracted to foreign things