ACT Vocabulary Flashcards
Antipathy
Opposition in feeling
Antecedent
Significant events of a previous life
Consensus
A general agreement
Controversy
A disagreement
Decimate
To reduce in number
Demote
To reduce in rank
Exorbiant
Excessive
Synthesis
Coming together
Transcend
Go beyond limits
Retrospect
Review of past events
Prognosis
To find out how long it will take to recover
Malevolent
To have the ability for evil
Cryptic
To have a hidden meaning
Deferment
Act of delaying
Pragmatism
A good approach to something
Agonize
To suffer
Audible
Capable of being heard
Belligerent
To show hostility
Chronic
Long lasting
Demographic
A certain characteristic of a certain group of people
Incognito
To be in disguise
Inducement
To begin a certain action
Interrogate
To question
Loquacious
Full of too much talk
Nominal
Relating to a name
Pathos
To show sympathy
Protracted
To extend outward
Tenacious
Not easily pulled apart
Verify
To confirm
Vivacious
Lively in spirit
Bigotry
The act of treating a racial group as inferior
Consummate
Make perfect
Copious
Present in large quantity
Exacerbate
To make worse
Etymology
Find origin
Furtive
To do something secretively
Laudable
Deserving praise
Mutation
A change or alteration
Obsolesence
The state of disappearance
Parity
Equal in value
Protagonist
The hero of a story
Provocative
Something that gets a reaction
Puerile
Immature
Rectify
To make right
Relentless
Someone that does not give up
Satirize
To use sarcasm to make fun of another
Venerate
To treat with respect
Philander
To be unfaithful
Pietism
To be very religious
Pique
To be offended
Placebo
A medicine not real but feels real
Polity
A political organization
Postmodern
Ahead of its time
Pretext
Something that tries to cover up what is about to happen
Proliferation
To grow quickly
Promulgate
To make know to people
Pseudonym
A fake name
Rapprochement
Having a good relationship
Reactionary
To want to go back in time (esp. w/ political issues)
Relegate
To send someone away
Renounce
To resign
Resonate
The power to remember
Fidelity
To be faithful
Fluctuate
To change without warning
Genocide
Destruction of a certain group of people
Mediocre
Of moderate or low quality
Biodegradable
Ability to be broken down
Remittance
Amount of money moved
Attribute
an accidental quality
Tangential
Straying off the norm
Impediment
Something that stops something else
Conspicuous
Obvious to the mind
Gregarious
Associating with people similar to you
Recapitulate
To summarize
Agoraphobic
Fear of open spaces
Benevolent
To do good
Assimilate
To take in and absorb
Evident
To make clear
Incisive
To be very direct
Credence
To believe/trust
Urbane
To be polite
xenophobic
Someone afraid of foreign things
Acumen
being able to understand things
Chicanery
a trick
Deleterious
something that is harmful
Epiphany
to finally understand something
Facetious
to play a joke, something humorous
homogeneous
to be similar to something else
kinetic
something alive, moving
lugubrious
to be very dramatic
nihilism
to care nothing about life
obsequious
to be very loyal
paradigm
a very good example of something
precipitous
a shape with very steep sides
sanguine
relating to blood
unctuous
smooth and greasy in texture
vacuous
to lacking intelligence, stupid
xenophile
someone attracted to foreign things