Top 180 ACT/SAT Vocabulary Words
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recognition of the key vocabulary words in context.
abstract, aesthetic, benevolent, capricious, complacent,
conciliatory, devious, diligent, discernible, dogmatic,
eccentric, fallacious, indifferent, inquisitive, meticulous,
pertinent, plausible, reticent
SAT/ACT #1 puzzle links
candid, inevitable, lethargy, morose, novice, obscure,
ostentatious, precocious, prevaricate, querulous, quiescent,
repose, repudiate, soporific, spontaneous, squander, theoretical,
virulent
SAT/ACT #2 puzzle links
apathy, disdain, diverse, enigma, futile, gratuitous, hackneyed,
incessant, insidious, integrity, jocular, kindle, ludicrous,
provocative, reclusive, reverence, scrutinize, superficial
SAT/ACT #3 puzzle links
affinity, clairvoyant, emulate, expedite, impetuous, innocuous,
mundane, penitent, propensity, regressive, resilient, sedentary,
succinct, terse, vindictive, wanton, ubiquitous, zenith
SAT/ACT #4 puzzle links
ramification, rapacious, recalcitrant, recant, recrimination,
redolent, redundant, refutable, relinquish, remonstrate,
reparation, replenish, reprehensible, requisite, resolute,
rigorous, rudimentary, relegate
SAT/ACT #5 puzzle links
xenophobe, acumen, chicanery, deleterious, epiphany, facetious,
homogeneous, incognito, kinetic, loquacious, lugubrious,
nihilism, obsequious, paradigm, precipitous, sanguine, unctuous,
vacuous, xenophile
SAT/ACT #6 puzzle links
acrimonious, alacrity, conjecture, conspicuous, deviate,
disparage, erudite, exonerate, extricate, incorrigible, indolent,
judicious, mitigate, ostensible, palpable, pandemonium, rectify,
surreptitious
SAT/ACT #7 puzzle links
abject, affluence, analogous, arbitrary, cognizant, compulsory,
insatiable, destitute, disseminate, fortuitous, impeccable,
impervious, oscillate, prerogative, stringent, truncate,
unobtrusive, unscrupulous
SAT/ACT #8 puzzle links
Aficionado, Alchemy, Ambiance, Avatar, Bourgeois, Chaparral,
Cognoscente, Dilettante, Connoisseur, Imbroglio, Juggernaut,
Junta, Malaise, Nirvana, Peccadillo, Raconteur, Vignette,
Virtuoso
SAT/ACT #9 puzzle links
embryonic, entomologist, indefatigable, industrious, insatiable,
insecticide, iridescent, larvae, metamorphosis, nemesis,
nocturnal, pollinate, proboscis, indigenous, quarantine,
subterranean, trepidation, ubiquitous
SAT/ACT #10 puzzle links
affectation, alkaline, auspices, boreal, brogue, carnage,
clathrate, cryptic, draconian, expatriate, feckless, fez,
fissionable, founder, hegemony, insolvency, inviolable, lattice,
litigious, malleable, myriad, oxymoron, pelagic, polity,
postmodern, pretext, proliferation, rapprochement, reactionary,
relegate, resonate, revitalize, substrate, template
SAT/ACT #11 puzzle links
apocalypse, apostate, autonomy, chatelaine, cognitive, denigrate,
Dilettante, disquisition, efficacy, elan, facile, fiasco, gyre,
hermeneutics, indigenous, inhibitory, inscrutable, insurgency,
interstices, littoral, manifestation, manse, oblique, pas de
deux, Pentecostal, philander, pietism, pique, placebo,
promulgate, pseudonym, renounce, servile, sophistry, stymie,
subversion, wrought
SAT/ACT #12 puzzle links
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