2.ACT Vocabulary in Context Practice

Because so few Southern blacks could afford to pay the poll tax, imposing such a tax on prospective voters was ______ to denying black voters the right to vote.

• synthetic
• vigor
• tantamount
• undermine

Tires, once manufactured from rubber plants, nowadays are made from _____ materials produced from crude oil.

• synthetic
• synthesis
• undermine
• tentative

Combining their owners' Catholicism with their own West African beliefs, Haitian slaves created a _____ now known as Voodoo.

• trite
• synthesis
• tenacity
• unprecedented

Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, wines girl back - what a ____ plot!

• trepidation
• trite
• thesis
• terse

As she entered the office of the dean of admissions, Sharon felt some _____ about how her interview would go.

• trepidation
• viable
• virulent
• uniformity

The blue Caribbean waters were so ____ that we could clearly see the colorful tropical fish darting through the coral reefs.

• thesis
• tentative
• volatile
• transparent

In her speech, Lexy made a convincing argument, supporting her ____ with statistics as well as anecdotal evidence.

• thesis
• terse
• tentative
• tenacity

There is a fine line between speech that is ____ and to the point and speech so abrupt that it verges on being rude.

• verbose
• vestigial
• terse
• tentative

Unaccustomed to strangers, Bobby at first was _____ about approaching the new babysitter.

• tenacity
• tentative
• volatile
• virulent

Jean Valjean could not believe the _____ of Inspector Javert.

• tenacity
• viable
• verbose
• vacillate