ACT Vocabulary Quiz Week # 2

What does adjudicate mean?

• to hear and decide judicially; to judge
• not genuine, not true, not valid, false
• to speed up a process; to facilitate
• to encircle, bind, or surround

What does spurious mean?

• Incapable of being replaced, soothed, or significantly changed; relentless
• to fascinate or hypnotize
• not genuine, not true, not valid, false
• unreal or imagined; deceiving

What does countenance mean?

• not called for; unnecessary or without charge; free
• a state of balance
• A public statement explaining the intentions, motives, or views of an individual or group
• a person's face or the expression on a person's face or to support or approve

What does disgruntle mean?

• unreal or imagined; deceiving
• Incapable of being replaced, soothed, or significantly changed; relentless
• to make dissatisfied or to put in a bad mood
• to hear and decide judicially; to judge

What does luminary mean?

• A source of light, especially from the sky, such as the sun or moon or any particularly brilliant, famous, or well-known person; a celebrity
• a one-hundred year celebration
• to speed up a process; to facilitate
• Incapable of being replaced, soothed, or significantly changed; relentless

What does expedite mean?

• to fascinate or hypnotize
• to encircle, bind, or surround
• to speed up a process; to facilitate
• not called for; unnecessary or without charge; free

What word means unreal or imagined;
deceiving?

• implacable
• illusory
• manifesto
• implacable

What word means not called for; unnecessary or without charge;
 free?

• spurious
• precedent
• gird
• gratuitous

What word means an act or statement that may serve as an example or justification for a later one?

• precedent
• implacable
• spurious
• countenance

What word means incapable of being replaced, soothed, or significantly changed; relentless 

• disgruntle
• mesmerize
• implacable
• manifesto