ACT Vocabulary 8&9

to stop oneself from doing or enjoying something

• abstain

• lampoon

• insidious

• acquiesce

arrogantly superior, stuck up, snobbish

• tenacious

• sojourn

• gregarious

• haughty

Not giving up on something

• gregarious

• tenacious

• abstain

• curmudgeon

to give in to demands reluctantly but without protest

• acquiesce

• abstain

• augment

• tenacious

To make fun of

• insidious

• abstain

• lampoon

• curmudgeon

a grumpy, cranky person

• sojourn

• curmudgeon

• abstain

• lampoon

advancing in a gradual way to cause harm

• gregarious

• tenacious

• insidious

• haughty

a short trip or vacation

• augment

• tenacious

• sojourn

• abstain

fond of people's company, loud and talkative

• gregarious

• insidious

• haughty

• abstain

to add to

• augment

• insidious

• acquiesce

• tenacious