# 1 (ACT Vocabulary)

a person whose attention is focused on what is going on around him or her

• repertorie

• buffoon

• penchant

• extrovert

mournful or full of sorrow; causing grief

• undermine

• doleful

• buffoon

• asperity

to weaken of ruin by degrees

• undermine

• asperity

• instigate

• unremitting

behaving in a wily and unruly manner

• instigate

• rambunctious

• asperity

• unremitting

a basic principal or skill

• penchant

• instigate

• undermine

• rudiment

sharpness or harshness of manner

• undermine

• doleful

• asperity

• instigate

a person or thing that destroys or causes harm

• buffoon

• garish

• bane

• imbue

a group or system in which positions of power are ranked, usually from lowest to highest

• extravert

• hierarchy

• repertoire

• asperity

to stir on or urge on; to provoke

• instigate

• unremitting

• penchant

• undermine

not stopping or slowing down

• rudiment

• instigate

• unremitting

• undermine