ACT Prep Vocab #1

Instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually.

• Felicity

• Wane

• Bombastic

• Edify

Intense happiness; The ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts.

• Felicity

• Wane

• Bombastic

• Edify

High-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.

• Felicity

• Wane

• Bombastic

• Edify

Decrease in vigor, power, or extent (especially of a condition or feeling); Become weaker.

• Felicity

• Wane

• Bombastic

• Edify

Complete each sentence with the correct term.

1. Fuzzy Wazzy was a ____________.

2. Fuzzy Wazzy was __________ of hair.

• 1. bear

  2. bear

• 1. bare

  2. bear

• 1. bare

  2. bare

• 1. bear

  2. bare

Complete each sentence with the correct term.

1. I had to ________ around the corner.

2. I hope to ________ your interest in literature.

3. Have you ever been to the ________ of a mountain?

• 1. peek

  2. pique

  3. peak

• 1. pique

  2. peak

  3. peek

• 1. peak

  2. peek

  3. pique

Complete each sentence with the correct term.

1. I tripped walking down the ________ at the grocery store.

2. I would love to take a trip to some warm exotic ________.

• 1. aisle

  2. isle

• 1. aisle

  2. aisle

• 1. isle

  2. aisle

• 1. isle

  2. isle

Complete each sentence with the correct term.

1. The idea was hard to __________.

2. Everything was great, __________ for the meatballs.

• 1. except

  2. except

• 1. except

  2. accept

• 1. accept

  2. accept

• 1. accept

  2. except