ACT Vocab 5

very clean

• pristine

• ominous

• intent

• indifferent

Having been abandoned on her wedding day, Miss Havisham lived alone as a(n) __________ for the rest of her life.

• recluse

• nihilist

• renegade

• omnivore

Answer explanation

Recluse: a person who lives alone and tends to avoid other people

person who leads a life shut up or withdrawn from the world 

• Recluse - (n):

• Squalor - (n):

• Impertinence - (n):

• Cynical - (adj):

keeping careful watch for danger

• vigilant

• solemn

• gaunt

• contented

watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary

• devoted

• anticipated

• elation

• vigilant

verb - to lessen, diminish, decline

• subside

• tedious

• dialect

• hover

When the students ate all of the candy, Ms. Maloy had to ________ her stash.

• banish

• disdain

• replenish

• zeal

to make full or complete again

• hazy

• replensih

• adhere

• relinquish

Pure; completely clean and uncontaminated

• precocious

• postscript

• pristine

• proliferate

We must remain ___________ in case they come our way.