4 ACT Vocab

A large-scale destruction or slaughter might be called a:

• deluge
• guise
• holocaust
• jeopardy

Another word for spur is:

• impetus
• exploit
• meticulous
• nostalgia

The opposite of advance is:

• progress
• impervious
• holocaust
• retrogress

No matter how much well-meaning moms and dads try to encourage young children to eat their vegetables, they remain impervious to any invitation or request to do so. Based on how it is used in this sentence, what does impervious mean?

• vulnerable
• resistant
• attached
• attracted

Because I was not even born when the Beatles were at the height of their popularity, their albums do not fill me with _____.

• grimace
• retrogress
• nostalgia
• scrutinize

When I saw my sister land in a tree on her first parachute jump, my interest in learning to skydive became decidedly _____.

• tepid
• adroit
• impetus
• nostalgia

Though it may appear rather ordinary to the casual reader, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is to me the _____ of eloquence.

• impetus
• quintessence
• tepid
• jeopardy

I knew you would be _____ in caring for my plants, but I did not expect you to water them with a medicine dropper!

• impervious
• tepid
• meticulous
• cursory

Carelessness in even minor details can put the success of a major theatrical production in _____.

• extol
• quintessence
• scrutinize
• jeopardy

I was very uncomfortable to see the wary customs officer ______ my passport with suspicion.

• nostalgia
• scrutinize
• meticulous
• tepid