ACT Vocabulary 11-20

(adj) excusing, lessening the seriousness of guilt or crime, e.g., of mitigating factors

• hackneyed

• extenuating

• florid

• impetuous

(adj) highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy

• hedonist

• hypothesis

• fortuitous

• florid

(adj) accidental, occurring by a happy chance

• fortuitous

• extenuating

• hedonist

• relevant

(adj.) economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager, thrifty

• hedonist

• fortuitous

• hackneyed

• frugal

(adj) used so often as to lack freshness or originality; cliched

• hedonist

• hackneyed

• impetuous

• relevant

(adj) arrogant, excessively proud and vain; condescending

• fortuitous

• frugal

• haughty

• hedonist

(n) a person who believes that pleasure is the chief goal of life

• hedonist

• frugal

• hackneyed

• impetuous

(n) a testable prediction, often implied by a theory

• impetuous

• hypothesis

• relevant

• fortuitous

(adj) inclined to act without thinking; hasty

• impetuous

• frugal

• florid

• hackneyed

closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand

• haughty

• hackneyed

• frugal

• relevant