ACT List 3

a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person

• anecdote

• burgeon
• assert
• incendiary

begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish

• ancecdote
• burgeon
• consecutive
• trivial

state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully

• pungent

• assert
• trivial
• perpetual

come out into view, as from concealment

• ancecdote
• diminish
• antagonize
• emerge

causing to excite or inflame

• antagonize
• skeptical
• incendiary
• correlate

sluggish, languid

• diminish
• lethargic
• burgeon
• incendiary

of the highest quality or degree

• superlative
• onset
• hardship
• incendiary

of little value or importance

• skeptical
• antagonize
• trivial
• correlate

following in order

• onset
• diminish
• intact
• consecutive

never ending or changing

• perpetual
• incendiary
• burgeon
• assert