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ACT Vocabulary

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

To make shorter

a)

Adulation

b)

Anecdote

c)

Abbreviate

d)

Amicable

2.

Adulation

a)

excessive praise

b)

excessive payment

c)

excessive attention

d)

excessive anger

3.

difficulties; misfortune

a)

Anecdote

b)

Spurious

c)

Adversity

d)

Wary

4.

Amicable

a)

having a spirit of revenge

b)

having a spirit of friendliness

c)

having a spirit of disgust

d)

having a spirit of excitement

5.

A real story about a person or event

a)

Ephemeral

b)

Anecdote

c)

Adulation

d)

impetuous

6.

Benevolent

a)

kind, meaning well

b)

evil intentions

c)

state of friendship

d)

having support from your enemies

7.

Ability to understand someone else's point of view

a)

sympathy

b)

emotion

c)

intrepid

d)

empathy

8.

Ephemeral

a)

lasting a short amount of time

b)

lasting at least a day

c)

heavenly

d)

beautiful

9.

a phrase or idea that is overused,

a)

sarcasm

b)

hackneyed

c)

transient

d)

venerable

10.

Impetuous

a)

unwilling to compromise

b)

needing intervention

c)

done quickly and without care

d)

sarcasm to a superior

11.

Extremely brave

a)

intrepid

b)

rancorous

c)

spurious

d)

mundane

12.

mundane

a)

too much of something, excessive

b)

not enough, in reference to writing

c)

boring, lacking interest

d)

corruption within a large organisation

13.

characterized by bitterness

a)

hackneyed

b)

superfluous

c)

venerable

d)

rancorous

14.

Spurious

a)

not what it appears, fake, false

b)

ability to bring others joy

c)

hardworking, good leader

d)

ability to see the unknown

15.

more than needed, excessive

a)

empathy

b)

vindicate

c)

superfluous

d)

rancorous

16.

Tenacious

a)

forming a bond

b)

gives up easily

c)

not willing to lie

d)

persisting, not easily moved

17.

Staying in one place only for a short time

a)

transient

b)

Impetuous

c)

tenacious

d)

spurious

18.

venerable

a)

easily influenced

b)

hard to change; persistent

c)

giving respect based on age, wisdom, or character

d)

disrespecting others that are beneath you

19.

Strong need for revenge

a)

venerable

b)

hackneyed

c)

impetuous

d)

vindicate

20.

wary

a)

boldness in actions

b)

showing caution

c)

close to death

d)

easy to defeat

21.

No longer used or produced; outdated

a)

Obsilte

b)

Obsolete

c)

Obsulate

d)

Obsolate

22.

Ambiguous

a)

Used too much

b)

Understanding the issue

c)

Not clear, could be more than one thing

d)

Certain; follows very detailed plans

23.

About to happen

a)

Ambiguous

b)

Aduation

c)

Intransigent

d)

Imminent

24.

Differentiate

a)

Too similar to identify differences

b)

The ability to identify differences between things or people

c)

The ability to understand what people are thinking

d)

The ability to read minds

25.

Showing or having a feeling of superiority

a)

Condensing

b)

Condescending

c)

Capturing

d)

Comparing

26.

Trivial

a)

Having to do with trivia

b)

of little importance or value

c)

of great importance or value

d)

difficult to overcome

27.

ability to conserve ecological balance without depletion of natural resources

a)

sustainable

b)

suctainible

c)

susmisable

d)

stanible

28.

Omit

a)

To admit guilt

b)

to give up

c)

to take away something

d)

to add something

29.

Having a mutual connection

a)

causation

b)

co-dependent

c)

correlation

d)

connection

30.

infer

a)

To come to a conclusion based on a reliable statement

b)

To come to a conclusion based on evidence gathered

c)

To come to a conclusion without any basis

d)

To come to a conclusion using the scientific method

31.

Compensate

a)

To make up for something unwelcome or unpleasant by exerting an opposite force or effect

b)

To make up for some kind of wrong doing that negatively affected another person

c)

To make up for missed work

d)

To make up for a mistake made in anger

32.

Large or heavy; difficult to move or carry

a)

Cucumber

b)

Cumberous

c)

Cumbersome

d)

Cumpensase

33.

Precede

a)

To be part of a parade

b)

To wait for others

c)

To be in a line

d)

To come before something

34.

of or relating to an immature, undeveloped, or basic form

a)

Elementary

b)

Rudimentary

c)

Reluctant

d)

Reductorary

35.

Void

a)

Completely lacking or empty

b)

Completely satisfied

c)

Completely infatuated (in love)

d)

Completely obsessed

36.

Antagonize

a)

The bad person in the story

b)

To make someone angry on purpose

c)

To make someone happy

d)

The good person in the story

37.

Logical and consistent

a)

Cohort

b)

Codependent

c)

Coherent

d)

Cohesive

38.

Eminent

a)

Famous and well respected

b)

About to happen

c)

Disrespected/ notorious

d)

Famous and dead

39.

To leave the main topic in writing or speaking

a)

Digress

b)

Diversion

c)

Division

d)

Dynamic

40.

Nostalgia

a)

A sentimental feeling about the past

b)

When you forget what happened in the past

c)

Feeling angry about the past

d)

Feeling sad about the past