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ACT Prep Vocbulary

Improve your vocabulary skills with this comprehensive list of words and their definitions. From abeyance to volatile, expand your lexicon and enhance your communication abilities. Perfect for students and language enthusiasts alike.

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ACT Prep Vocbulary

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  1. ACT Prep Vocbulary Keeler, Wartick, and Wexler

  2. 1 • Abeyance : She petitioned the king to terminate the abeyance in her favor. • Cajole: You can easily cajole a small child with candies or toys. • Beacon: At regular intervals we could see the flashing beacons on the ground that showed us the way to the border. • Delineate: Like most terms applied to jazz music, hard bop does not define a precisely delineated genre. • Eclectic: This double issue has a somewhat eclectic mix of articles on a range of different topics.

  3. Definitions • Abeyance: temporary suspension • Cajole: to coax with flattery and insincere talk • Beacon: any light for warning or guiding • Delineate: to describe: to depict in words • Eclectic: selecting from various systems, doctrines, or sources

  4. 2 • Fallacious: Fallacious reasoning needs to be exposed and rebutted. • Gamut: The film contains footage of the whole gamut of royal navy ships of the time. • Historicity: For these three reasons, the accuracy of the burial story supports the historicity of the empty tomb. • Idiosyncrasy: The hunter proved interesting company talking about the idiosyncrasies of canyon life. • Jaunty: The song is slightly out of place, but quite jaunty and cheeky; it only lasts for 1:27, so it doesn't grate.

  5. Definitions • Fallacious: misleading or deceptive • Gamut: the entire range or extent of anything • Historicity: authenticity • Idiosyncrasy: personal peculiarity or mannerism • Jaunty: carefree; perky

  6. 3 • Lament: His amiable personality acquired him a large circle of friends, who deeply lament his death. • Malfeasance: The malfeasance he committed was proven true by the court. • Noisome: Mrs. Meyer’s classroom was noisome after a class period with 28 freshmen. • Occult: He who studies the occult, studies all the deepest mysteries of existence and nature. • Peccadillo: I was very ashamed of this little peccadillo of mine; I didn’t mean to lie to my teacher.

  7. Definitions • Lament: to mourn or grieve • Malfeasance: wrongdoing or misconduct • Noisome: having a bad odor; foul-smelling • Occult: secret; mysterious • Peccadillo: minor or petty sin; slight fault

  8. 4 • Querulous: Her querulous tone suggested her dismay with the assignment. • Reciprocate: •He frequently came in contact with his employer and entertained for him strong friendship and deep respect, which was fully reciprocated by his boss. • Servile: Though he is not servile or mercenary, he is the victim of poverty. • Tenet: Peter Abelard leads his teacher to the verge of a nervous breakdown with his philosophical tenets. • Volatile: Sadly the modern game has higher stakes than the past which in turn has made the game more volatile.

  9. Definitions • Querulous: full of complaint; peevish • Reciprocate: to cause to move alternately back and forth • Servile: humbly yielding or submissive; of a slave or slaves • Tenet: principle, doctrine, or believe held as truth • Volatile: flying or able to fly

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