ACT/SAT Vocabulary Review

Showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish

• Animosity

• Altruistic

• Banal

• Anomalous

(of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation, not formal or literary

• Diatribe (n.)

• Colloquial (adj.)

• Eclectic (adj.)

• Delineate (v.)

Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources

• Eclectic (adj.)

• Eccentric (adj.)

• Gratuitous (adj.)

• Incessant (adj.)

Match the following

• (of an amount) small or meager

• Copious (adj.)

• Make (problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse

• Insipid (adj.)

• A lack of sufficient taste or flavor

• Egregious (adj.)

• Outstandingly bad; shocking

• Paltry (adj.)

• Abundant in supply or quantity

• Exacerbate (v.)

Contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly

• Feign (v.)

• Extol (v.)

• Fawning (adj.)

• Craven (adj.)

To make something clear; explain

• Emulate (v.)

• Peruse (v.)

• Elucidate (v.)

• Indigent (adj.)

Special honor or respect shown publicly

• Homage (n.)

• Heresy(n.)

• Stoic (n.)

• Prudent (adj.)

A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.

• Zealot (n.)

• Enigma (n.)

• Stoic (n.)

• Tirade (n.)

Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.

• Plausible (adj.)

• Wanton (adj.)

• Furtive (adj.)

• Poignant (adj.)

A mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.

• Fallacy (n.)

• Heresy (n.)

• Tirade (n.)

• Turpitude (n.)