ACT Words 1-50 Quiz

Match the following

• hate, detest

• ajar

• partially open

• abut

• to adjoin, border upon

• aftermath

• consequence of

• abhor

• calm, soothing

• balm

Match the following

• situated in front

• alleviate

• to make less severe, relieve

• anterior

• utterly hate, detest

• affidavit

• a sworn written statement

• abominate

• bottomless pit, profound depth or void

• abyss

Match the following

• to create, to give birth to

• blather

• to talk nonsensically

• accolade

• an award, an honor, praise

• beget

• hiding place, or objects in hiding place

• cache

• extremely unconventional, far fetched

• bizarre

Match the following

• unfeeling, insensitive

• callous

• depressing, harsh, raw

• affinity

• to besiege, surround, harass

• artisan

• a natural attraction, kinship

• beleaguer

• a worker skilled in a craft

• bleak

Match the following

• mood, feeling, general atmosphere

• alienate

• to deprive and make desolate

• abridge

• a harsh sound

• bereave

• to shorten, condense

• cacophony

• to make hostile, cause to feel unwelcome

• ambiance

Match the following

• to increase in size, appear greater

• cajole

• agreeable. pleasant

• beset

• to coax, persuade someone

• amenable

• hard to understand

• aggrandize

• to harass, to surround

• abstruse

Match the following

• a defensive wall, principal defense

• bulwark

• immature and inexperienced

• allure

• to entice, desirable, to tempt

• adjunct

• to make larger, louder, powerful

• callow

• added to another in subordinate position

• amplify

Match the following

• to hit or attack with heavy impact, club

• aloof

• distant, reserved in manner

• bludgeon

• going before, preceding

• candor

• truthfulness, sincere honesty

• also-ran

• one who is defeated in a race, election

• antecedent

Match the following

• filling with dismay, causing horror

• aptitude

• the choice between two possibilities

• apalling

• a heated quarrel

• altercation

• capacity for learning

• archaic

• belonging to an earlier time, ancient

• alternative

Match the following

• roomy, able to hold much

• catapult

• rural or rustic in nature, country

• capacious

• hard, difficult

• castigate

• to criticize harshly

• bucolic

• to launch, hurling objects

• arduous