ACT Vocab 13

If evidence links someone to wrongdoing, you might say he or she is:

• implicated
• abhored
• amended
• commodious

A substance that eats away at a surface can be described as being:

• commodious
• buffet
• corrosive
• chaos

If people abhor injustice, they:

• perpetuate it
• detest it
• defend it
• overlook it

Jill and I felt at peace as we sat in the moonlight and watched the waves ______ the shore.

• buffet
• chaos
• amend
• discern

The Founding Fathers set up a method to _____ the Constitution that is neither too easy nor too difficult to use.

• discern
• implicate
• corrode
• amend

We can expect _____ in the years ahead if we do not develop a tough, realistic conservation policy.

• extant
• chaos
• abhor
• buffet

The time has come for us to ______ our ancient disputes and go forward as a truly united people.

• implicate
• abhor
• inter
• amend

I’d prefer to rent a bungalow so ______ that I’ll have room for guests on the weekends.

• corrosive
• extant
• inter
• commodious

The custom by which a young man buys his bride through a payment to her father is still _______ in some parts of the world.

• chaos
• extant
• commodious
• amended

Based on how it is used in the following sentence, which is the best definition of discern? "As far as anyone could discern, none of these people had committed any crimes or done anything reprehensible."

• perceive
• prove
• deny
• decide