3500 ACT Vocabulary
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3500 ACT Vocabulary
Group (9) - Matching Quizzes
naivete 
1
 | lack of sophistication, experience, judgment or worldliness; simplicity; artlessness; gullibility |
| favorable or advantageous circumstance; chance for progress or advancement |
| one who believes traditional beliefs to be groundless and existence meaningless; absolute skeptic |
| invalid; void; nullified; having no legal force; invalid |
nascent
2
| having an opponent; averse of |
| belief in magical spells to produce unnatural effects; practice of supposedly communicating with spirits of dead ones to predict future |
| incipient; coming into existence; emerging |
| especially; in a notable manner; remarkably; particularly |
nettle
3
| newborn infant, especially one less than four weeks old |
| cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; vex |
| noisily aggressive; making great noise or outcry |
| in notorious manner; ; publicly; openly; plainly |
neutral
4
| expel; eject from a position or place; force out |
| burden or obligation; difficult or disagreeable responsibility or necessity |
| act of extreme violence or viciousness; offense |
| impartial; not supporting one side over another |
nonconformity
5
| no longer usable or practical; obsolete; not in fashion |
| exposed; easily discovered; plain |
| change or form into bone; become set in a rigidly conventional pattern; change from soft tissue to hard bony tissue |
| failure to conform; lack of harmony or correspondence |
nonplus
6
| express an opinion; think; suppose |
| go beyond; surpass; exceed |
| extremely disturbed from emotion |
| perplex or bewilder someone; confound or flummox |
obligatory
7
| act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie; written promise to repay a debt |
| having slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined |
| skilled public speaker; person who pronounces discourse publicly on some special occasion, as pleader or lawyer |
| morally or legally constraining; required; binding |
obstreperous
8
| noisily aggressive; making great noise or outcry |
| having total knowledge; knowing everything |
| elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton |
| extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance |
obtain
9
| grow too large for; lose or discard in the course of maturation |
| get hold of; gain possession of; acquire, in any way |
| act of extreme violence or viciousness; offense |
| elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton |
onus
10
| extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance |
| homesickness; bittersweet longing for things of past. |
| burden or obligation; difficult or disagreeable responsibility or necessity |
| wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through; able to be steered |