ESL ACT Vocabulary
ACT Vocabularies: 3500 Words Words for ESL
SAT Vocabularies: 3000 Words 500 Hard Words 500 Essay Words
Group (4) - Matching Quizzes
quest 
1
 | act of searching for something |
| abandon; disown; turn away from; give up |
| crystal of snow |
| criteria; basis for comparison |
retailer
2
| art or study of using language effectively and persuasively; insincere language |
| company which sells goods |
| abandon; disown; turn away from; give up |
| a more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense or motion |
retriever
3
| any agent that carries and sends something |
| causing extreme terror; very great; extraordinarily good |
| a dog that can be trained to retrieve game |
| clever; intelligent; showing mental alertness and calculation |
revolutionize
4
| completely change; dramatically change |
| clever; intelligent; showing mental alertness and calculation |
| breathing; process of inhaling and exhaling; oxidative process occurring within living cells |
| branch that flows into the main stream; tending to bring about; being partly responsible for |
rhetoric
5
| being often in public eye; obvious to the eye |
| art or study of using language effectively and persuasively; insincere language |
| become stable or more stable |
| act of searching for something |
selection
6
| a dog that can be trained to retrieve game |
| become smaller or draw together; compress |
| causing extreme terror; very great; extraordinarily good |
| choice; variety; collection |
shepherd
7
| crystal of snow |
| bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of |
| act of sustaining; something, especially food, that sustains life or health |
| a herder of sheep; someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock |
shrink
8
| bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of |
| become smaller or draw together; compress |
| country; relating to rural areas |
| a flat float made of logs or planks; a large number or amount or extent |
shutter
9
| animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column |
| cut the surface of; cause friction |
| causing extreme terror; very great; extraordinarily good |
| a hinged blind for a window |
slum
10
| art or study of using language effectively and persuasively; insincere language |
| act of sustaining; something, especially food, that sustains life or health |
| continue to live; endure or last |
| a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions |