3500 ACT Vocabulary

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extinguish; put down forcibly; suppress; pacify or quiet


Spelling Word: quell
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extremely hungry; voracious; eager for prey


Spelling Word: ravenous
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destroy completely; scrape or shave off


Spelling Word: raze
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fame; quality of being widely honored and acclaimed


Spelling Word: renown
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reply, especially to answer in a quick, caustic, or witty manner


Spelling Word: retort
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fall or tumble down; destroy; devastate; exterminate


Spelling Word: ruin
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satisfy appetite fully; satisfy to excess


Spelling Word: sate
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gloomy; marked by tendency to be bitter or sardonic


Spelling Word: saturnine
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give off sparks; shine as if emanating sparks; twinkle or glow


Spelling Word: scintillate
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laziness; apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue; any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals


Spelling Word: sloth