3500 ACT Vocabulary

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(减短,缩写) make shorter; reduce to shorter form intended to represent full form, as for word or phrase


Spelling Word: abbreviate
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(尖酸的(语气,脾气)) bitterness of speech and temper; sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone


Spelling Word: acerbity
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(保险精算的,精算) calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics


Spelling Word: actuarial
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(收集) collect; gather for oneself, as for one's pleasure or profit


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(有服从义务的,随时服从的) responsive to advice or suggestion; responsible to higher authority; willing to comply with; agreeable


Spelling Word: amenable
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(友谊) friendship; peaceful relations, as between nations


Spelling Word: amity
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(有尖角的,瘦骨嶙峋的) sharp-cornered; consisting of an angle or angles; stiff in manner


Spelling Word: angular
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(敌意) feeling of enmity or ill will; attitude that informs one's actions; disposition


Spelling Word: animus
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(反抗,敌对) active resistance; condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor


Spelling Word: antagonism
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(植物园) place where different tree varieties are exhibited


Spelling Word: arboretum