3500 ACT Vocabulary

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(批判,自我牺牲) repudiation; self-sacrifice; renouncing your own interests in favor of interests of others


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(节制(饮食),调节) sparing or moderation in eating and drinking; temperate


Spelling Word: abstemious
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(加速度) faster rate of improvement; rate of change of velocity with respect to time


Spelling Word: acceleration
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(装饰) enhance or decorate with or as if with ornaments


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(偶然) accidental; casual; not inherent but added extrinsically


Spelling Word: adventitious
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(敏捷) mentally quick; moving quickly and lightly


Spelling Word: agility
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(辅助的) serving as aid or accessory; auxiliary


Spelling Word: ancillary
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(历史环境,历史背景) preceding events or circumstances that influence what comes later; ancestors or early background


Spelling Word: antecedents
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(高点,顶点,高潮) highest point; vertex; summit; climax


Spelling Word: apex
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(同意,批准) expression of warm approval; praise


Spelling Word: approbation