3500 ACT Vocabulary

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beautiful writing; excellent penmanship


Spelling Word: calligraphy
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having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle; knowing; cautious; cunning; shrewd


Spelling Word: canny
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essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals


Spelling Word: carbohydrate
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an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; deluge or overflowing of water


Spelling Word: cataclysm
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unmarried; abstaining from sexual intercourse


Spelling Word: celibate
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rectangular frame attached working parts, as of automobile


Spelling Word: chassis
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faction; tribe; division of a tribe tracing descent from a common ancestor; a large group of relatives


Spelling Word: clan
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combine; fuse; grow together; come together so as to form one whole; unite


Spelling Word: coalesce
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trying to please; showing cheerful willingness to do favors for others


Spelling Word: complaisant
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brief and compact; expressing much in few words


Spelling Word: concise