3500 ACT Vocabulary

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full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe


Spelling Word: dangerous
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fatal; lethal; causing or tending to cause death


Spelling Word: deadly
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withdrawing support or help; act of abandoning something to which one is bound by allegiance or duty; failure in duty


Spelling Word: defection
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done with or marked by full consciousness of the nature and effects; intentional


Spelling Word: deliberate
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object because of doubts; hesitate


Spelling Word: demur
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inhabitant or resident; regular visitor


Spelling Word: denizen
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violate with violence, especially to sacred place


Spelling Word: desecrate
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event that will inevitably happen in the future


Spelling Word: destiny
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skillful in the use of the hands; having mental skill


Spelling Word: dexterous
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dwindle; reduce; make smaller or less or to cause to appear so


Spelling Word: diminish