3500 ACT Vocabulary

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smear as with paint; apply with quick or crude strokes to surface; make crude paintings


Spelling Word: daub
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willingness to carry out the wishes of others; great respect


Spelling Word: deference
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extremely pleasing to the sense of taste; greatly pleasing or entertaining


Spelling Word: delicious
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object because of doubts; hesitate


Spelling Word: demur
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meaning or indication; distinguishing by name; something, such as a sign or symbol, that denotes


Spelling Word: denotation
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annul in part; repeal partly; restrict; limit the action of


Spelling Word: derogate
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expressing devotion or piety; earnest in religious field


Spelling Word: devout
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make uneasy or perplexed; cause to lose one's composure; disconcert


Spelling Word: discomfit
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belittle; speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; reduce in esteem or rank


Spelling Word: disparage
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vary; go in different directions from the same point


Spelling Word: diverge