3500 ACT Vocabulary

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Read [Esc] (1)
fall away or back; decline or recede; fall back from the flood stage


Spelling Word: ebb
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instruct or correct, especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement


Spelling Word: edify
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exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object


Spelling Word: effort
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act of throwing or shooting out; darting or casting forth; uttering of exclamations, or of brief exclamatory phrases


Spelling Word: ejaculation
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embed; enclose in or as if in a case


Spelling Word: encase
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country or part of a country lying wholly within boundaries of another


Spelling Word: enclave
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in danger, at risk; small in numbers, with significant possibility of extinction, of species


Spelling Word: endangered
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weaken or destroy strength or vitality of; remove a nerve or part of a nerve


Spelling Word: enervate
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obscure; puzzling; not easily explained or accounted for


Spelling Word: enigmatic
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avoid; refuse to use or participate in; stand aloof from


Spelling Word: eschew