3500 ACT Vocabulary

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fall away or back; decline or recede; fall back from the flood stage


Spelling Word: ebb
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having few teeth; lacking teeth


Spelling Word: edentate
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able to produce a desired effect; valid


Spelling Word: effectual
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crude figure or dummy representing a hated person or group; likeness or image, especially of a person


Spelling Word: effigy
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lifted up; raised; elevated; fill with optimism


Spelling Word: elate
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adorn; make beautiful, as by ornamentation; decorate


Spelling Word: embellish
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elaboration by the use of decorative detail; ornamentation of fabric with needlework


Spelling Word: embroidery
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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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enclose or encase completely with or as if with a covering


Spelling Word: envelop
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period of equal days and nights; beginning of Spring and Autumn


Spelling Word: equinox