3500 ACT Vocabulary

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repeated too often; over familiar through overuse


Spelling Word: hackneyed
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kind of gas they were using to fill the balloon


Spelling Word: helium
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halves; half of a sphere bounded by a great circle


Spelling Word: hemisphere
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consisting of dissimilar elements or parts; completely different


Spelling Word: heterogeneous
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figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis; overstatement


Spelling Word: hyperbole
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branch of zoology that deals with study of fishes


Spelling Word: ichthyology
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exact sameness; distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity


Spelling Word: identity
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expression whose meaning differs from meanings of its individual words; distinctive style


Spelling Word: idiom
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beg persistently; ask for urgently or repeatedly; annoy


Spelling Word: importune
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thriftless; not providing for future; incautious


Spelling Word: improvident