SAT/ACT PREP VOCAB CH1 D'EMILIO

Early life vests were made of cork and other light materials to ensure ____.

When several things happen quickly in a series with disastrous results, it is sometimes known

To be considered a humanitarian, you must:

Staring angrily, Aki sneered and shook her fist in that tempestuous way of hers. Tempestuous...

nearby; sharing a border or wall

Alice is a humanitarian for volunteering for the Red Cross. Part of speech...

In order to deduce anything, you need:

SYNONYMS: conclude, perceive

something that exists by itself and is separate from other things

Synonym: architecture

A collapsing infrastructure hurts business because:

Connotation

Series Part of speech...

Synonyms: crush, demolish

The __ I'm seeing here is largely poor coastal fishing people now without homes or livelihoods.

We finally managed to decimate the team that kept us from the championship. Decimate means

decimate Part of speech...

Denotation....

SYNONYMS: quick, rash, ill-considered

School, Athletic team, club, organization Examples of:

The Salvation Army's shopping center's customers had a poor ____.

Precipitous Part of speech...

Which of these is a precipitous act?

things that happen or are present one after another, in order

Wild and unpredictable