College Board Top 100 ACT/SAT Vocabulary Words

to settle differences

Will was late to school because he had truck trouble. Those are ____ circumstances.

Chocolate lovers have to show  restraint when the dessert cart rolls by if practicing ???.

The frustrated teenager could not put up with any more of her critical mother’s ???..

For Thoreau, the forest served as an ??? from the pressures of urban life.

Mary received a love poem from an ??? admirer.

patronizing

WeWork has had success attracting businesses looking to ??? with like-minded entrepreneurs.

Police officers should be commended for their ??? service to the community.

to regard with scorn

They shortened the statement for Twitter, failing to recognize how the ??? tweet sounded.

joining of parts

Often the subjects pertain to some ??? or difficulty that the applicant has overcome.

Farah faced unwanted headlines, a far cry from the ??? he received at the 2012 London Games.

Acting amazed that others haven't heard of a hot new band is _____.

??? among employees usually leads to success in business.

Superman and Bizarro Superman shared a mutual ??? and often fought.

When people are red-cheeked with good health they are _____.

Because culture wars rarely have such ??? endings, some lessons here are worth pondering.

Michell’s initial and ______thought was only to help the penguin survive.

Their stories give his book a supply of wild ??, although the biography is too bleak to be fun.

______ people excel at what they do and are examples to others.

provisional, contingent

Little other than palm trees and cacti grow successfully in??? environments.

We old folks with our ??? notions may be spared some of the annoyances of this changing world.

Altruism and ??? toward the feelings of others represent the best of human impulses.

The construction workers erected the skyscraper during two years of ??? labor.

The bus’s ??? route took us through numerous outlying suburbs.

Nothing short of surreal, the shop reflects the tongue-in-cheek  ??? of a visionary.

Zelda’s uncanny ability to detect my lies was nothing short of ???.