ACT/SAT 2nd Semester Words Sewell

Question 1

This is a medicine to help relieve constipation.

Accepted Answer

laxative

Question 2

To develop over time means to ...

Accepted Answer

evolve

Question 3

This is a state of being excessively overweight.

Accepted Answer

obesity, corpulence

Question 4

Here is a picture of the action of the word that means harmless.

Accepted Answer

innocuous

Question 5

The relative importance of matters from a particular point of view.

Accepted Answer

perspective

Question 6

________ is to be exempt from something, as in disease.

Accepted Answer

immune

Question 7

The picture of this word is a guy with a "beer cap" on his head. What is the word?

Accepted Answer

inebriated

Question 8

Tending not to participate actively

Accepted Answer

passive

Question 9

A feeling of sickness in the stomach

Accepted Answer

nausea

Question 10

Enervate means to _____________

Accepted Answer

to lessen the vitality or strenght

Question 11

Many of you are motivated by money. It is your ________________.

Accepted Answer

incentive

Question 12

Students do this to me all the time when they don't listen.

Accepted Answer

exasperate

Question 13

The atomic bomb _______ Hiroshima, Japan.

Accepted Answer

eradicated

Question 14

This word means to cause to become less or worse.

Accepted Answer

impair

Question 15

When I broke my leg in three places I was in______ pain.

Accepted Answer

excruciating

Question 16

A word that means to increase or improve in value

Accepted Answer

enhance

Question 17

Many criminals participate in this type of behavior.

Accepted Answer

illicit

Question 18

This word means difficult to accomplish and the action is like you are climbing. What is it?

Accepted Answer

formidable

Question 19

This word means not appropriate, suitable or becoming.

Accepted Answer

Improper

Question 20

That which passes the ordinary is the definition for ______

Accepted Answer

excess

Questions 20