ACT Vocabulary Test Online

This is a pure web app that evaluates your ACT vocabulary skills. The app has a built-in basic level ACT vocabulary of 1200 words, which can help you devise a vocabulary-building plan to prepare for the test.
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Before the ACT exam, students usually try to enhance their vocabulary as much as possible. Although ACT isn't a pure English test, three of them mainly rely on English skills. Like all English tests, you cannot expect to get a high score with poor vocabulary. Vocabulary is definitely the base for thinking, talking, reading, and writing, which is the foundation of any language skills. To build ACT vocabulary, you need to study first and then review known words to keep them warm.

This app, ACT Vocabulary Test Online, is a tool to help you build ACT vocabulary. Within modern education methodology, the app runs on random practice. It has a built-in set of more than 1000 ACT words, which are matched with the middle level of 12th-grade students and are highly useful in ACT papers.

The app needs to store your test data because its core features rely on results from previous practices. So you should sign up before any activities. ACT Vocabulary Test Online is free. You can use a generic examword.com account (email/access code) to sign in. If you don't have an account yet, creating one only takes a few minutes. Sign in and start to enjoy this fantastic web app!
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allege
 
 
(1)
v.  E.g. If what Justice Department prosecutors allege is true, the five guards should have to answer for what happened on Sept. 16, 2007.
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state without proof; assert to be true
imply or require; cause to ensue or accrue; cut or carve in ornamental way
be or go beyond, as in degree or quality; exceed
give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy
injure or hurt; become worse; affect negatively
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capricious
 
 
(2)
a.  E.g. The storm was capricious: it changed course constantly.
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so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded
restrained; self-controlled; moderate in degree or quality
fickle; impulsive and unpredictable; apt to change opinions suddenly
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; multicolored
prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs
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commiserate
 
 
(3)
v.  E.g. Her friends commiserate with the widow.
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read or examine, typically with great care
inscribe or dedicate; attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin; assign as a quality
make invalid; nullify; destroy
feel or express pity or sympathy for
agree; give consent, often at insistence of another; concede
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discrete
 
 
(4)
a.  E.g. The universe is composed of discrete bodies.
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incapable of being pacified; not to be relieved;
determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; capricious
separate; consisting of unconnected distinct parts
gloomy; depressing or grave; dull or dark in color
one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
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felicitous
 
 
(5)
a.  E.g. He was famous for his felicitous remarks and was called upon to serve as master-of-ceremonies at many a banquet.
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apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; multicolored
deviating from normal or common order, form, or rule
suggesting puzzlement; mocking; curious
located in outer boundary; unimportant; auxiliary
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gambit
 
 
(6)
n.  E.g. The player was afraid to accept his opponent's gambit because he feared a trap which as yet he could not see.
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person with prejudiced belief in superiority of own kind
chess move in which player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain advantageous position
natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection
systematic, usually extensive written discourse on a subject
humorous short verse; nonsense song or verse
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insulated
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. That basic research and advanced technology budgets are not insulated from the big NASA projects.
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dull and unimaginative; lacking taste or flavor
set apart; isolated in restricted sense, so remote from other bodies
equivalent in effect or value
causing damage or harm; injurious
exceeding reasonable limits; excessive; not regulated; disorderly
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misgiving
 
 
(8)
n.  E.g. I have no misgiving in recommending Ms Liu for the position you have in mind.
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highest point; vertex; summit; climax
reserve; state or quality of being reluctant; unwillingness
pretense; something intended to misrepresent
feeling of doubt, distrust, or apprehension
stubborn intolerance; excessive zeal or warmth in favor of a party, sect, or opinion
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pachyderm
 
 
(9)
n.  E.g. The elephant is probably the best-known pachyderm.
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strictness or severity, as in temperament, action, or judgment; something hard to endure
any of various large, thick-skinned, hoofed mammals, as elephant
reply, especially to answer in a quick, caustic, or witty manner
intensity of feeling; warmth of feeling; intense, heated emotion
abnormal; markedly different from an accepted norm
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seep
 
 
(10)
v.  E.g. During the rainstorm, water would seep through the crack in the basement wall and damage the floor boards.
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fill with horror and loathing; horrify; hate
pass gradually or leak through, as if through small openings
assent; agree without protesting
fall from clouds; hurl or throw violently; fall vertically, sharply, or headlong
look at amorously; cast glances as in fondness or to attract notice
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soliloquy
 
 
(11)
n.  E.g. The soliloquy is a device used by the dramatist to reveal a character's innermost thoughts and emotions.
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noise, as made by a crowd; riot or uprising
swiftness of action or motion; speed
intensity of feeling; warmth of feeling; intense, heated emotion
talking to oneself; act of a character speaking to himself so as to reveal his thoughts to audience
firmness of hold or of purpose; persistence
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unfathomable
 
 
(12)
a.  E.g. Unable to get to the bottom of the mystery, Watson declared it was unfathomable.
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unpopulated; providing no shelter or sustenance; devoid of inhabitants
repeated too often; over familiar through overuse
left and abandoned; negligent in performing a duty
wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through; able to be steered
difficult or impossible to understand; difficult or impossible to measure
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