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.
Stories of USA Today
Materials for Reading & Listening Practice
 Action Panel
 Questions & Answers
Show  
 Introduction
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!
Demo Test Sheet

advocacy
 
 
(1)
n.  E.g. No threats could dissuade Bishop Desmond Tutu from his advocacy of the human rights of black South Africans.
Select answer:
everyday speech of people, as distinguished from literary language; natural style; standard native language of a country or locality
rapid growth; spread; increase in size by reproduction
representation that is deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic effect
support; active pleading on behalf of something
earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends
Don't select.
bawdy
 
 
(2)
a.  E.g. Jack took offense at Jill's bawdy remarks. What kind of young man did she think he was?
Select answer:
marked by energy and vigor; manly; able to copulate, as for male
joking ,often inappropriately; humorous
relating to, or contributing to sense of smell
indecent; obscene; humorously coarse
making or willing to yield, or to make concessions
Don't select.
chide
 
 
(3)
v.  E.g. Grandma began to chide Steven for his lying.
Select answer:
scold mildly so as to correct or improve; express disapproval
free of; rid; remove all of one's clothing
cause to go gently and smoothly through air or over water
differ in opinion or feeling; withhold assent or approval
support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion
Don't select.
empirical
 
 
(4)
a.  E.g. He distrusted hunches and intuitive flashes; he placed his reliance entirely on empirical data.
Select answer:
reluctant; disinclined; turned away or backward; unwilling
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
consisting of dissimilar elements or parts; completely different
occurring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals; not thick or dense
Don't select.
epitome
 
 
(5)
n.  E.g. Singing "I am the very model of a modern Major-General," in The Pirates of Penzance, Major-General Stanley proclaimed himself the epitome of an officer and a gentleman.
Select answer:
nonentity; worthless person or thing; zero
representative or perfect example of a class or type; brief summary, as of a book or article
reserve; state or quality of being reluctant; unwillingness
natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection
patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments; one who is morbidly anxious about his health, and generally depressed
Don't select.
furlough
 
 
(6)
n.  E.g. Dreaming of her loved ones back in the States, the young soldier could hardly wait for her upcoming furlough.
Select answer:
downward slope, as of a hill
leave of absence; vacation granted a soldier or civil servant
excuse; something serving to conceal plans; fictitious reason
symbol of disgrace; small mark, as scar or birthmark; mark made with red-hot iron
a large group or crowd; wandering troop or gang; a moving crowd
Don't select.
inveterate
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. An inveterate smoker, Bob cannot seem to break the habit, no matter how hard he tries.
Select answer:
not open to question; obviously true; beyond dispute or doubt
familiar, as by study or experience; able to converse knowledgeably
very small; tiny; lowercase letter
tending to call up emotions, memories
deep-rooted; firmly and long established; habitual
Don't select.
muggy
 
 
(8)
a.  E.g. The air is slightly muggy from the thunderstorm that passed over at lunch, dark and loud without shedding a drop.
Select answer:
consisting of dissimilar elements or parts; completely different
conquered; overpowered; becoming quieter; not glaring in color; soft in tone
deserving of praise; worthy of high praise
having disagreeable odor or taste of decomposing oils or fats
warm and extremely humid; moist; damp; moldy
Don't select.
paradigm
 
 
(9)
n.  E.g. Pavlov's experiment in which he trains a dog to salivate on hearing a bell is a paradigm of the conditioned-response experiment in behavioral psychology.
Select answer:
poet, especially lyric poet
gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter
one that serves as a pattern or model; system of assumptions, concepts, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
thin layer; coating consisting of thin layer; ornamental coating to a building
extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance
Don't select.
reprove
 
 
(10)
v.  E.g. The principal would severely reprove the students whenever they talked in the halls.
Select answer:
explain or describe in detail
charge; accuse formally of a crime
applaud; announce with great approval
enrage; make furious or mad with anger
voice or convey disapproval of; rebuke; find fault with
Don't select.
shyster
 
 
(11)
n.  E.g. He is horrified to learn that his newly-discovered half brother is nothing but a cheap shyster.
Select answer:
sameness or consistency; freedom from variation or difference
animals of a period or region
lawyer using questionable methods; unethical lawyer or politician
injury that doesn't break the skin
filthy and wretched condition or quality; dirty or neglected state
Don't select.
ventriloquist
 
 
(12)
n.  E.g. This ventriloquist does an act in which she has a conversation with a wooden dummy.
Select answer:
large volume; large and scholarly book
slow gallop; moderate running pace of horse
one who can make his voice seem to come from another person or thing
science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in
picture design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into surface
Don't select.
Create my Test Sheet