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.
Free Online Vocabulary 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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acrid
 
 
(1)
a.  E.g. The air seemed to have different grades of warmth and chill in it; they were passing a farmyard with strong-smelling, acrid from the sour smell of manure.
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exhibiting good judgment or sound thinking; prudent
perceptive; shrewd; having insight
determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; capricious
lacking variety or excitement; monotonous
unpleasantly sharp or bitter to taste or smell; bitterly pungent
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axiom
 
 
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n.  E.g. Before a student can begin to think along the lines of Euclidean geometry, he must accept certain principle or axiom.
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self-evident truth requiring no proof
payment or expense; output
place of residence of a person or a family
inscription on tombstone in memory
one who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people; bootlicker; yes man
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debonair
 
 
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a.  E.g. The debonair youth was liked by all who met him, because of his cheerful and obliging manner.
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full of wishful yearning or longing; sadly thoughtful
very destructive; tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly
friendly; of good appearance and manners; graceful
having casual sexual relations frequently with different partners; irregular, casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
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dote
 
 
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v.  E.g. Not only grandmothers bore you with stories about their brilliant grandchildren; grandfathers dote on the little rascals, too.
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ease or lessen pain; satisfy or appease
wear away or irritate by rubbing; make sore by rubbing; annoy; vex
give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy
fall from clouds; hurl or throw violently; fall vertically, sharply, or headlong
be excessively fond of; show signs of mental decline
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encroachment
 
 
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n.  E.g. The encroachment of the factories upon the neighborhood lowered the value of the real estate.
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popular fashion; current state or style of general acceptance and use
active resistance; condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor
misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by public official
gradual intrusion; entry into a place that was previously uncommon; advance beyond former borders
mentally quick; moving quickly and lightly
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garish
 
 
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a.  E.g. She wore a rhinestone necklace with an excessively garish gold lame dress.
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lacking cohesion, connection, or harmony; unable to think in clear manner
magnificent and splendid, suggesting abundance and great expense; luxurious
over-bright in color; tastelessly showy
joking ,often inappropriately; humorous
not able to be perceived by senses, as touch; vague
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insolence
 
 
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n.  E.g. How dare you treat me so rudely! The manager will hear of your insolence.
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scornful treatment; insulting speech or conduct
metal striker that hangs inside bell and makes sound by hitting side; someone who applauds
feeling of being bored by something tedious
greed; excessive desire, especially for wealth
measure or dimension from side to side; width; extent
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muted
 
 
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a.  E.g. Thanks to the thick, sound-absorbing walls of the cathedral, only muted traffic noise reached the worshippers within.
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turned or twisted toward one side; at an angle
implied or understood though not directly expressed
silent; muffled; toned down; indistinct
indisputable; not open to question
ravenous; excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities
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paradigm
 
 
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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.
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study of historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words
one that serves as a pattern or model; system of assumptions, concepts, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
one derived from another; offspring or descendant; result of creative effort, as product
action taken in return for injury or offense
song for two or three unaccompanied voices; short poem, often about love, suitable for being set to music
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respite
 
 
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n.  E.g. For David, the two weeks vacationing in New Zealand were a delightful respite from the pressures of his job.
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usually short interval of rest or relief; delay in punishment
separation or division into factions; formal division or split within religious body
photographic composition combining elements from different sources
place where things may be put for safekeeping, as storehouse, warehouse, museum, or tomb
opinion contrary to popular belief; opinion contrary to accepted religion
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tantamount
 
 
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a.  E.g. Though Rudy claimed his wife was off visiting friends, his shriek of horror when she walked into the room was tantamount to a confession that he believed she was dead.
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looking within oneself; thoughtful about oneself; studying or exhibiting one's own internal state
fearless; indicating or springing from courage
impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed
equivalent in effect or value
slow and laborious because of weight; labored and dull
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zeal
 
 
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n.  E.g. Katya's zeal was contagious; soon all her fellow students were busily making posters, inspired by her ardent enthusiasm for the cause.
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intense interest; eagerness to accomplish some object
expectation of misfortune; feeling of evil to come; unfavorable omen
equality in status or amount; similarity or close
natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship; relationship by marriage
sudden feeling of sickness or faintness; sudden attack of illness
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