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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arable
 
 
(1)
a.  E.g. The first settlers wrote home glowing reports of the New World, praising its vast acres of arable land ready for the plow.
Select answer:
sticky; gluey; having high resistance to flow
apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
fit for growing crops, as by plowing
friendly; of good appearance and manners; graceful
periodic; on and off; stopping and starting at intervals
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bohemian
 
 
(2)
a.  E.g. Gertrude Stein ran off to Paris to live an eccentric, bohemian life with her writer friends.
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cheating; deceitful; planning or using fraud; given to practice of fraud
equivalent in effect or value
unconventional in an artistic way
dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact; factual
apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
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contemptuous
 
 
(3)
a.  E.g. The diners were intimidated by contemptuous manner of the waiter.
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difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule; not according to rule; irregularly
scornful; expressing contempt; showing a lack of respect
leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; changeable; unsettled
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; multicolored
displaying or by strong enthusiasm or devotion; passionate
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eclectic
 
 
(4)
a.  E.g. His style of interior decoration was eclectic: bits and pieces of furnishings from widely divergent periods, strikingly juxtaposed to create a unique decor.
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composed of elements from a variety of sources
able to live both on land and in water
trivial; of slight worth or importance; frivolous or idle
impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious
lacking proper seriousness; speaking freely; talkative; communicative
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fop
 
 
(5)
n.  E.g. She came to life in London as a real person, not just a fop to make sport of.
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deep gully; a dry gulch; brook or creek; watercourse
vain man; one who want to get admiration by dress; man excessively concerned with his clothes and appearance
awkward and stupid person; troublemaker, often violent
central or vital part; most material and central part; grain or seed as of corn
intensity of feeling; warmth of feeling; intense, heated emotion
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gaffe
 
 
(6)
n.  E.g. According to Miss Manners, to call your husband by your lover's name is worse than a mere gaffe; it is a tactical mistake.
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socially awkward or tactless act; foolish error, especially one made in public
fame; quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
arsonist; bomb that is designed to start fires
downward slope, as of a hill
bully; lawless and cruel; cruel and brutal person or gangster
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irrefutable
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. No matter how hard I tried to find a good comeback for her argument, I couldn't think of one: her logic was irrefutable.
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able to see differences; showing careful judgment or fine taste
dark and gloomy; thick with fog; vague
of lowly origin; not noble in quality, character, or purpose; unworthy
firm, unyielding, or determined; having decided purpose
unable to be disproved; incontrovertible; undeniable
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mitigate
 
 
(8)
v.  E.g. Nothing Jason did could mitigate Medea's anger; she refused to forgive him for betraying her.
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pay costs of; undertake payment of; make compensation to or for
establish by evidence; make firm or solid; support
support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion
make uneasy or anxious; trouble
make less severe or harsh; moderate
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prolific
 
 
(9)
a.  E.g. My editors must assume I'm a prolific writer: they expect me to revise six books this year!.
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producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile
moderately warm; lacking in emotional warmth or enthusiasm; halfhearted
very fat; large in body; overweight
given to expressing yourself freely or insistently
relating to essential nature of a thing; inherent; built-in
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scanty
 
 
(10)
a.  E.g. Thinking his helping of food was scanty, Oliver Twist asked for more.
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unpopulated; providing no shelter or sustenance; devoid of inhabitants
good-natured and likable; lovable; warmly friendly
extremely careful and diligent work or effort; taking of pains
somewhat less than needed in amplitude or extent; insufficient
marked by sudden and violent force; hasty; impulsive and passionate
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shear
 
 
(11)
v.  E.g. You may not care to cut a sheep's hair, but they shear sheep for Little Bo Peep.
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make muddy; mix confusedly; think, act, or proceed in confused or aimless manner
punish, as by beating; criticize severely; rebuke
object because of doubts; hesitate
disprove; prove to be false or incorrect
cut or clip hair; strip of something; remove by cutting or clipping
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waif
 
 
(12)
n.  E.g. Although he already had eight cats, he could not resist adopting yet another feline waif.
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ill will; hatred; quality or state of being hostile
great flood; heavy downpour; any overflowing of water
song for two or three unaccompanied voices; short poem, often about love, suitable for being set to music
surviving remnant; something left after loss or decay; object kept for its association with the past
homeless person, especially orphaned child; abandoned young animal
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