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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assent
 
 
(1)
v.  E.g. It gives me great pleasure to assent to your request.
Select answer:
express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept
lay responsibility or blame for, often unjustly
handle someone or something in a rough way; cause serious physical wounds
ease or lessen pain; satisfy or appease
goad or urge forward; provoke; incite
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baffle
 
 
(2)
v.  E.g. The new code will baffle the enemy agents.
Select answer:
contradict; give a false impression
shift to clockwise direction; turn sharply; change direction abruptly
turn into vapor, steam, gas, or fog; decrease rapidly and disappear
give a bodily form to; represent in bodily or material form; incorporate
frustrate as by confusing or perplexing; impede force or movement of
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debonair
 
 
(3)
a.  E.g. The debonair youth was liked by all who met him, because of his cheerful and obliging manner.
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concerning each of two or more persons or things; exchangeable; interacting
able to pay all debts; capable of meeting financial obligations
winding; bending in and out; not morally honest
friendly; of good appearance and manners; graceful
relating to marriage or wedding ceremony
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digress
 
 
(4)
v.  E.g. The professor does not digress from the topic and never bores his students.
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frustrate as by confusing or perplexing; impede force or movement of
make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent; eliminate
behead; cut off the head of
turn aside, especially from main subject in writing or speaking
cut away; cut out; remove by or as if by cutting
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forbearance
 
 
(5)
n.  E.g. We must use forbearance in dealing with him because he is still weak from his illness.
Select answer:
cool, refreshing state of air; art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries
swiftness of action or motion; speed
leave of absence; vacation granted a soldier or civil servant
word or phrase characteristically used to describe a person or thing
patience; restraint of passions; act of forbearing or waiting
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impassive
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. Refusing to let the enemy see how deeply shaken he was by his capture, the prisoner kept his face impassive.
Select answer:
impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed
lacking variety or excitement; monotonous
saw-like; having a row of sharp or tooth-like projections
dull and unimaginative; lacking taste or flavor
without feeling; revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
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incline
 
 
(7)
n.  E.g. The architect recommended that the nursing home's ramp be rebuilt because its incline was too steep for wheelchairs.
Select answer:
entire range; all notes in musical scale
cause to lean, slant, or slope; deviate from the horizontal or vertical
tube in which patterns made by reflection in mirrors of colored pieces of glass; produce interesting symmetrical effects
place where things may be put for safekeeping, as storehouse, warehouse, museum, or tomb
excessive pride or self-confidence
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malevolent
 
 
(8)
a.  E.g. Lago is a malevolent villain who takes pleasure in ruining Othello.
Select answer:
rough and stormy; loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; malicious
lacking cohesion, connection, or harmony; unable to think in clear manner
related to spring; suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
lazy; slow to heal, grow, or develop; inactive
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plummet
 
 
(9)
v.  E.g. Stock prices plummet as Wall Street reacts to the crisis in the economy.
Select answer:
disown; refuse to acknowledge; reject validity or authority of
gradually deprive infants of mother's milk; detach affections of
fall straight down; plunge; decline suddenly and steeply
differ in opinion or feeling; withhold assent or approval
make a pretence of; reproduce someone's behavior or looks
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querulous
 
 
(10)
a.  E.g. Even the most agreeable toddlers can begin to act querulous if they miss their nap.
Select answer:
skillful and adept under pressing conditions
healthily plump and ample of figure; full-bosomed; vigorous; jolly
insignificant; lacking importance; not following from premises or evidence; illogical
differing; tending to move apart in different directions
habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance
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succinct
 
 
(11)
a.  E.g. Don't bore your audience with excess verbiage: be succinct.
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fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative
calm; not easily disturbed; not easily excited to action or passion
full of initiative; marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative
excessively abundant or numerous; in widespread existence, practice, or use
brief or compact; by clear, precise expression in few words
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throe
 
 
(12)
n.  E.g. Then a throe swept over her and she brought her knees up toward her belly and her eyes squeezed shut.
Select answer:
enthusiastic, prolonged applause; show of public homage or welcome
prayer for help; calling upon as reference or support
severe pang of pain, as in childbirth; condition of agonizing struggle or trouble
group of closely located islands
noise, as made by a crowd; riot or uprising
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