ACT Vocabulary Test Online

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Before the ACT exam, students usually try to enhance vocabulary as strong 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 to think, talk, read, and write, which is the foundation of any language skills. To build ACT vocabulary, you need to study firstly, and then review known words to keep them refreshed.

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

It is a game-style app. You don't need a detail plan or schedule to use it. Anytime and anywhere, you can access its web pages and practice or test as long as you have the Internet. Some people use it as a tool to evaluate ACT vocabulary. Others use it to study new words or review known words. Based on lots of exercises, you may finally familiarize with the built-in vocabulary and keep them warm until the test day.

The primary functionality of the app is to make ACT word question sheets dynamically, and then hosts the sheets as online practices. Showing quizzes and auto checking answers are its core features. Besides, students can store the result of each test for further analyzing. For example, the data is useful to compare with either previous data or even others' data to improve performance.

The app has some extra features that similar tools hardly have. It includes a sample sentence for each word, which helps very much to learn new words. It also provides definitions of 20 languages for every word and let ESL students select mother language and integrate it with English explanation.

As we mentioned, the app needs to store your test data because its core features are relied on previous practices' results. So you should sign on before any activities. ACT Vocabulary Test Online is free. You can use a generic examword.com account (email/access code) to sign on. If you don't have an account yet, create one is only to take a few minutes. Sign on and start to enjoy this great web app!
Questions and Answers
 Demo Test Sheet

annul
 
 
(1)
v.  E.g. The parents of the eloped couple tried to annul the marriage.
Select answer:
be a match or counterpart for; eager to equal or excel
make or declare void or invalid; reduce to nothing
extinguish; put down forcibly; suppress; pacify or quiet
give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy
bully; intimidate; discourage or frighten with threats
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canvass
 
 
(2)
v.  E.g. After volunteers helped canvass the sentiments of his constituents, the congressman was confident that he represented the majority opinion of his district.
Select answer:
complain or grumble; seek or shoot grouse
determine votes; examine carefully or discuss thoroughly; scrutinize
stand idly about; linger aimlessly; proceed slowly or with many stops
sharpen, as knife; make more keen; stimulate
put to disorderly flight or retreat; drive out; cause to flee; defeat overwhelmingly
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cohesion
 
 
(3)
n.  E.g. A firm believer in the maxim "Divide and conquer," the evil emperor sought to disrupt the cohesion of the federation of free nations.
Select answer:
vocabulary of technical terms used in a particular field, subject, science, or art
tendency to keep together
sudden flood or strong outburst; sudden heavy fall of rain
direct, quick route; direct, straight course
act of coming or going out; emergence; right to leave; path or opening for going out
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devise
 
 
(4)
v.  E.g. How clever he must be to devise such a devious plan!.
Select answer:
stare foolishly; look in open-mouthed awe
form, plan, or arrange in the mind; transmit or give by will
pollute; make dirty or spotty
decrease in size or strength; draw gradually to an end
plunge into water; wet thoroughly; extinguish
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exalt
 
 
(5)
v.  E.g. The queen will exalt the actor Alec Guinness to the rank of knighthood.
Select answer:
draw out; bring forth or to light; generate or provoke as response or answer
scold harshly; criticize severely
gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
raise in rank or dignity; praise
make very hot and dry; become superficially burned
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gratis
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. The company offered to give one package gratis to every purchaser of one of their products.
Select answer:
extremely disturbed from emotion
not moving or flowing; lacking vitality or briskness; stale; dull
free, without charge; costing nothing
deceptive or tending of deceive; not real
curving outward; having surface that bulges outward, as the exterior of sphere
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inconsequential
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. Brushing off Ali's apologies for having broken the wineglass, Tamara said, "Don't worry about it; it's inconsequential.".
Select answer:
having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; malicious
constant in application or attention; diligent; unceasing or persistent
quick and skillful; neat in action or performance
high, tall, having great height; idealistic, implying over-optimism
insignificant; lacking importance; not following from premises or evidence; illogical
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opus
 
 
(8)
n.  E.g. Although many critics hailed his Fifth Symphony as his major work, he did not regard it as his major opus.
Select answer:
creative work, as literary or musical composition
dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality
hairstyle; head-dress; manner of arranging or dressing hair
remainder; small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists
gold and silver in the form of bars
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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:
one that serves as a pattern or model; system of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
final result; outcome or effect; central idea or point; gist
viewer who enjoys seeing sex acts or sex organs of others
departure of a large number of people
inclination; natural tendency; readiness; facility of learning
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ruffian
 
 
(10)
n.  E.g. The ruffian threw stones at the police.
Select answer:
shameless or brazen boldness; insolent and shameless audacity
bully; lawless and cruel; cruel and brutal person or gangster
remedy; compensation; act of correcting error or fault
rectangularl frame attached working parts, as of automobile
noisy speech; speech or piece of writing with strong feeling or expression
Don't select.
subservient
 
 
(11)
a.  E.g. He was proud and dignified; he refused to be subservient to anyone.
Select answer:
obscure; profound; difficult to understand.
having weight of authority; peremptory and dictatorial
plowed but left unseeded during a growing season; uncultivated
behaving like slave; subordinate in capacity or function
acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred; violating sacred things; profane
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waft
 
 
(12)
v.  E.g. Daydreaming, he gazes at the leaves that waft past his window.
Select answer:
cause to go gently and smoothly through air or over water
explain or describe in detail
grieve; express sorrow; regret deeply
put out a fire; extinguish; put an end to; destroy
decorate with ornamental appendages
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