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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amenable
 
 
(1)
a.  E.g. He was amenable to any suggestions that came from those he looked up to.
Select answer:
joking ,often inappropriately; humorous
wildly disordered; excessive enthusiasm or excitement; insane
short-lived; enduring a very short time
agonizing; distressing extremely painful
responsive to advice or suggestion; responsible to higher authority; willing to comply with; agreeable
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celestial
 
 
(2)
a.  E.g. She spoke of the celestial joys that awaited virtuous souls in the hereafter.
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relating to the sky or the heavens; supremely good; god or angel
of the same or similar nature or kind
unpleasantly sharp or bitter to taste or smell; bitterly pungent
subordinate; secondary; serving to assist or supplement
untimely; poorly chosen; inconvenient; unseasonable; unsuitable
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composure
 
 
(3)
n.  E.g. Even the latest work crisis failed to shake her composure.
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reply, especially to answer in a quick, caustic, or witty manner
chronological record of the events of successive years
rebuke; punishment or retribution that one deserves; outcome which is justly deserved
mental calmness; calm or tranquil state of mind
study of insects; branch of zoology which treats of insects
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drudgery
 
 
(4)
n.  E.g. Cinderella's fairy godmother rescued her from a life of drudgery.
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introduction; forerunner; preliminary or preface
hard monotonous routine work
indefinitely long period of time; age
mental calmness; calm or tranquil state of mind
quality of endurance and courage; good temperament and character
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fastidious
 
 
(5)
a.  E.g. Bobby was such a fastidious eater that he would eat a sandwich only if his mother first cut off every scrap of crust.
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unpopulated; providing no shelter or sustenance; devoid of inhabitants
indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain
difficult to please; having complicated requirements; excessively particular demanding about details
festive; occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
state of being held in high esteem and honor
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harrowing
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. At first the former prisoner did not wish to discuss his harrowing months of captivity as a political hostage.
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repeated too often; over familiar through overuse
relating to essential nature of a thing; inherent; built-in
agonizing; distressing extremely painful
rough and stormy; loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance
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limpid
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. A limpid stream ran through his property.
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peaceful; tranquil; calm or quiet
advanced in development; appearing or developing early
marked by or given to innovations; introducing a change
extremely disturbed from emotion
clear, transparent or bright; calm, untroubled, and without worry
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notable
 
 
(8)
a.  E.g. Today the head cook was shaking, for the notable chef Julia Child was coming to dinner.
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silent or reserved in speech; saying little; not inclined to speak or converse
likely to fail or be inaccurate
low in spirits; depressed; directed downward
worthy of note or notice; remarkable; important
struck by shock, terror, or amazement
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palpable
 
 
(9)
a.  E.g. The patient's enlarged spleen was palpable: even the first year medical student could feel it.
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indecent; obscene; humorously coarse
free, without charge; costing nothing
free of guilt; not subject to blame; completely acceptable
tangible; easily perceptible; unmistakable
timely; just in time; suited or right for a particular purpose
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requiem
 
 
(10)
n.  E.g. They played Mozart's requiem at the funeral.
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questioner, especially who is excessively rigorous or harsh; investigator
mass for dead; song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as memorial
active strength of body or mind; imaginative lively style, especially style of writing; exertion of force
period of greatest popularity, success, or power; golden age
excessive zeal; extreme devotion to a belief or cause
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stupor
 
 
(11)
n.  E.g. In his stupor, the addict was unaware of the events taking place around him.
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state of reduced or suspended sensibility; daze; lack of awareness
unit of poem, written or printed as a paragraph
one that expounds or interprets; one that speaks for, represents, or advocates
central or vital part; most material and central part; grain or seed as of corn
error in naming person or place; name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object
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whinny
 
 
(12)
v.  E.g. When you laugh through nose, it sounded as if you whinny.
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provide for or supply inadequately; deal with hastily, carelessly, or with poor material
gradually deprive infants of mother's milk; detach affections of
delay; leave slowly and hesitantly; wait
neigh, as a horse, especially in gentle tone; cry of horse
include; consist of; be composed of
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