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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annals
 
 
(1)
n.  E.g. In the annals of this period, we find no mention of democratic movements.
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chronological record of the events of successive years
hairstyle; head-dress; manner of arranging or dressing hair
popular fashion; current state or style of general acceptance and use
person who pretends to be sophisticated, elegant to impress others
brutal deed; atrocious condition, quality, or behavior; monstrousness
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caustic
 
 
(2)
a.  E.g. The critic's caustic remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm.
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rough and stormy; loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
concerning each of two or more persons or things; exchangeable; interacting
uncontrollably forceful or fast; done with head leading; headfirst
firmly or constant loyal; fixed or unchanging
capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action
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coiffure
 
 
(3)
n.  E.g. You can make a statement with your choice of coiffure: in the sixties many African Americans affirmed their racial heritage by wearing their hair in Afros.
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truthfulness; unwillingness to tell lies
mass for dead; song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as memorial
greediness for wealth; insatiable desire of gain
hairstyle; head-dress; manner of arranging or dressing hair
facial distortion to show feeling such as pain, disgust
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dowdy
 
 
(4)
a.  E.g. She tried to change her dowdy image by buying a new fashionable wardrobe.
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comical because of strangeness; ludicrously comical; clownish; bizarre
smooth and shining; reflecting luster from smooth or polished surface; plausible
lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby; old-fashioned
surpassing; exceeding ordinary limits; superior
restrained; self-controlled; moderate in degree or quality
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exalt
 
 
(5)
v.  E.g. The queen will exalt the actor Alec Guinness to the rank of knighthood.
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specify or arrange in agreement; express demand in agreement; promise in agreement
reduce or eliminate gradually, with knife; cut small bits off
raise in rank or dignity; praise
injure or hurt; become worse; affect negatively
determine votes; examine carefully or discuss thoroughly; scrutinize
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illusory
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. Unfortunately, the costs of running the lemonade stand were so high that Tom's profits proved illusory.
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tangible; easily perceptible; unmistakable
relating to essential nature of a thing; inherent; built-in
quick and skillful; neat in action or performance
deceptive or tending of deceive; not real
of the same size, extent, or duration as another
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limber
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. Hours of ballet classes kept him limber.
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being without boundaries or limits; infinite; vast
pertaining to land or its cultivation; relating to agricultural or rural matters
demanding much work or care; tedious
weeping or inclined to weep; tearful; showing sorrow
capable of moving, bending, or contorting easily
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muddle
 
 
(8)
v.  E.g. He tried to muddle the issues, we cannot see the hope that they will be addressed quickly.
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give a bodily form to; represent in bodily or material form; incorporate
destroy courage or resolution by exciting dread; cause to lose enthusiasm
make muddy; mix confusedly; think, act, or proceed in confused or aimless manner
make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
chain; fetter; restraint that confines or restricts freedom
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porous
 
 
(9)
a.  E.g. Dancers like to wear porous clothing because it allows the ready passage of water and air.
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occupying lower rank; inferior; submissive
full of pores; able to absorb fluids; full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through
standing out above other things; high in rank, office, or worth
strict or severe in discipline; severely simple and unornamented
coiled around; highly involved; intricate
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rebuke
 
 
(10)
v.  E.g. No matter how sharply I rebuke Huck for his misconduct, he never talks back but just stand there like a stump.
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scold harshly; criticize severely
free of; rid; remove all of one's clothing
luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
ease or lessen pain; satisfy or appease
leave someone who needs or counts on you
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soluble
 
 
(11)
a.  E.g. Sugar is soluble in water; put a sugar cube in water and it will quickly dissolve.
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very fat; large in body; overweight
timely; just in time; suited or right for a particular purpose
able to be dissolved; able to be explained
easily managed or controlled; governable; easily handled or worked; docile
disagreeing, especially with a majority; rebellious
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transcendent
 
 
(12)
a.  E.g. For the amateur chef, dining at the four-star restaurant was a transcendent experience: the meal surpassed his wildest dreams.
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surpassing; exceeding ordinary limits; superior
dull; impassive; having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; worthless; mean; shabby
related to unobstructed and comprehensive view; with a wide view
slow and laborious because of weight; labored and dull
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