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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accrue
 
 
(1)
v.  E.g. The Premier League awards three points for a win and one for a draw, so in a 38-game season the maximum a team can accrue is 114 points.
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put down by force or intimidation ; restrain; crush; oppress; conceal or hide
offer illicit sex with third party; tempt with or appeal to improper motivations
increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth; accumulate over time
shift to clockwise direction; turn sharply; change direction abruptly
injure or hurt; become worse; affect negatively
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canter
 
 
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n.  E.g. Because the racehorse had outdistanced its competition so easily, the reporter wrote that the race was won in a canter.
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bearing of fruit; fulfillment; realization
slow gallop; moderate running pace of horse
reply, especially to answer in a quick, caustic, or witty manner
person regarded as stupid or awkward
popular fashion; current state or style of general acceptance and use
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circuitous
 
 
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a.  E.g. To avoid the traffic congestion on the main highways, she took a circuitous route.
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having weight of authority; peremptory and dictatorial
moderately warm; lacking in emotional warmth or enthusiasm; halfhearted
by a small amount at a time; in stages; gradually
behaving like slave; subordinate in capacity or function
being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course; going round in a circuit; not direct
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dogmatic
 
 
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a.  E.g. We tried to discourage Doug from being so dogmatic, but never could convince him that his opinions might be wrong.
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stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proven beliefs; inflexible, rigid
extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to prior conditions
improperly forward or bold; rude
detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad
impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses
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enumerate
 
 
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v.  E.g. Huck hung his head in shame as Miss Watson began to enumerate his many flaws.
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list each one; mention one by one
cause to go gently and smoothly through air or over water
resolve or settle differences by working with all conflicting parties
free of; rid; remove all of one's clothing
cut or clip hair; strip of something; remove by cutting or clipping
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impetuous
 
 
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a.  E.g. I don't believe that "Leap before you look" is the motto suggested by one particularly impetuous young man.
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not essential; coming from outside
marked by sudden and violent force; hasty; impulsive and passionate
slow and laborious because of weight; labored and dull
impressive from inherent grandeur; large and impressive, in size, scope or extent
trivial; of slight worth or importance; frivolous or idle
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jaunty
 
 
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a.  E.g. In An American in Paris, Gene Kelly sang and danced his way through "Singing in the Rain" in a properly jaunty style.
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accidental; by chance; coming or occurring without any cause
abundant; graciously generous; giving freely and generously
gay in manner, appearance, or action; easy and carefree
obscure; profound; difficult to understand.
free of guilt; not subject to blame; completely acceptable
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monotony
 
 
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n.  E.g. What could be more deadly dull than the monotony of punching numbers into a computer hour after hour?
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uniformity or lack of variation; continual increase, or continual decrease; tedium as a result of repetition
prayer for help; calling upon as reference or support
pen name; fictitious name used when someone performs a particular social role
being in debt; unpaid, overdue debt or an unfulfilled obligation
formal investigation, often held before a jury; judicial inquiry
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parody
 
 
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n.  E.g. The show Forbidden Broadway presents a parody spoofing the year's new productions playing on Broadway.
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person with power to decide a dispute; judge
work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony; make fun of
representative or perfect example of a class or type; brief summary, as of a book or article
state of reduced or suspended sensibility; daze; lack of awareness
offensive or insulting treatment
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reprobate
 
 
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n.  E.g. I cannot understand why he has so many admirers if he is the reprobate you say he is.
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person hardened in sin; person without moral scruples
flowing into; mass arrival or incoming
questioner, especially who is excessively rigorous or harsh; investigator
direct financial aid by government
state of extreme confusion and disorder; very noisy place
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sparse
 
 
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a.  E.g. No matter how carefully Albert combed his hair to make it look as full as possible, it still looked sparse.
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vigorously active; active, as in leaping or running
capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action
occurring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals; not thick or dense
extremely disturbed from emotion
related to unobstructed and comprehensive view; with a wide view
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whimsical
 
 
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a.  E.g. The hero is a playful, whimsical man who takes a notion to dress up as a woman so that he can look after his children, who are in the custody of his ex-wife.
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unpopulated; providing no shelter or sustenance; devoid of inhabitants
skillful and adept under pressing conditions
having been delayed; done or sent too late
determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; capricious
unaware, without noticing; unmindful or thoughtless
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