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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abstain
 
 
(1)
v.  E.g. After considering the effect of alcohol on his athletic performance, he decided to abstain from drinking while he trained for the race.
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refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice
foretell or predict; indicate or warn of in advance
inscribe or dedicate; attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin; assign as a quality
be placed in or take the room of; replace; make obsolete; make void or useless by superior power
establish by evidence; make firm or solid; support
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brevity
 
 
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n.  E.g. Brevity is essential when you send a telegram or cablegram; you are charged for every word.
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questioner, especially who is excessively rigorous or harsh; investigator
small exclusive group of friends or associates
quality or state of being brief in duration; concise expression
favoring of relatives or friends because of their relationship rather than their abilities
beginning of something; taking in, as by swallowing; process of receiving within
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comely
 
 
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a.  E.g. I would rather have a poor and comely wife than a rich and homely one.
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unconquerable; incapable of being overcome
pleasing or attractive to the eye; handsome; graceful
not literal, but metaphorical; using figure of speech
tending to call up emotions, memories
very fat; large in body; overweight
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ebb
 
 
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v.  E.g. Sitting on the beach, Mrs. Dalloway watched the tide ebb: the waters receded, drawing away from her as she sat there all alone.
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fall away or back; decline or recede; fall back from the flood stage
discuss repeatedly; attack verbally; work hard upon
assent; agree without protesting
insult to one's character or reputation; pronounce indistinctly; talk about disparagingly or insultingly
make uneasy or anxious; trouble
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euphoria
 
 
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n.  E.g. Delighted with her high scores, sure that the university would accept her, Allison was filled with euphoria.
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poet, especially lyric poet
lever used to turn a rudder and steer a boat; drawer in table, chest, or counter
rule or principle prescribing particular action or conduct; authorized direction or order
systematic, usually extensive written discourse on a subject
feeling of great happiness and well-being, sometimes exaggerated
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grimace
 
 
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n.  E.g. Even though he remained silent, his grimace indicated his displeasure.
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solid and well-developed muscles, especially of the arms and legs
natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection
work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony; make fun of
vain man; one who want to get admiration by dress; man excessively concerned with his clothes and appearance
facial distortion to show feeling such as pain, disgust
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limerick
 
 
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n.  E.g. At this point, I would suggest that the limerick, based on a true story, is the more appropriate poetic form.
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mass for dead; song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as memorial
suspended action; temporary cessation or suspension
language used by a special group; technical terminology; nonsensical or meaningless talk
standstill resulting from opposition of two forces or factions; stalemate
humorous short verse; nonsense song or verse
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monotony
 
 
(8)
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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bearing of fruit; fulfillment; realization
uniformity or lack of variation; continual increase, or continual decrease; tedium as a result of repetition
usually short interval of rest or relief; delay in punishment
state of reduced or suspended sensibility; daze; lack of awareness
intense interest; eagerness to accomplish some object
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practicable
 
 
(9)
a.  E.g. The board of directors decided that the plan was practicable and agreed to undertake the project.
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passionate; hot or scorching; hurried or rapid
careful about money; economical
deserving high respect; impressive by reason of age; profoundly honored
feasible; capable of being effected, done, or put into practice
partly transparent; transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen
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protege
 
 
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n.  E.g. Jason, as his father's protege, is destined to probe the mysteries of the hometown church.
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concave cut into a surface or edge; small hollow or depression
positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath
faithless lover; fickle lover; flirt, usually applies only to men
rapid growth; spread; increase in size by reproduction
person guided and protected by a more prominent person
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spry
 
 
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a.  E.g. She was eighty years old, yet still spry and alert.
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reddish; elaborately or excessively ornamented
vigorously active; active, as in leaping or running
overly simple; simplifying something so that its complexity is lost or important details are overlooked
full of pores; able to absorb fluids; full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through
curving outward; having surface that bulges outward, as the exterior of sphere
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volley
 
 
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n.  E.g. The troop fired a volley of bullets at the enemy, but they could not be sure how many hit their target.
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medieval chemistry; magical or mysterious power or process of transforming
raised platform for guests of honor
one derived from another; offspring or descendant; result of creative effort, as product
flight of missiles; round of gunshots; tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
homeless person, especially orphaned child; abandoned young animal
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