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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ambiguous
 
 
(1)
a.  E.g. His ambiguous instructions misled us; we did not know which road to take.
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portending evil; harmful in intent or effect.
concerning each of two or more persons or things; exchangeable; interacting
passionate; hot or scorching; hurried or rapid
unclear or doubtful in meaning
increasing by successive addition
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asunder
 
 
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ad.  E.g. A fierce quarrel split the partnership asunder: the two partners finally sundered their connections because their points of view were poles apart.
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festive; occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
widespread; widely or commonly occurring, existing, accepted
yielding to request or desire; ready to accommodate; disposed or willing to comply;
into separate parts or pieces; apart
abrupt and curt in manner or speech; rudely abrupt, unfriendly
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decomposition
 
 
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n.  E.g. Despite the body's advanced state of decomposition, the police were able to identify the murdered man.
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mentally quick; moving quickly and lightly
heavy substance used to add stability or weight
song for two or three unaccompanied voices; short poem, often about love, suitable for being set to music
breakdown or decay of organic materials; act or result of decomposing
ill-tempered person full of stubborn ideas or opinions
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efface
 
 
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v.  E.g. He handled the coin so many times to efface its date.
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lay responsibility or blame for, often unjustly
rub or wipe out; make indistinct as if by rubbing
dig out of ground; remove from grave
make false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
offer sudden or harsh resistance; turn down or shut out; repel or drive back
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florid
 
 
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a.  E.g. If you go to beach and get a sunburn, your complexion will look florid.
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in a position that is turned toward one side; away from correct course
able to see differences; showing careful judgment or fine taste
relating to essential nature of a thing; inherent; built-in
reddish; elaborately or excessively ornamented
put forth or held out as real, actual, or intended; proper or intended to be shown
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impede
 
 
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v.  E.g. A series of accidents impede the launching of the space shuttle.
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fill with horror and loathing; horrify; hate
destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
cancel; put an end to; destroy completely
degrade; debase, as in dignity or social standing
hinder; charge with improper conduct; challenge validity of; try to discredit
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languish
 
 
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v.  E.g. Left at Miss Minchin's school for girls while her father went off to war, Sarah Crewe refused to languish; instead, she hid her grief and actively befriended her less fortunate classmates.
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charge with crime; challenge or discredit the credibility of
quick forward dive or reach; thrust
fill or make complete again; add a new stock or supply to
lose animation; be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor
be responsible for; commit; do execute or perform, generally in bad sense
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ogle
 
 
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v.  E.g. At the coffee house, Walter was too shy to ogle the pretty girls openly; instead, he peeked out at them from behind a rubber plant.
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put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources
avoid deliberately; keep away from
look at amorously; cast glances as in fondness or to attract notice
drive out evil spirits by or as if by incantation, command, or prayer
avoid cleverly; escape perception of
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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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large or high waterfall; eye abnormality
concave cut into a surface or edge; small hollow or depression
talking to oneself; act of a character speaking to himself so as to reveal his thoughts to audience
work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony; make fun of
deep opening in the earth surface
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replenish
 
 
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v.  E.g. Before she could take another backpacking trip, Carla had to replenish her stock of freeze-dried foods.
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stare foolishly; look in open-mouthed awe
fill or make complete again; add a new stock or supply to
make uneasy or anxious; trouble
guess; infer something without sufficiently conclusive evidence
contradict; give a false impression
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stigma
 
 
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n.  E.g. I do not attach any stigma to the fact that you were accused of this crime; the fact that you were acquitted clears you completely.
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gold and silver in the form of bars
symbol of disgrace; small mark, as scar or birthmark; mark made with red-hot iron
equality in status or amount; similarity or close
one derived from another; offspring or descendant; result of creative effort, as product
board on which painter mixes pigments
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wry
 
 
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a.  E.g. We enjoy Dorothy Parker's verse for its wry wit.
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turned to one side; twisted; marked by humorous twist, often with a touch of irony
disagreeable and contrary in dispositionn; mean or coarse
curving outward; having surface that bulges outward, as the exterior of sphere
widespread; widely or commonly occurring, existing, accepted
very small; tiny; lowercase letter
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