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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assail
 
 
(1)
v.  E.g. These days nightmares assail him regularly.
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surround an enemy; enclose or entrap; beat by cleverness and wit
expel; eject from a position or place; force out
assault; attack with or as if with violent blows
cut off part of body, especially by surgery; prune
punish, as by beating; criticize severely; rebuke
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braggart
 
 
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n.  E.g. Modest by nature, she was no braggart, preferring to let her accomplishments speak for themselves.
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crack or crevice; a split or indentation between two parts, as of the chin
patience; restraint of passions; act of forbearing or waiting
combining parts into a coherent whole; putting of two or more things togethe
usually short interval of rest or relief; delay in punishment
boaster; one given to loud, empty boasting; very talkative person
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correlation
 
 
(3)
n.  E.g. He sought to determine the correlation that existed between ability in algebra and ability to interpret reading exercises.
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effort; expenditure of much physical work
mutual relationship; interdependence or interconnection relationship
expression of warm approval; praise
large volume; large and scholarly book
creative work, as literary or musical composition
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dexterous
 
 
(4)
a.  E.g. The magician was so dexterous that we could not follow him as he performed his tricks.
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leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; changeable; unsettled
abundant; graciously generous; giving freely and generously
unlikely; difficult to believe; dubious
skillful in the use of the hands; having mental skill
extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to prior conditions
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feckless
 
 
(5)
a.  E.g. Anja took on the responsibility of caring for her aged mother, realizing that her feckless sister was not up to the task.
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without skill, ineffective; worthless; lacking purpose
elaborately or excessively ornamented
wildly disordered; excessive enthusiasm or excitement; insane
very thin especially from disease or hunger
having no adverse effect; harmless
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implacable
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. Madame Defarge was the implacable enemy of the Evremonde family.
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without feeling; revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
marked by sudden and violent force; hasty; impulsive and passionate
cheating; deceitful; planning or using fraud; given to practice of fraud
obvious and dull; commonplace; lacking originality
incapable of being pacified; not to be relieved;
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invalidate
 
 
(7)
v.  E.g. The relatives who received little or nothing sought to invalidate the will by claiming that the deceased had not been in his right mind when he had signed the document.
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luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
assault; attack with or as if with violent blows
make invalid; nullify; destroy
free, as from difficulties or perplexities; cause to be emitted or evolved
annoy; disturb, especially by minor irritations; be a mystery or bewildering to
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olfactory
 
 
(8)
a.  E.g. A wine taster must have a discriminating palate and a keen olfactory sense, for a good wine appeals both to the taste buds and to the nose.
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not to be taken away; nontransferable
relating to, or contributing to sense of smell
occurring at irregular intervals; having no pattern or order in time
careful about money; economical
apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
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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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momentary; temporary; staying for short time
containing or derived from error; mistaken
full of pores; able to absorb fluids; full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through
bodily; of a material nature; tangible
capable of igniting and burning; easily aroused or excited
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repeal
 
 
(10)
v.  E.g. What would the effect on our society be if we repeal the laws against the possession and sale of narcotics?
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revoke or annul, especially by official or formal act
destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
sharpen, as knife; make more keen; stimulate
give an imitation that ridicules; imitate mockingly or humorously
block legislation by making long speeches
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terminus
 
 
(11)
n.  E.g. After we reached the railroad terminus, we continued our journey into the wilderness on saddle horses.
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one that expounds or interprets; one that speaks for, represents, or advocates
last stop of railroad; final point or end; boundary or border
rapid growth; spread; increase in size by reproduction
act of conveying; tools of conveying, especially vehicle for transportation
short, simple story teaching moral or religious lesson
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writhe
 
 
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v.  E.g. In Dances with Snakes, the snake dancer wriggled sinuously and made her python writhe around her torso.
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make young again; restore to youthful vigor or appearance
express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept
move in twisting or contorted motion; contort in pain
incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble
settle accounts to pay them off; clear up
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