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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agitate
 
 
(1)
v.  E.g. Since President has now announced that Emergency, the only demand that the lawyers can now agitate is the restoration of the old Supreme Court.
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guarantee as safe; secure; promise or agree condescendingly, as a special favor; permit
plead; make earnest request of; ask for earnestly
emphasize; stress; pronounce with a stress or accent; mark with an accent
cause to move with violence or sudden force; upset; disturb
make muddy; mix confusedly; think, act, or proceed in confused or aimless manner
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brawn
 
 
(2)
n.  E.g. People think in farming community you don't need a brain, only brawn.
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popular fashion; current state or style of general acceptance and use
repetitive or incantatory recital; long and tedious address
symbol of disgrace; small mark, as scar or birthmark; mark made with red-hot iron
solid and well-developed muscles, especially of the arms and legs
battle, assault, or quarrel with violence; wear away by rubbing
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convoluted
 
 
(3)
a.  E.g. His argument was so convoluted that few of us could follow it intelligently.
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coiled around; highly involved; intricate
excessively or elaborately decorated; flashy, showy, or florid in style or manner
warm and extremely humid; moist; damp; moldy
knowing or perceiving; part of mental functions that deals with logic
in disrepair, run down; of very poor quality or condition
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dupe
 
 
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n.  E.g. While the gullible Watson often was made a dupe by unscrupulous parties, Sherlock Holmes was far more difficult to fool.
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natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection
color; appearance; particular gradation of color
easily deceived person; duplicate of photographic image
expectation of misfortune; feeling of evil to come; unfavorable omen
study of origin and nature of ideas
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fissure
 
 
(5)
n.  E.g. The mountain climbers secured footholds in the tiny fissure in the rock.
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long narrow opening ; long narrow depression in surface
trace; remains; indication that something has been happened
beautiful writing; excellent penmanship
cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
viewer who enjoys seeing sex acts or sex organs of others
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garish
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. She wore a rhinestone necklace with an excessively garish gold lame dress.
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over-bright in color; tastelessly showy
very small; immeasurably or incalculably minute
inactive; lacking power to move; unable to move or act
young and inexperienced; having just acquired its flight feathers
bottomless; very profound; limitless; very bad
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insurmountable
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. Faced by almost insurmountable obstacles, the members of the underground maintained their courage and will to resist.
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invulnerable; able to withstand attack
warm and extremely humid; moist; damp; moldy
overwhelming; incapable of being passed over or overcome
giving a false appearance of frankness; not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating
indisputable; not open to question
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outlandish
 
 
(8)
a.  E.g. The eccentric professor who engages in markedly outlandish behavior is a stock figure in novels with an academic setting.
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in early stage of development; of an organism prior to birth; related to embryo
speechless; without or deprived of the use of speech or words
not to be taken away; nontransferable
using exactly the same words; corresponding word for word
unconventional; strikingly unfamiliar; located far from civilized areas
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platitude
 
 
(9)
n.  E.g. In giving advice to his son, old Polonius expressed himself only in same platitude; every word out of his mouth was a commonplace.
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substance used as coloring; dry coloring matter
one who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people; bootlicker; yes man
dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality
something that holds back or causes problems with something else; obstacle
strictness or severity, as in temperament, action, or judgment; something hard to endure
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renovate
 
 
(10)
v.  E.g. They claim that they can renovate worn shoes so that they look like new ones.
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disprove; prove to be false or incorrect
restore to good condition; renew
avoid cleverly; escape perception of
behave arrogantly or pompously; walk with swaying motion
severely criticize; reprimand; reprove sharply
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sporadic
 
 
(11)
a.  E.g. Although you can still hear sporadic outbursts of laughter and singing outside, the big Halloween parade has passed; the party's over till next year.
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dull, unimaginative, and commonplace; old-fashioned; stuffy
occurring at irregular intervals; having no pattern or order in time
causing damage or harm; injurious
totally in love; marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
improperly forward or bold; rude
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ventriloquist
 
 
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n.  E.g. This ventriloquist does an act in which she has a conversation with a wooden dummy.
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place where one can live in seclusion; home of one isolated from society for religious reasons
brutal deed; atrocious condition, quality, or behavior; monstrousness
lack of sophistication, experience, judgment or worldliness; simplicity; artlessness; gullibility
face or facial features; appearance, especially the expression of the face
one who can make his voice seem to come from another person or thing
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