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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ascetic
 
 
(1)
a.  E.g. The wealthy, self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders.
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decomposed and foul-smelling; rotten; decayed
marked by or having equity; just and impartial
brief; effectively cut short; marked by use of few words
extremely careful and diligent work or effort; taking of pains
leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial; austere
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baroque
 
 
(2)
a.  E.g. Accustomed to the severe lines of contemporary buildings, the architecture students found the flamboyance of baroque architecture amusing.
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relating to drama and acting; dramatic, theatrical
cheerfully confident; optimistic; of healthy reddish color; ruddy
untimely; poorly chosen; inappropriate or ill-timed
complex or bizarre, especially in ornamentation; irregular in shape
muddy; having sediment disturbed; heavy, dark, or dense, as smoke or fog
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collaborate
 
 
(3)
v.  E.g. The easy way to collaborate is to pay attention to the small things in life.
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rub or wipe out; make indistinct as if by rubbing
cry out suddenly, as from surprise or emotion
paycosts of; undertake payment of; make compensation to or for
wound seriously; cause permanent loss of function of limb or part of body
work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort
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descry
 
 
(4)
v.  E.g. In the distance, we could barely descry the enemy vessels.
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catch sight of; discover by careful observation or scrutiny
offer sudden or harsh resistance; turn down or shut out; repel or drive back
handle someone or something in a rough way; cause serious physical wounds
draw out; bring forth or to light; generate or provoke as response or answer
speak evil of; bad-mouth; defame
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ewe
 
 
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n.  E.g. An ewe has been missing from the flock of sheep.
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unfortunate occurrence; mishap; bad luck
chronological record of the events of successive years
ill-tempered person full of stubborn ideas or opinions
female sheep, especially when full grown
natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship; relationship by marriage
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homogeneous
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. Because the student body at Elite Prep was so homogeneous, Sara decided to send daughter to another school that offered greater cultural diversity.
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of the same or similar nature or kind
winding; bending in and out; not morally honest
weeping or inclined to weep; tearful; showing sorrow
unpopulated; providing no shelter or sustenance; devoid of inhabitants
harmful; tending to injure or impair; abusive; insulting
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indeterminate
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. That interest rates shall rise appears certain; when they will do so, however, remains indeterminate.
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marked by energy and vigor; manly; able to copulate, as for male
forced; artificially formal; obviously planned or calculated; not natural
uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
wildly disordered; excessive enthusiasm or excitement; insane
being or existing everywhere; omnipresent
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omnipotent
 
 
(8)
a.  E.g. The monarch regarded himself as omnipotent and responsible to no one for his acts.
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elaborately or excessively ornamented
exactly and carefully conducted; by extreme care and great effort; cautious
leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; changeable; unsettled
all-powerful; having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force
aimless; haphazard; at random; not connected with subject
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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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into separate parts or pieces; apart
flowing, as writing letters joined one to another without raising pen; running
rubbing away; tending to grind down
full of pores; able to absorb fluids; full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through
not able to be perceived by senses, as touch; vague
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quagmire
 
 
(10)
n.  E.g. Up to her knees in mud, Myra wondered how on earth she was going to extricate herself from this quagmire.
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highly skilled artist, as musician; one who is dazzlingly skilled in his field
reply, especially to answer in a quick, caustic, or witty manner
woman who rules a family, clan, or tribe
soft wet boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself
active resistance; condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor
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submissive
 
 
(11)
a.  E.g. When he refused to permit Elizabeth to marry her poet, Mr. Barrett expected her to be properly submissive; instead, she eloped!.
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yielding; inclined or ready to submit
not interested; indifferent; free of self-interest; impartial
existing only in imagination; feigned; not true or real
comical because of strangeness; crazy; clownish; bizarre
knowing or perceiving; part of mental functions that deals with logic
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voluminous
 
 
(12)
a.  E.g. A caftan is a voluminous garment; most people wearing one look as if they're draped in a small tent.
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elaborately or excessively ornamented
composed of elements from a variety of sources
large in volume or bulk; large in number or quantity, especially of discourse
crude or coarse; unrefined or coarse in nature or manner; common or vulgar
harmful to living things; injurious to health
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