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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aggregate
 
 
(1)
v.  E.g. Before the Wall Street scandals, dealers managed to aggregate great wealth in short periods of time.
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fall from clouds; hurl or throw violently; fall vertically, sharply, or headlong
be placed in or take the room of; replace; make obsolete; make void or useless by superior power
declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
quick forward dive or reach; thrust
gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
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barrage
 
 
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n.  E.g. The company was forced to retreat through the barrage of heavy cannons.
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expression of warm approval; praise
opening; diameter of such an opening; hole
anxiety; extreme emotional disturbance
systematic, usually extensive written discourse on a subject
artificial obstruction; heavy curtain of artillery fire; rapid, concentrated discharge of missiles
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cloister
 
 
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n.  E.g. The nuns lived a secluded life in the cloister.
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place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion; secluded, quiet place
gift for finding valuable or desirable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck
large tent, often with open sides, used chiefly for outdoor entertainment; roof like structure
capacity of guardian; guardianship; capacity or activity of tutor; instruction or teaching
mass for dead; song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as memorial
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dogmatic
 
 
(4)
a.  E.g. We tried to discourage Doug from being so dogmatic, but never could convince him that his opinions might be wrong.
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stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proven beliefs; inflexible, rigid
related to unobstructed and comprehensive view; with a wide view
existing or lasting only a short time; short-lived or temporary
fickle; impulsive and unpredictable; apt to change opinions suddenly
relating to drama and acting; dramatic, theatrical
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expansive
 
 
(5)
a.  E.g. He was in an expansive humor, cheerfully urging his guests to join in the Christmas feast.
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outgoing and sociable; broad and extensive; able to increase in size
perceptive; shrewd; having insight
deceptive or tending of deceive; not real
easily approachable; warmly friendly
giving out or shedding light, as sun or fire; reflecting light; having brilliant surface
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implausible
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. Though her alibi seemed implausible, it in fact turned out to be true.
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large destructive fire; burning; large-scale military conflict
not moving or flowing; lacking vitality or briskness; stale; dull
unlikely; difficult to believe; dubious
put forth or held out as real, actual, or intended; proper or intended to be shown
not fitting; lacking in harmony or compatibility
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incompatible
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. The married couple argued incessantly and finally decided to separate because they were incompatible.
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deserving of praise; worthy of high praise
inharmonious; impossible to coexist; not easy to combine harmoniously
having no equal; incomparable
extremely careful and diligent work or effort; taking of pains
relating to marriage or wedding ceremony
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outskirt
 
 
(8)
n.  E.g. Besides it a handicrafts and local fruit process exhibition show also arranged in outskirt of cattle show.
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artificial obstruction; heavy curtain of artillery fire; rapid, concentrated discharge of missiles
cliff; overhanging or extremely steep mass of rock; dangerous position
something that has real or substantial existence; means of support or maintain life
part or region remote from a central district, as of a city or town; fringe; outer border
short, simple story teaching moral or religious lesson
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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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cliff; overhanging or extremely steep mass of rock; dangerous position
freedom from punishment or harm; exemption from injury, suffering, or discomfort
awkward and stupid person; troublemaker, often violent
dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality
name; title; act of naming; act of appealing for aid, sympathy
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pyromania
 
 
(10)
n.  E.g. The detectives searched the area for the pyromania who had set these costly fires.
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introductory statement; introductory paragraph or division of discourse or writing
tiny piece of anything; very small particle
person with insane desire to set things on fire
artificial obstruction; heavy curtain of artillery fire; rapid, concentrated discharge of missiles
equality in status or amount; similarity or close
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tepid
 
 
(11)
a.  E.g. During the summer, I like to take a tepid bath, not a hot one.
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dull, unimaginative, and commonplace; old-fashioned; stuffy
not able to be perceived by senses, as touch; vague
passionate; hot or scorching; hurried or rapid
moderately warm; lacking in emotional warmth or enthusiasm; halfhearted
gigantic; of great comparative size
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uniformity
 
 
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n.  E.g. It demands an approximately equal standard of life for all human beings and probably a certain uniformity of education.
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ability to foresee future happenings
chronological record of the events of successive years
sameness or consistency; freedom from variation or difference
person with prejudiced belief in superiority of own kind
gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter
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