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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amenities
 
 
(1)
n.  E.g. In addition to the customary amenities for the business traveler-fax machines, modems, a health club-the hotel offers the services of a butler versed in the social courtesies.
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direct, quick route; direct, straight course
convenient features; courtesies
representative or perfect example of a class or type; brief summary, as of a book or article
sudden feeling of sickness or faintness; sudden attack of illness
annual payment of allowance or income; periodical payment, amounting to a fixed sum in each year
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catharsis
 
 
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n.  E.g. Aristotle maintained that tragedy created a catharsis by purging the soul of base concepts.
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last stop of railroad; final point or end; boundary or border
filthy and wretched condition or quality; dirty or neglected state
large cage, building, or enclosure in which birds are reared or kept
remedy; compensation; act of correcting error or fault
purging or cleansing of any passage of body
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compliant
 
 
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a.  E.g. Because Joel usually gave in and went along with whatever his friends desired, his mother worried that he might be too compliant.
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yielding to request or desire; ready to accommodate; disposed or willing to comply
inactive; lacking power to move; unable to move or act
burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot
related to spring; suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
stormy; showing no mercy; physically severe
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dissemble
 
 
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v.  E.g. Even though John tried to dissemble his motive for taking modern dance, we all knew he was there not to dance but to meet girls.
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express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept
talk rapidly, unintelligibly, or idly
disguise or conceal behind a false appearance; make a false show of
incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble
shake with slight, rapid, tremulous movement
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equanimity
 
 
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n.  E.g. Even the inevitable strains of caring for an ailing mother did not disturb Bea's equanimity.
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any of various large, thick-skinned, hoofed mammals, as elephant
calmness of temperament; steadiness of mind under stress.
process, condition, or period of deterioration or decline; falling off or away; decay
doctor who specializes in diagnosis and treatment of foot ailments
artificial obstruction; heavy curtain of artillery fire; rapid, concentrated discharge of missiles
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impair
 
 
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v.  E.g. Drinking alcohol can impair your ability to drive safely; if you're going to drink, don't drive.
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wound seriously; cause permanent loss of function of limb or part of body
rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder; take as spoils
kindle; cause to start burning; set fire to
injure or hurt; become worse; affect negatively
agree; give consent, often at insistence of another; concede
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incidental
 
 
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a.  E.g. The scholarship covered his major expenses at college and some of his incidental expenses as well.
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standing out above other things; high in rank, office, or worth
in or into a high place; high or higher up
rubbing away; tending to grind down
happening, as occasional event, without regularity; coming without design
short-lived; enduring a very short time
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menagerie
 
 
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n.  E.g. Whenever the children run wild around the house, Mom shouts, "Calm down! I'm not running a menagerie!"
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solid and well-developed muscles, especially of the arms and legs
abnormal; markedly different from an accepted norm
cause to lean, slant, or slope; deviate from the horizontal or vertical
collection of live wild animals on exhibition; enclosure in which wild animals are kept
bravery; force; power to attack or to resist attack
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preclude
 
 
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v.  E.g. The fact that the band was already booked to play in Hollywood on New Year's Eve would preclude their accepting the New Year's Eve gig in London.
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state without proof; assert to be true
be placed in or take the room of; replace; make obsolete; make void or useless by superior power
lose animation; be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor
make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent; eliminate
severely criticize; reprimand; reprove sharply
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salient
 
 
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a.  E.g. One of the salient features of that newspaper is its excellent editorial page.
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relating to the sky or the heavens; supremely good; god or angel
prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs
increasing by successive addition
appetizing to taste or smell; salty or Non-Sweet; pleasing, attractive, or agreeable
high, tall, having great height; idealistic, implying over-optimism
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sultry
 
 
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a.  E.g. He could not adjust himself to the sultry climate of the tropics.
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burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot
occurring or taking place in person's mind rather than external world; unreal
repeated too often; over familiar through overuse
having no adverse effect; harmless
related to unobstructed and comprehensive view; with a wide view
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vivacious
 
 
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a.  E.g. Two-time Emmy nominee, she is most well-known as the vivacious beauty who dishes the latest in celebrity news, style and entertainment.
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not fitting; lacking in harmony or compatibility
holding; having quality, power, or capacity of retaining, as to retain knowledge with ease
separated at joints; out of joint; lacking order or coherence
brief or compact; by clear, precise expression in few words
animated; lively; vigorous and active
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