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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speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly; talk artlessly and childishly
cut off part of body, especially by surgery; prune
soil, smear so as to make dirty or stained
appear or take shape, usually in enlarged or distorted form
cause to move with violence or sudden force; upset; disturb
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celerity
 
 
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n.  E.g. Hamlet resented his mother's celerity in remarrying within a month after his father's death.
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swiftness of action or motion; speed
unfortunate occurrence; mishap; bad luck
study of origin and nature of ideas
lever used to turn a rudder and steer a boat; drawer in table, chest, or counter
hugeness in a bad sense; act of extreme evil or wickedness
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coiffure
 
 
(3)
n.  E.g. You can make a statement with your choice of coiffure: in the sixties many African Americans affirmed their racial heritage by wearing their hair in Afros.
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limited quantity; small or moderate amount; any small thing
poet, especially lyric poet
downward slope, as of a hill
hairstyle; head-dress; manner of arranging or dressing hair
short trip or excursion, usually for pleasure; short journey
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discord
 
 
(4)
n.  E.g. Watching Tweedledum battle Tweedledee, Alice wondered what had caused this pointless discord.
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account or history of descent of person or family from ancestor; lineage
dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality
hastily put together defensive barrier; obstacle
laugh in half-suppressed or foolish manner; disrespectful laugh
conflict; lack of agreement among persons, groups, or things
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exacting
 
 
(5)
a.  E.g. Cleaning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was an exacting task, one that demanded extremely meticulous care on the part of the restorers.
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dark and gloomy; thick with fog; vague
aimless; haphazard; at random; not connected with subject
making severe demands; rigorous; requiring great care, effort, or attention
related to unobstructed and comprehensive view; with a wide view
turned or twisted toward one side; at an angle
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glossy
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. I want this photograph printed on glossy paper.
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earthly, as opposed to celestial; pertaining to the land
smooth and shining; reflecting luster from smooth or polished surface; plausible
weakened, worn out, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use
relating to language or linguistics; relating to study of language
disagreeable and contrary in disposition; mean or coarse
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interminable
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. Although his speech lasted for only twenty minutes, it seemed interminable to his bored audience.
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stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proven beliefs; inflexible, rigid
being or seeming to be without an end; endless; tedious; continual
using exactly the same words; corresponding word for word
marked by or given to innovations; introducing a change
related to unobstructed and comprehensive view; with a wide view
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madrigal
 
 
(8)
n.  E.g. His program of folk songs included a famous madrigal which he sang to the accompaniment of a lute.
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science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in
song for two or three unaccompanied voices; short poem, often about love, suitable for being set to music
blessing; invocation of divine blessing; expression of good wishes
anxiety caused by humiliation or injured pride; disappointment
willingness to carry out the wishes of others; great respect
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pare
 
 
(9)
v.  E.g. My hands are sore after I pare hundreds of potatoes for the banquet.
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stockpile; accumulate for future use
remove outer covering or skin of with knife or similar instrument
shake with slight, rapid, tremulous movement
restrain with U-shaped bar for ankles or feet; impede; hamper
charge; accuse formally of a crime
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sanguine
 
 
(10)
a.  E.g. Let us not be too sanguine about the outcome; something could go wrong.
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cheerfully confident; optimistic; of healthy reddish color; ruddy
demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; binding; rigid
free of guilt; not subject to blame; completely acceptable
without skill, ineffective; worthless; lacking purpose
unalterable; irreversible; impossible to retract or revoke
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shyster
 
 
(11)
n.  E.g. He is horrified to learn that his newly-discovered half brother is nothing but a cheap shyster.
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deep gully; a dry gulch; brook or creek; watercourse
extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
supplement or appendix, especially to a will
faithless lover; fickle lover; flirt, usually applies only to men
lawyer using questionable methods; unethical lawyer or politician
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translucent
 
 
(12)
a.  E.g. We could not recognize the people in the next room because of the translucent curtains that separated us.
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free of artificiality; natural; open and honest
with reference or regard; in respect
unshakably calm; placid; incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted
partly transparent; transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen
harmful to living things; injurious to health
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