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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abut
 
 
(1)
v.  E.g. Where our estates abut, we must build a fence.
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border upon; adjoin; touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent
guess; infer something without sufficiently conclusive evidence
cry out suddenly, as from surprise or emotion
approach; tend to meet; come together
shift to clockwise direction; turn sharply; change direction abruptly
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avow
 
 
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v.  E.g. Lana began to avow that she never meant to steal Debbie's boyfriend.
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force to leave; remove from office
declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
severely criticize; reprimand; reprove sharply
reduce or eliminate gradually, with knife; cut small bits off
delay; leave slowly and hesitantly; wait
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cessation
 
 
(3)
n.  E.g. The airline's employees threatened a cessation of all work if management failed to meet their demands.
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one who rides a horse or performs on horseback
peak; tall pointed formation, such as mountain peak
bringing or coming to end; ceasing
mentally quick; moving quickly and lightly
anxiety; extreme emotional disturbance
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disquiet
 
 
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v.  E.g. Holmes's absence for a day, slightly caused to disquiet Watson; after a week with no word, however, Watson's uneasiness about his missing friend had grown into a deep fear for his safety.
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wear away or irritate by rubbing; make sore by rubbing; annoy; vex
talk rapidly, unintelligibly, or idly
make uneasy or anxious; trouble
complain or grumble; seek or shoot grouse
lay responsibility or blame for, often unjustly
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figurative
 
 
(5)
a.  E.g. The only difference between the verbs loan and lend is that loan can’t be used in figurative senses.
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reddish; elaborately or excessively ornamented
not literal, but metaphorical; using figure of speech
obedient; ready and willing to be taught; easily managed or handled
bold; incapable of being discouraged; fearless
set apart; isolated in restricted sense, so remote from other bodies
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garrulous
 
 
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a.  E.g. My Uncle Henry can outtalk any three people I know. He is the most garrulous person in Cayuga County.
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done routinely and with little interest or care; acting with indifference; showing little interest or care
talking much and repetition of unimportant or trivial details
restrained; self-controlled; moderate in degree or quality
causing damage or harm; injurious
pulled or drawn tight; kept in trim shape; neat and tidy
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invalidate
 
 
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v.  E.g. The relatives who received little or nothing sought to invalidate the will by claiming that the deceased had not been in his right mind when he had signed the document.
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treat gently; cook in water just below boiling point
make invalid; nullify; destroy
stir up fire; feed plentifully; supply a furnace with fuel
discuss lightly or glibly; exchange words heatedly
make uneasy or anxious; trouble
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mire
 
 
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v.  E.g. The mud could mire their rear wheels.
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annoy; disturb, especially by minor irritations; be a mystery or bewildering to
declare to be true; affirm
represent in a picture or sculpture; portray in words; describe
cause to sink or become stuck in; hinder, entrap, or entangle
gradually deprive infants of mother's milk; detach affections of
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pathos
 
 
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n.  E.g. The quiet tone of pathos that ran through the novel never degenerated into the maudlin or the overly sentimental.
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last stop of railroad; final point or end; boundary or border
suspended action; temporary cessation or suspension
distance around something; circumference; size; bulk
inclination; natural tendency; readiness; facility of learning
tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings
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quagmire
 
 
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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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soft wet boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself
small, showy ornament of little value; child's plaything or toy
great flood; heavy downpour; any overflowing of water
small, smooth, flat surface, as on a bone or tooth; side; a smooth surface
case for arrows; collection or store, as arsenal; quick shaking
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spatial
 
 
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a.  E.g. NASA is engaged in an ongoing program of spatial exploration.
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animated; lively; vigorous and active
relating to space; existing in or connected with space
acceptable; sufficiently agreeable in flavor to be eaten
weakened, worn out, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use
uncontrollably forceful or fast; done with head leading; headfirst
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vernal
 
 
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a.  E.g. Bea basked in the balmy vernal breezes, happy that winter was coming to an end.
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shining; emitting light, especially emitting self-generated light
sad and lonely; wretched; abandoned or left behind
insignificant; lacking in importance or worth; worthless
related to spring; suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
opposition to progress or liberalism; extremely conservative
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