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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altruistic
 
 
(1)
a.  E.g. In providing tutorial assistance and college scholarships for hundreds of economically disadvantaged youths, Eugene Lang performed a truly altruistic deed.
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moved by sexual love; loving
deserving of praise; worthy of high praise
dark; dusky; naturally having skin of a dark color
extremely steep; descending rapidly, or rushing onward
unselfishly generous; concerned for others
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beguile
 
 
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v.  E.g. With flattery and big talk of easy money, the con men beguile Kyle into betting his allowance on the shell game.
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include; consist of; be composed of
turn into vapor, steam, gas, or fog; decrease rapidly and disappear
cancel out; make ineffective or invalid; deny
cause to go gently and smoothly through air or over water
mislead; delude; deceive by guile
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chaff
 
 
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n.  E.g. When you separate the wheat from the chaff, be sure you keep the wheat.
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stubborn intolerance; excessive zeal or warmth in favor of a party, sect, or opinion
condition of balance among various forces; inactivity resulting from static balance
short trip or excursion, usually for pleasure; short journey
trivial or worthless matter; thin dry bracts or scales, especially
woman who rules a family, clan, or tribe; highly respected woman who is a mother
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demure
 
 
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a.  E.g. She was demure and reserved, a nice modest girl whom any young man would be proud to take home to his mother.
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influential in original way; providing basis for further development; creative
modest and reserved in manner or behavior
indicated or understood without expressed directly; not speaking; silent
skillful and adept under pressing conditions
flexible; moving and bending with ease
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ethereal
 
 
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a.  E.g. In Shakespeare's The Tempest, the spirit Ariel is an ethereal creature, too airy and unearthly for our mortal world.
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careful about money; economical
abundant; rich and splendid; fertile
lacking in spirit or energy to exert effort
light as air; heavenly; unusually refined
dull, unimaginative, and commonplace; old-fashioned; stuffy
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forlorn
 
 
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a.  E.g. Deserted by her big sisters and her friends, the forlorn child sat sadly on the steps awaiting their return.
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below threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response
difficult to please; having complicated requirements; excessively particular demanding about details
young and inexperienced; having just acquired its flight feathers
sad and lonely; wretched; abandoned or left behind
abrupt and curt in manner or speech; rudely abrupt, unfriendly
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incontrovertible
 
 
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a.  E.g. Unless you find the evidence against my client absolutely incontrovertible, you must declare her not guilty of this charge.
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so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded
not fitting; lacking in harmony or compatibility
extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to prior conditions
not moving or flowing; lacking vitality or briskness; stale; dull
indisputable; not open to question
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mediate
 
 
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v.  E.g. King Solomon was asked to mediate a dispute between two women, each of whom claimed to be the mother of the same child.
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hesitate as a result of conscience or principle
express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept
resolve or settle differences by working with all conflicting parties
rub or wipe out; make indistinct as if by rubbing
beat or pound with fists; hit or strike heavily and repeatedly
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placate
 
 
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v.  E.g. The store manager tried to placate the angry customer, offering to replace the damaged merchandise or to give back her money right away.
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imprison; put into jail; shut up or enclose
appease or pacify; bring peace to
degrade; debase, as in dignity or social standing
lose animation; be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor
work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort
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pseudonym
 
 
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n.  E.g. Samuel Clemens' pseudonym was Mark Twain.
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religious devotion and reverence to God; devout act, thought, or statement; godliness
fitness; correct conduct; quality of being proper; appropriateness
extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance
general sense of depression or unease; vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at beginning of illness
pen name; fictitious name used when someone performs a particular social role
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solicit
 
 
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v.  E.g. Knowing she needed to have a solid majority for the budget to pass, the mayor telephoned all the members of the city council to solicit their votes.
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proceed slowly; waste time
request earnestly; seek to obtain by persuasion or formal application
contradict; give a false impression
delay; leave slowly and hesitantly; wait
give authorization or approval to something; penalize a state, especially for violating international law
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traverse
 
 
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v.  E.g. When you traverse this field alone, be careful of the bull.
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speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly; talk artlessly and childishly
show or demonstrate clearly; overcome; conquer
go through or across, often under difficult conditions
settle down; sink to a lower level or form depression; wear off or die down
injure or hurt; become worse; affect negatively
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