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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accrue
 
 
(1)
v.  E.g. The Premier League awards three points for a win and one for a draw, so in a 38-game season the maximum a team can accrue is 114 points.
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increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth; accumulate over time
extinguish; put down forcibly; suppress; pacify or quiet
request earnestly; seek to obtain by persuasion or formal application
inscribe or dedicate; attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin; assign as a quality
twist out of proper or natural relation of parts; misshape; misrepresent
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baffle
 
 
(2)
v.  E.g. The new code will baffle the enemy agents.
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kindle; cause to start burning; set fire to
blow in heavy gusts; speak in a loudly arrogant or bullying manner
frustrate as by confusing or perplexing; impede force or movement of
postpone or delay needlessly; put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness
assent; agree without protesting
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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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patience; restraint of passions; act of forbearing or waiting
subtle but base deception; trickery; cleverness or skill; ingenuity
substance believed to cure all ills
person who loves mankind in general; very generous person or institution
hairstyle; head-dress; manner of arranging or dressing hair
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dilapidated
 
 
(4)
a.  E.g. Rather than get discouraged, the architect saw great potential in the dilapidated house.
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unlikely; difficult to believe; dubious
in disrepair, run down; of very poor quality or condition
knowing or perceiving; part of mental functions that deals with logic
stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proven beliefs; inflexible, rigid
low in spirits; depressed; directed downward
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fissure
 
 
(5)
n.  E.g. The mountain climbers secured footholds in the tiny fissure in the rock.
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long narrow opening ; long narrow depression in surface
rate of occurrence; particular occurrence
reparation; getting something back again; restoring something to its original state
bringing or coming to end; ceasing
mental keenness; quickness of perception
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gnarled
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. The gnarled oak tree had been a landmark for years and was mentioned in several deeds.
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sweet sounding; pleasing to ear; melodious
in low spirits from loss of hope or courage
indecent; obscene; humorously coarse
twisted; knotty; made rough by age or hard work
relating to the sky or the heavens; supremely good; god or angel
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jargon
 
 
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n.  E.g. The computer salesmen at the store used a jargon of their own that we simply couldn't follow.
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language used by a special group; technical terminology; nonsensical or meaningless talk
metal striker that hangs inside bell and makes sound by hitting side; someone who applauds
science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in
tiny piece of anything; very small particle
title; chapter heading; text under illustration
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opportune
 
 
(8)
a.  E.g. Sally looked at her father struggling to balance his checkbook; clearly this would not be an opportune moment to ask him for a raise in her allowance.
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timely; just in time; suited or right for a particular purpose
demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; binding; rigid
very showy or ornamented, especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner
displaying or by strong enthusiasm or devotion; passionate
making severe demands; rigorous; requiring great care, effort, or attention
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procrastinate
 
 
(9)
v.  E.g. Looking at four years of receipts he still had to sort through, Bob was truly sorry to procrastinate for so long and not finished filing his taxes long ago.
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cause to move with violence or sudden force; upset; disturb
postpone or delay needlessly; put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness
blow in heavy gusts; speak in a loudly arrogant or bullying manner
cut into small parts; withdraw or exclude from membership, as of a society or body
defraud or cheat; frustrate or disappoint; evade or escape from
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salutary
 
 
(10)
a.  E.g. The punishment had a salutary effect on the boy, as he became a model student.
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having many talents; capable of working in many fields
tending to improve; beneficial; favorable to health
good-natured and likable; lovable; warmly friendly
not open to question; obviously true; beyond dispute or doubt
turned or twisted toward one side; at an angle
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tenuous
 
 
(11)
a.  E.g. The allegiance of our allies is held by rather tenuous ties; we all should see it's in dangerous.
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by a small amount at a time; in stages; gradually
detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad
long and thin; slender; having little substance
brief and compact; expressing much in few words
being or existing everywhere; omnipresent
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verdant
 
 
(12)
a.  E.g. Monet's paintings of the verdant meadows were symphonies in green.
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dark and gloomy; thick with fog; vague
totally in love; marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
impossible to remove, erase, or wash away; permanent
green; full of juice in vegetation
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