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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assent
 
 
(1)
v.  E.g. It gives me great pleasure to assent to your request.
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move furtively and secretly; hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner
express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept
violate with violence, especially to sacred place
object because of doubts; hesitate
inscribe or dedicate; attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin; assign as a quality
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capacious
 
 
(2)
a.  E.g. In the capacious rotunda of the railroad terminal, thousands of travelers lingered while waiting for their train.
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conquered; overpowered; becoming quieter; not glaring in color; soft in tone
elaborately or excessively ornamented
harmful to living things; injurious to health
capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy
set apart; isolated in restricted sense, so remote from other bodies
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cleft
 
 
(3)
n.  E.g. Trying for a fresh handhold, the mountain climber grasped the edge of a cleft in the sheer rock face.
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cause of grief or distress; discomfort or pain
strictness or severity, as in temperament, action, or judgment; something hard to endure
mutual relationship; interdependence or interconnection relationship
crack or crevice; a split or indentation between two parts, as of the chin
blessing; benefit bestowed, especially in response to a request
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drudgery
 
 
(4)
n.  E.g. Cinderella's fairy godmother rescued her from a life of drudgery.
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homeless person, especially orphaned child; abandoned young animal
person dissatisfied with current conditions; discontented person
one that expounds or interprets; one that speaks for, represents, or advocates
usually short interval of rest or relief; delay in punishment
hard monotonous routine work
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expiate
 
 
(5)
v.  E.g. He tried to expiate his crimes by a full confession to the authorities.
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make false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
hinder; charge with improper conduct; challenge validity of; try to discredit
make amends or pay the penalty for; relieve or cleanse of guilt
avoid deliberately; keep away from
become quiet or less intensive
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hypochondriac
 
 
(6)
n.  E.g. The doctor prescribed chocolate pills for his patient who was a hypochondriac.
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disloyal person; traitor or rebel
name; title; act of naming; act of appealing for aid, sympathy
rapid growth; spread; increase in size by reproduction
patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments; one who is morbidly anxious about his health, and generally depressed
one that is dishonest or troublemaker, especially a impish youngster
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incidental
 
 
(7)
a.  E.g. The scholarship covered his major expenses at college and some of his incidental expenses as well.
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marked by or having equity; just and impartial
fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold
unconventional; strikingly unfamiliar; located far from civilized areas
state of being held in high esteem and honor
happening, as occasional event, without regularity; coming without design
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ovation
 
 
(8)
n.  E.g. When the popular tenor Placido Domingo came on stage, he was greeted by a tremendous ovation.
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grievous loss; particularly, the loss of a relative or friend by death
mass of floating ice; ice formed by freezing of surface-water of polar oceans
photographic composition combining elements from different sources
enthusiastic, prolonged applause; show of public homage or welcome
peak; tall pointed formation, such as mountain peak
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pallid
 
 
(9)
a.  E.g. Because his job required that he work at night and sleep during the day, he had an exceptionally pallid complexion.
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hollow; curved like inner surface of sphere
habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance
abnormally pale; lacking intensity of color or luminousness
harmful; tending to injure or impair; abusive; insulting
disdainful or ironically humorous; cynical; scornful and mocking
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rout
 
 
(10)
v.  E.g. The reinforcements were able to rout the enemy.
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give up; do without; go or pass by without claiming
refer casually or indirectly, or by suggestion
declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
put to disorderly flight or retreat; drive out; cause to flee; defeat overwhelmingly
blow in heavy gusts; speak in a loudly arrogant or bullying manner
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terminus
 
 
(11)
n.  E.g. After we reached the railroad terminus, we continued our journey into the wilderness on saddle horses.
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act of supposing; something supposed; assumption
work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony; make fun of
excess; over-fullness in any respect; superabundance
positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath
last stop of railroad; final point or end; boundary or border
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unwieldy
 
 
(12)
a.  E.g. The large carton was so unwieldy that the movers had trouble getting it up the stairs.
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without feeling; revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
difficult to use or handle because of size or weight or shape; lacking grace in movement or posture
deep-rooted; firmly and long established; habitual
narrow in outlook; related to local church community
in or into a high place; high or higher up
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