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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ascendancy
 
 
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n.  E.g. Leaders of religious cults maintain ascendancy over their followers by methods that can verge on brainwashing.
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insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect
noise, as made by a crowd; riot or uprising
gift for finding valuable or desirable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck
superiority or decisive advantage; domination
hard monotonous routine work
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bastion
 
 
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n.  E.g. The villagers fortified the town hall, hoping this improvised bastion could protect them from the guerillas' raids.
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willingness to carry out the wishes of others; great respect
beginning of something; taking in, as by swallowing; process of receiving within
superiority or decisive advantage; domination
mental disorder marked by confusion
fortress; projecting part of fortification; well-fortified position
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collusion
 
 
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n.  E.g. They're in collusion with the government and just want a piece of the pie like everyone else.
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effort; expenditure of much physical work
anxiety; extreme emotional disturbance
prayer for help; calling upon as reference or support
secret agreement for an illegal purpose; conspiracy
convenient features; courtesies
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disheveled
 
 
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a.  E.g. Your disheveled appearance will hurt your chances in this interview.
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mixed up; difficult to understand because it has been distorted
wholly absorbing one's attention
very precise and formal; exceedingly proper
marked by disorder; untidy; having hair in loose disorder
inharmonious; impossible to coexist; not easy to combine harmoniously
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filibuster
 
 
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v.  E.g. Even though we disapproved of Senator Foghorn's political goals, we were impressed by his ability to filibuster endlessly to keep an issue from coming to a vote.
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extinguish; put down forcibly; suppress; pacify or quiet
block legislation by making long speeches
incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble
refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice
rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder; take as spoils
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genealogy
 
 
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n.  E.g. He was proud of his genealogy and constantly referred to the achievements of his ancestors.
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flight of missiles; round of gunshots; tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
reservoir or water tank; vessel to hold water for household uses
reserve; state or quality of being reluctant; unwillingness
group of closely located islands
account or history of descent of person or family from ancestor; lineage
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incline
 
 
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n.  E.g. The architect recommended that the nursing home's ramp be rebuilt because its incline was too steep for wheelchairs.
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goat's horn overflowing with fruit and grain; symbol of abundance
laugh in half-suppressed or foolish manner; disrespectful laugh
cause to lean, slant, or slope; deviate from the horizontal or vertical
act of sustaining; something, especially food, that sustains life or health
conflict; lack of agreement among persons, groups, or things
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luxuriant
 
 
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a.  E.g. Lady Godiva was completely covered by her luxuriant hair.
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detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad
silent or reserved in speech; saying little; not inclined to speak or converse
abundant; rich and splendid; fertile
effectively concise; appearing as if wiped or rubbed, as smooth
unoriginal; derived from another source
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progenitor
 
 
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n.  E.g. The Roth family, whose progenitor emigrated from Germany early in the nineteenth century, settled in Peru, Illinois.
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direct ancestor; originator of a line of descent; originator or founder
ceremonial procession or display; succession or series
swiftness of action or motion; speed
board on which painter mixes pigments
deep gully; a dry gulch; brook or creek; watercourse
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schism
 
 
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n.  E.g. Let us not widen the schism by further bickering.
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one derived from another; offspring or descendant; result of creative effort, as product
separation or division into factions; formal division or split within religious body
complete agreement in opinion or resolution of all persons concerned
expectation of misfortune; feeling of evil to come; unfavorable omen
pretense; something intended to misrepresent
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stanza
 
 
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n.  E.g. Do you know the last stanza of the national anthem?
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unit of poem, written or printed as a paragraph
goat's horn overflowing with fruit and grain; symbol of abundance
active resistance; condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor
study of insects; branch of zoology which treats of insects
reservoir or water tank; vessel to hold water for household uses
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wince
 
 
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v.  E.g. The screech of the chalk on the blackboard made her wince.
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spread out widely; scatter freely; pour out and cause to spread freely
draw back or shrink involuntarily, as in pain or from blow
establish by evidence; make firm or solid; support
stealthily lie in waiting; exist unperceived
give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy
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