Vocabulary Definitions
ACT/ Reading Exam
ACT Question Types
Vocabulary Definitions
Halloween
100

Something with two meanings that are contrary or do not make sense. 

What is Paradoxical?

100

Prose Fiction

What is the first passage?

100

Questions answering main idea or big picture.

What is Global questions

100

The state of being deprived of a right or privelege, especially the right to vote.

What is Disenfranchisement?

100

Orange for Fall Harvest and black for the passing of summer

What are the original Halloween colors?

200

When you are aware or have knowledge of something.

What is Cognizant?

200

Social Science

What is the second passage?

200

Questions answering explicitly stated information in the text.

What is Detail questions?

200

The fact or state of being plural.

What is Plurality?

200

Irish used potatoes and turnips for this purpose

What is to make Jack-o-Lanterns?

300

To infringe or go beyond the bounds of something

What is Transgress?

300

Humanities

What is the third passage?

300

Questions not stated directly in text,but usually strongly suggested based on two or more details.

What is Inference question?

300

Gives the impression that something bad is going to happen

What is ominous?

300

The first name was Chicken Feed 

What is Candy Corn?

400

 A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class

What is Prerogative?

400

Natural Science

What is the fourth passage?

400

Questions about Vocabulary

What is Vocab in  Context questions?

400

The fact of not being on friendly terms or belonging to a social group. 

What is estrangement?

400

Bonfires lit on Halloween

What is to ward off Ghosts?

500

Exemption from punishment or freedom from injurious consequences of an action

What is Impunity?

500

Ten questions

What is the number of questions for each passage?

500

Questions asking how or why author wrote specific text. 

What is a Function question?

500

The act of hurting or doing harm to someone because they hurt you.

What is retaliation?

500

Celtics celebrated the end of fall harvest and the crossing over of spirits

What is Samhein..what we know today as Halloween.