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Medium Style & Word Choice Drill

15 medium-difficulty ACT English questions on Style & Word Choice. Each question is on its own page with a worked answer explanation, the underlying rule, and a quick study tip.

Medium English Style & Word Choice

All 15 questions

  1. 1 Eliminating Wordiness The committee made the decision to come to a conclusion to approve the proposal. Medium
  2. 2 Removing Redundant Words The lecture began at exactly 9 a.m. in the morning on the first day of class. Medium
  3. 3 Idiomatic Word Choice The new policy will have a significant affect on staffing decisions next quarter. Medium
  4. 4 Choosing the Most Precise Word The hiking trail goes through dense forest before opening into a wide alpine meadow Medium
  5. 5 Maintaining Academic Register In her recent paper, the geneticist got down to the question of how mutations accum Medium
  6. 6 Eliminating Wordiness The committee made the decision to come to a conclusion to approve the proposal. Medium
  7. 7 Removing Redundant Words The lecture began at exactly 9 a.m. in the morning on the first day of class. Medium
  8. 8 Idiomatic Word Choice The new policy will have a significant affect on staffing decisions next quarter. Medium
  9. 9 Choosing the Most Precise Word The hiking trail goes through dense forest before opening into a wide alpine meadow Medium
  10. 10 Maintaining Academic Register In her recent paper, the geneticist got down to the question of how mutations accum Medium
  11. 11 Eliminating Wordiness The committee made the decision to come to a conclusion to approve the proposal. Medium
  12. 12 Removing Redundant Words The lecture began at exactly 9 a.m. in the morning on the first day of class. Medium
  13. 13 Idiomatic Word Choice The new policy will have a significant affect on staffing decisions next quarter. Medium
  14. 14 Choosing the Most Precise Word The hiking trail goes through dense forest before opening into a wide alpine meadow Medium
  15. 15 Maintaining Academic Register In her recent paper, the geneticist got down to the question of how mutations accum Medium

How to use this drill

Open the questions one at a time. Read the prompt, decide on an answer before scrolling, then check the explanation. The point of a drill is not to "get the question right" — it's to internalize the rule so you can apply it cold under timed conditions on test day.

If you're missing more than a third of the questions in this set, drop down a difficulty tier and rebuild from there. If you're getting all of them quickly, jump up a tier and try a mixed drill across subtopics.

What "Medium" means here

Medium questions add a layer — multi-step calculation, two competing rules, or a mildly tempting wrong answer that requires careful reading. A student scoring around 26 composite should be solid here; this is also the sweet spot for most score-improvement work.

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