SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 06/24/2010

Here is today's word list:

• abbot (n.): The superior of a community of monks.
• actionable (adj.): Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
• allusion (n.): An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
• antiphon (n.): A response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
• assets (n.): pl. Property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
• belay (v.): To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
• bridle (n.): The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins.
• cathode (n.): The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
• colossus (n.): Any strikingly great person or object.
• connote (v.): To mean; signify.
• corpulent (adj.): Obese.
• decapitate (v.): To behead.
• depreciate (v.): To lessen the worth of.
• disciplinary (adj.): Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority.
• docile (adj.): Easy to manage.
• elocution (n.): The art of correct intonation, inflection, and gesture in public speaking or reading.
• epizootic (adj.): Prevailing among animals.
• expediency (n.): Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case.
• finality (n.): The state or quality of being final or complete.
• frigid (adj.): Lacking warmth.
• grandiose (adj.): Having an imposing style or effect.
• homogeneity (n.): Congruity of the members or elements or parts.
• impecunious (adj.): Having no money.
• incontrovertible (adj.): Indisputable.
• inquire (v.): To ask information about.
• inundate (v.): To fill with an overflowing abundance.
• kiln (n.): An oven or furnace for baking, burning, or drying industrial products.
• lingua (n.): The tongue.
• maltreat (v.): To treat ill, unkindly, roughly, or abusively.
• midwife (n.): A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth.
• morose (adj.): Gloomy.
• non-resident (adj.): Not residing within a given jurisdiction.;
• opalescence (n.): The property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints.
• palliate (v.): To cause to appear less guilty.
• penetration (n.): Discernment.
• philosophy (n.): The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything.
• posterior (n.): The hinder part.
• principle (n.): A general truth or proposition.;
• psychiatry (n.): The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease.
• reckless (adj.): Foolishly headless of danger.
• reorganize (v.): To change to a more satisfactory form of organization.;
• ripplet (n.): A small ripple, as of water.
• semiannual (adj.): Recurring at intervals of six months.
• sophisticate (v.): To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner.
• subtrahend (n.): That which is to be subtracted.
• technique (n.): Manner of performance.
• transition (n.): Passage from one place, condition, or action to another.
• underwrite (v.): To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance.
• vernal (adj.): Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
• wrangle (v.): To maintain by noisy argument or dispute.

How To Master These Words

1. Create or buy a notebook. It can be named SAT/ACT Vocabulary Notebook or you can create your own name. You will be keeping your weekly words, definitions and assignments in this notebook.
2. Write the words and definitions in your vocabulary notebook.
3. Create your own sentence using each word and write this in your vocabulary notebook.
4. Make Flashcards - Write the word on one side of an index card and put the definition and a sentence on the opposite side. You can find ideas for making flashcards on the Internet by clicking on the link: Resources showing how to create your own flashcards.
5. Online Flashcard Game: Go to this site. lingro.com. Click on "wordlist" at the top of the page. Then click on "create new wordlist." Enter your word list for the week. When finished, click on "games" at the top of the page. Then click on "flashcards" and select your list. See if you can name the definition on each word before clicking on it to see the answer.
6. Use this dictionary link to check the pronounciation of each word. Type each word in the box on the left, then click the sound icon to listen.
7. Use TokBox to practice saying the words aloud. Register to get a free account. Click on "Send a Video Message." A box will open to set up your computer microphone and camera. Click "allow". Press the red "Record" button to begin. Press the "Stop" button when you are finished. Once you have practiced saying the words and recording it, send the video you created to your email account and listen to your video message. Send it to your parents' email account also to show them what you are learning.
8. Create your own crossword puzzle. Click on this link. Enter your words and your clues (definition), then click "Create Crossword Now." A new web page will appear. You can put a title on your puzzle if you wish, then click "Create Crossword." Print this out and complete the puzzle. Insert the completed work in your vocabulary notebook.