SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/01/2010

Here is today's word list:

• abet (v.): To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
• addendum (n.): Something added, or to be added.
• alteration (n.): Change or modification.
• antislavery (adj.): Opposed to human slavery.
• assuage (v.): To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease.
• bemoan (v.): To lament
• Britannia (n.): The United Kingdom of Great Britain.;
• cauterize (v.): To burn or sear as with a heated iron.;
• commissariat (n.): The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
• conscript (v.): To force into military service.
• corrode (v.): To ruin or destroy little by little.
• decent (adj.): Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
• derisible (adj.): Open to ridicule.
• disconsolate (adj.): Grief-stricken.;
• dolesome (adj.): Melancholy.
• emancipate (v.): To release from bondage.
• equitable (adj.): Characterized by fairness.
• explicate (v.): To clear from involvement.
• fiscal (adj.): Pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government.
• frontier (n.): The part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country.
• gratification (n.): Satisfaction.;
• horde (n.): A gathered multitude of human beings.
• imperil (v.): To endanger.
• indicant (adj.): That which points out.
• inscrutable (adj.): Impenetrably mysterious or profound.
• invariable (adj.): Unchangeable.
• kingship (n.): Royal state.
• liqueur (n.): An alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances.
• mania (n.): Insanity.
• militarism (n.): A policy of maintaining great standing armies.
• muddle (v.): To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink.
• normalcy (n.): The state of being normal.
• opponent (n.): One who supports the opposite side in a debate, discussion, struggle, or sport.
• panacea (n.): A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
• pentavalent (adj.): Quinqeuvalent.
• photoelectric (adj.): Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity.
• potion (n.): A dose of liquid medicine.
• probate (adj.): Relating to making proof, as of a will.
• puissant (adj.): Possessing strength.
• recoil (v.): To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread.
• repentance (n.): Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong.
• rotate (v.): To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel.
• sensibility (n.): Power to perceive or feel.
• Spartan (adj.): Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe.
• succinct (adj.): Concise.
• telltale (adj.): That gives warning or information.;
• transmission (n.): The act of sending through or across.
• unicellular (adj.): Consisting of a single cell.
• vestment (n.): Clothing or covering.
• yearling (n.): A young animal past its first year and not yet two years old.

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.