SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/11/2010

Here is today's word list:

• abnormal (adj.): Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.
• adjudge (v.): To award or bestow by formal decision.
• amateur (adj.): Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
• apiary (n.): A place where bees are kept.
• atrocity (n.): Great cruelty or reckless wickedness.
• benign (adj.): Good and kind of heart.
• bronchus (n.): Either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs.
• ceremonial (adj.): Characterized by outward form or ceremony.
• compensate (v.): To remunerate.
• consistency (n.): A state of permanence.
• cosmopolitan (adj.): Common to the entire world.
• decorate (v.): To embellish.
• descry (v.): To discern.;
• discussion (n.): Debate.
• domineer (v.): To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance.
• embolism (n.): An obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel.
• erudition (n.): Extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc.
• expulsion (n.): Forcible ejection.;
• fledgling (n.): A young bird.
• fundamental (adj.): Basal.
• grimace (n.): A distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc.
• humiliate (v.): To put to shame.
• impetuous (adj.): Impulsive.
• indiscernible (adj.): Not perceptible.
• insipid (adj.): Tasteless.
• inveterate (adj.): Habitual.
• lackadaisical (adj.): Listless.
• lithotype (n.): In engraving, an etched stone surface for printing.
• manumission (n.): Emancipation.;
• ministry (n.): A service.
• munificent (adj.): Extraordinarily generous.
• nuance (n.): A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind.
• option (n.): The right, power, or liberty of choosing.
• Pantheon (n.): A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
• perceive (v.): To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses.
• picayune (adj.): Of small value.
• precedent (n.): An instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
• prodigal (n.): One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property.
• purloin (v.): To steal.
• recrudescence (n.): The state of becoming raw or sore again.;
• reprehension (n.): Expression of blame.
• ruth (n.): Sorrow for another's misery.
• separate (v.): To take apart.
• spectrum (n.): An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
• sumptuous (adj.): Rich and costly.
• tenet (n.): Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true.
• treacherous (adj.): Perfidious.
• unnecessary (adj.): Not essential under the circumstances.
• vindicate (v.): To prove true, right, or real.

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.