SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/14/2010

Here is today's word list:

• abomination (n.): A very detestable act or practice.
• adjutant (adj.): Auxiliary.
• ambiguous (adj.): Having a double meaning.
• apostasy (n.): A total departure from one's faith or religion.;
• attorney-general (n.): The chief law-officer of a government.
• benison (n.): Blessing.
• browbeat (v.): To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner.
• cession (n.): Surrender, as of possessions or rights.
• competitive (adj.): characterized by rivalry.
• consonance (n.): The state or quality of being in accord with.
• counter-claim (n.): A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff.
• decrepit (adj.): Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity.
• designate (v.): To select or appoint, as by authority.
• disfavor (n.): Disregard.
• donee (n.): A person to whom a donation is made.
• emergence (n.): A coming into view.
• esquire (n.): A title of dignity, office, or courtesy.
• extempore (adv.): Without studied or special preparation.;
• flippant (adj.): Having a light, pert, trifling disposition.;
• fungus (n.): A plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom.
• grotesque (adj.): Incongruously composed or ill-proportioned.
• hybrid (adj.): Cross-bred.
• impious (adj.): Characterized by irreverence or irreligion.;
• indispensable (adj.): Necessary or requisite for the purpose.
• insolence (n.): Pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others.
• invincible (adj.): Not to be conquered, subdued, or overcome.
• lactic (adj.): Pertaining to milk.
• litigious (adj.): Quarrelsome.
• maritime (adj.): Situated on or near the sea.
• minutia (n.): A small or unimportant particular or detail.
• mutilate (v.): To disfigure.
• nugatory (adj.): Having no power or force.
• opulent (adj.): Wealthy.
• papacy (n.): The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
• percipience (n.): The act of perceiving.
• piecemeal (adv.): Gradually.
• precipice (n.): A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff.
• productive (adj.): Yielding in abundance.
• pusillanimous (adj.): Without spirit or bravery.
• rectify (v.): To correct.
• reprieve (v.): To grant a respite from punishment to.
• sacrilege (n.): The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
• sepulcher (n.): A burial-place.
• sphericity (n.): The state or condition of being a sphere.
• superannuate (v.): To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service.
• tentative (adj.): Done as an experiment.
• treatise (n.): An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
• unspeakable (adj.): Abominable.
• vinery (n.): A greenhouse for grapes.

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.