SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/15/2010

Here is today's word list:

• aboriginal (adj.): Primitive; unsophisticated.
• administrator (n.): One who manages affairs of any kind.
• ambitious (adj.): Eagerly desirous and aspiring.
• apostate (adj.): False.
• auburn (adj.): Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
• bequeath (v.): To give by will.
• brusque (adj.): Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech.
• chagrin (n.): Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
• competitor (n.): A rival.
• consonant (adj.): Being in agreement or harmony with.
• counteract (v.): To act in opposition to.
• dedication (n.): The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
• desist (v.): To cease from action.;
• disfigure (v.): To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of.
• donor (n.): One who makes a donation or present.
• emergent (adj.): Coming into view.
• essence (n.): That which makes a thing to be what it is.
• extensible (adj.): Capable of being thrust out.
• floe (n.): A collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice.
• furbish (v.): To restore brightness or beauty to.
• grotto (n.): A small cavern.;
• hydra (n.): The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules.
• implausible (adj.): Not plausible.
• indistinct (adj.): Vague.
• insolent (adj.): Impudent.
• inviolable (adj.): Incapable of being injured or disturbed.
• laddie (n.): A lad.
• littoral (adj.): Of, pertaining to, or living on a shore.
• maroon (v.): To put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island.
• mirage (n.): An optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert.
• mutiny (n.): Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority.
• nuisance (n.): That which annoys, vexes, or irritates.
• oral (adj.): Uttered through the mouth.
• papyrus (n.): The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
• percipient (n.): One who or that which perceives.
• pillage (n.): Open robbery, as in war.
• precipitant (adj.): Moving onward quickly and heedlessly.
• profession (n.): Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines.
• putrescent (adj.): Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
• rectitude (n.): The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
• reprimand (v.): To chide or rebuke for a fault.
• sacrilegious (adj.): Impious.
• sequacious (adj.): Ready to be led.
• spheroid (n.): A body having nearly the form of a sphere.
• superb (adj.): Sumptuously elegant.
• tenure (n.): The term during which a thing is held.
• treble (adj.): Multiplied by three.
• untimely (adj.): Unseasonable.
• viol (n.): A stringed instrument of the violin class.

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.