SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/17/2010

Here is today's word list:

• aboveboard (adv.): Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.
• admittance (n.): Entrance, or the right or permission to enter.
• ambulance (n.): A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
• apothecary (n.): One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.
• audible (adj.): Loud enough to be heard.
• berth (n.): A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc.
• buffoonery (n.): Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc.
• chancery (n.): A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
• complacent (adj.): Pleased or satisfied with oneself.
• conspicuous (adj.): Clearly visible.
• countercharge (v.): To accuse in return.;
• deface (v.): To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of.
• despair (n.): Utter hopelessness and despondency.
• dishonest (adj.): Untrustworthy.
• doublet (n.): One of a pair of like things.
• emigrant (n.): One who moves from one place to settle in another.
• estimable (adj.): Worthy of respect.
• extensive (adj.): Extended widely in space, time, or scope.
• floral (adj.): Pertaining to flowers.
• furlough (n.): A temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer.
• guess (n.): Surmise.
• hydrodynamics (n.): The branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids.
• implicate (v.): To show or prove to be involved in or concerned
• indivisible (adj.): Not separable into parts.
• inspector (n.): An official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance.
• involuntary (adj.): Unwilling.
• laggard (adj.): Falling behind.
• livelihood (n.): Means of subsistence.
• Martian (adj.): Pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet.
• misanthropic (adj.): Hating mankind.
• mystic (n.): One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth.
• numerical (adj.): Of or pertaining to number.
• oration (n.): An elaborate or formal public speech.
• paradox (n.): A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
• percolator (n.): A filter.
• pincers (n.): An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
• precise (adj.): Exact.
• proffer (v.): To offer to another for acceptance.
• pyromania (n.): An insane propensity to set things on fire.
• recur (v.): To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
• reprobate (n.): One abandoned to depravity and sin.;
• sagacious (adj.): Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.;
• sequence (n.): The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time.
• spinous (adj.): Having spines.
• superficial (adj.): Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious.
• termagant (adj.): Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
• tremendous (adj.): Awe-inspiring.
• unutterable (adj.): Inexpressible.
• violator (n.): One who transgresses.

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.