SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/21/2010

Here is today's word list:

• abridgment (n.): A condensed form as of a book or play.
• adoration (n.): Profound devotion.
• amenable (adj.): Willing and ready to submit.
• apparition (n.): Ghost.
• augur (v.): To predict.
• bestial (adj.): Animal.
• bulwark (n.): Anything that gives security or defense.
• charlatan (n.): A quack.
• complex (adj.): Complicated.
• constellation (n.): An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.
• counting-house (n.): A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
• default (n.): The neglect or omission of a legal requirement.
• despite prep. In spite of. ():
• disinherit (v.): To deprive of an inheritance.
• dragnet (n.): A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water.
• emit (v.): To send or give out.
• eugenic (adj.): Relating to the development and improvement of race.
• external (n.): Anything relating or belonging to the outside.
• fluctuation (n.): Frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another.
• furtive (adj.): Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief.
• guise (n.): The external appearance as produced by garb or costume.
• hydrostatics (n.): The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids.
• importation (n.): The act or practice of bringing from one country into another.
• induct (v.): To bring in.;
• instigate (v.): To provoke.
• inwardly (adv.): With no outward manifestation.;
• landscape (n.): A rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation.;
• loathe (v.): To abominate.
• masquerade (n.): A social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised.
• misbehavior (n.): Ill or improper behavior.
• nameless (adj.): Having no fame or reputation.;
• nutriment (n.): That which nourishes.
• ordeal (n.): Anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc.
• paralysis (n.): Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
• perfectible (adj.): Capable of being made perfect.
• pious (adj.): Religious.
• precursor (n.): A forerunner or herald.
• profiteer (n.): One who profits.
• quadrate (v.): To divide into quarters.
• redolent (adj.): Smelling sweet and agreeable.
• repudiate (v.): To refuse to have anything to do with.
• saline (adj.): Constituting or consisting of salt.
• sergeant (n.): A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal.
• spurious (adj.): Not genuine.
• superintend (v.): To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
• terminus (n.): The final point or goal.
• trepidation (n.): Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
• up-keep (n.): Maintenance.
• virile (adj.): Masculine.

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.