SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/23/2010

Here is today's word list:

• abrupt (adj.): Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break.
• adulterant (n.): An adulterating substance.
• amicable (adj.): Done in a friendly spirit.
• appellate (adj.): Capable of being appealed to.
• aura (n.): Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
• bestride (v.): To get or sit upon astride, as a horse.
• bumptious (adj.): Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
• chasten (v.): To purify by affliction.;
• complicate (v.): To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with.
• constituency (n.): The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
• courageous (adj.): Brave.
• defensible (adj.): Capable of being maintained or justified.
• despondent (adj.): Disheartened.
• disjunctive (adj.): Helping or serving to disconnect or separate.
• drainage (n.): The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc.
• emphasize (v.): To articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words.
• eulogy (n.): A spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character.
• extinguish (v.): To render extinct.
• fluent (adj.): Having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas.
• fusible (adj.): Capable of being melted by heat.
• gumption (n.): Common sense.
• hygiene (n.): The branch of medical science that relates to improving health.
• importune (v.): To harass with persistent demands or entreaties.
• indulgent (adj.): Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care.
• instill (v.): To infuse.
• irascible (adj.): Prone to anger.
• languor (n.): Lassitude of body or depression.;
• loch (n.): A lake.
• massive (adj.): Of considerable bulk and weight.
• miscount (v.): To make a mistake in counting.
• Narcissus (n.): The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection.;
• oaken (adj.): Made of or from oak.
• ordination (n.): A consecration to the ministry.
• paramount (adj.): Supreme in authority.
• perforate (v.): To make a hole or holes through.
• piteous (adj.): Compassionate.
• predecessor (n.): An incumbent of a given office previous to another.
• profligate (adj.): Abandoned to vice.
• qualification (n.): A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.
• redoubtable (adj.): Formidable.
• repugnant (adj.): Offensive to taste and feeling.
• salutation (n.): Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act.
• sergeant-major (n.): The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
• squalid (adj.): Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
• superintendent (n.): One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
• territorial (adj.): Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction.;
• triad (n.): A group of three persons of things.
• upcast (n.): A throwing upward.
• virtual (adj.): Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance.

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.