SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/24/2010

Here is today's word list:

• abscess (n.): A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
• adulterate (v.): To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
• amity (n.): Friendship.
• appellation (n.): The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called.
• aural (adj.): Of or pertaining to the ear.
• bethink (v.): To remind oneself.
• bungle (v.): To execute clumsily.
• chastise (v.): To subject to punitive measures.
• complication (n.): An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner.
• constituent (n.): One who has the right to vote at an election.;
• course (n.): Line of motion or direction.;
• defensive (adj.): Carried on in resistance to aggression.;
• despot (n.): An absolute and irresponsible monarch.
• dislocate (v.): To put out of proper place or order.
• dramatist (n.): One who writes plays.
• emphatic (adj.): Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set of words.
• euphemism (n.): A figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted.
• extol (v.): To praise in the highest terms.
• fluential (adj.): Pertaining to streams.
• futile (adj.): Of no avail or effect.
• gusto (n.): Keen enjoyment.
• hypercritical (adj.): Faultfinding.
• impotent (adj.): Destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual.
• inebriate (v.): To intoxicate.
• instructive (adj.): Conveying knowledge.
• irate (adj.): Moved to anger.
• lapse (n.): A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just.
• locomotion (n.): The act or power of moving from one place to another.
• masterpiece (n.): A superior production.;
• miscreant (n.): A villain.;
• narrate (v.): To tell a story.
• oakum (n.): Hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope.
• ordnance (n.): A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war.
• paramour (n.): One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
• perform (v.): To accomplish.
• pitiable (adj.): Contemptible.
• predicament (n.): A difficult, trying situation or plight.
• profuse (adj.): Produced or displayed in overabundance.
• qualify (v.): To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions.
• redound (n.): Rebound.
• repulse (n.): The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
• salutatory (n.): The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
• service (n.): Any work done for the benefit of another.
• squatter (n.): One who settles on land without permission or right.
• superlative (n.): That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence.
• terse (adj.): Pithy.
• tribune (n.): Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
• upheaval (n.): Overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition.;
• virtuoso (n.): A master in the technique of some particular fine art.

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.