SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/25/2010

Here is today's word list:

• abscission (n.): The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
• adumbrate (v.): To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
• amorous (adj.): Having a propensity for falling in love.
• append (v.): To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary.
• auricle (n.): One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
• betide (v.): To happen to or befall.
• buoyancy (n.): Power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas.
• chastity (n.): Sexual or moral purity.
• complicity (n.): Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer.
• constrict (v.): To bind.
• courser (n.): A fleet and spirited horse.
• defer (v.): To delay or put off to some other time.
• despotism (n.): Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part.
• dismissal (n.): Displacement by authority from an office or an employment.
• dramatize (v.): To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner.
• employee (n.): One who works for wages or a salary.
• euphonious (adj.): Characterized by agreeableness of sound.
• extort (v.): To obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, or the subjection of another to some necessity.
• flux (n.): A state of constant movement, change, or renewal.
• futurist (n.): A person of expectant temperament.
• guy (n.): Stay-rope.
• hypnosis (n.): An artificial trance-sleep.
• impoverish (v.): To make indigent or poor.
• inedible (adj.): Not good for food.
• insufficiency (n.): Inadequacy.
• ire (n.): Wrath.
• lascivious (adj.): Lustful.
• lode (n.): A somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein.;
• mastery (n.): The attainment of superior skill.
• misdeed (n.): A wrong or improper act.
• narration (n.): The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence.
• obdurate (adj.): Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity.
• orgies (n.): Wild or wanton revelry.
• paraphernalia (n.): Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
• perfumery (n.): The preparation of perfumes.
• pitiful (adj.): Wretched.
• predicate (v.): To state as belonging to something.
• progeny (n.): Offspring.
• qualm (n.): A fit of nausea.
• redress (v.): To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
• repulsive (adj.): Grossly offensive.
• salvage (n.): Any act of saving property.
• serviceable (adj.): Durable.
• stagnant (adj.): Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool.
• supernatural (adj.): Caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power.
• testament (n.): A will.
• trickery (n.): Artifice.
• upheave (v.): To raise or lift with effort.
• virulence (n.): Extreme poisonousness.

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.