SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/26/2010

Here is today's word list:

• abscond (v.): To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
• advent (n.): The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.
• amorphous (adj.): Without determinate shape.
• appertain (v.): To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.;
• auricular (adj.): Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing.
• betimes (adv.): In good season or time.
• buoyant (adj.): Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat.
• chateau (n.): A castle or manor-house.
• compliment (v.): To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise.
• consul (n.): An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
• courtesy (n.): Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
• deference (n.): Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment.
• destitute (adj.): Poverty-stricken.;
• dismount (v.): To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like.
• drastic (adj.): Acting vigorously.
• employer (n.): One who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay.
• euphony (n.): Agreeableness of sound.
• extortion (n.): The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion.;
• foggy (adj.): Obscure.
• gauge (n.): An instrument for measuring.
• guzzle (v.): To swallow greedily or hastily; gulp.
• hypnotic (adj.): Tending to produce sleep.
• impracticable (adj.): Not feasible.
• ineffable (adj.): Unutterable.
• insufficient (adj.): Inadequate for some need, purpose, or use.
• iridescence (n.): A many-colored appearance.
• lassie (n.): A little lass.
• lodgment (n.): The act of furnishing with temporary quarters.
• material (n.): That of which anything is composed or may be constructed.
• misdemeanor (n.): Evil conduct, small crime.
• narrative (n.): An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event.
• obelisk (n.): A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative.
• origin (n.): The beginning of that which becomes or is made to be.
• paraphrase (v.): Translate freely.
• perfunctory (adj.): Half-hearted.
• pitiless (adj.): Hard-hearted.
• predict (v.): To foretell.
• progression (n.): A moving forward or proceeding in course.
• quandary (n.): A puzzling predicament.
• reducible (adj.): That may be reduced.
• repute (v.): To hold in general opinion.;
• salvo (n.): A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
• servitude (n.): Slavery.
• stagnate (v.): To become dull or inert.
• supernumerary (adj.): Superfluous.
• testator (n.): The maker of a will.
• tricolor (adj.): Of three colors.
• uppermost (adj.): First in order of precedence.
• virulent (adj.): Exceedingly noxious or deleterious.

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.