SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/28/2010

Here is today's word list:

• absent-minded (adj.): Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.
• adversity (n.): Misfortune.
• ampere (n.): The practical unit of electric-current strength.
• apposition (n.): The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.
• aurora (n.): A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere.
• betrothal (n.): Engagement to marry.
• bureaucracy (n.): Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business.
• check (v.): To hold back.
• comport (v.): To conduct or behave (one).
• consummate (v.): To bring to completion.;
• covert (adj.): Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
• deficiency (n.): Lack or insufficiency.
• deter (v.): To frighten away.
• disobedient (adj.): Neglecting or refusing to obey.
• drowsy (adj.): Heavy with sleepiness.
• empower (v.): To delegate authority to.
• evade (v.): To avoid by artifice.
• extradition (n.): The surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government.
• foist (v.): To palm off.
• gaily (adv.): Merrily.
• gynecology (n.): The science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women.;
• hypnotize (v.): To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions.
• impregnate (v.): To make pregnant.
• inefficiency (n.): That which does not accomplish an intended purpose.
• insulate (v.): To place in a detached state or situation.;
• irk (v.): To afflict with pain, vexation, or fatigue.
• latency (n.): The state of being dormant.
• logical (adj.): Capable of or characterized by clear reasoning.
• maternal (adj.): Pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood.
• mishap (n.): Misfortune.
• narrow-minded (adj.): Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments.
• obesity (n.): Excessive fatness.
• originate (v.): To cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of.
• parentage (n.): The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.
• perigee (n.): The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth.
• placate (v.): To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
• predominance (n.): Ascendancy or preponderance.
• prohibitionist (n.): One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
• quarantine (n.): The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease.
• redundant (adj.): Constituting an excess.
• requisite (adj.): Necessary.
• sanction (v.): To approve authoritatively.
• severely (adv.): Extremely.
• stagy (adj.): Having a theatrical manner.
• supine (adj.): Lying on the back.
• thearchy (n.): Government by a supreme deity.
• trident (n.): The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune.
• uproot (v.): To eradicate.
• viscount (n.): In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage.

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.