SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 07/30/2010

Here is today's word list:

• absolve (v.): To free from sin or its penalties.
• advertiser (n.): One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
• amphibious (adj.): Living both on land and in water.
• appreciable (adj.): Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect.
• austere (adj.): Severely simple; unadorned.
• bewilder (v.): To confuse the perceptions or judgment of.
• burgher (n.): An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.;
• chivalry (n.): The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
• comprehensible (adj.): Intelligible.
• consumptive (adj.): Designed for gradual destruction.;
• cower (v.): To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
• definite (adj.): Having an exact signification or positive meaning.
• determinate (adj.): Definitely limited or fixed.
• disparage (v.): To regard or speak of slightingly.
• dubious (adj.): Doubtful.
• enact (v.): To make into law, as by legislative act.
• evanescent (adj.): Fleeting.
• extraneous (adj.): Having no essential relation to a subject.
• folio (n.): A sheet of paper folded once, or of a size adapted to folding once.
• gallant (adj.): Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit.
• gyroscope (n.): An instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation.;
• hypocrite (n.): One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs.
• improper (adj.): Not appropriate, suitable, or becoming.
• inept (adj.): Not fit or suitable.
• insuppressible (adj.): Incapable of being concealed.
• irony (n.): Censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment.
• lateral (adj.): Directed toward the side.
• loiterer (n.): One who consumes time idly.
• matricide (n.): The killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother.
• mislay (v.): To misplace.
• natal (adj.): Pertaining to one's birth.
• objective (adj.): Grasping and representing facts as they are.
• orthodox (adj.): Holding the commonly accepted faith.
• parish (n.): The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.
• peripatetic (adj.): Walking about.
• plagiarism (n.): The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own.;
• predominate (v.): To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree.
• projection (n.): A prominence.
• quarter (n.): One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
• refer (v.): To direct or send for information or other purpose.
• requite (v.): To repay either good or evil to, as to a person.;
• sanguinary (adj.): Bloody.
• sextuple (adj.): Multiplied by six.
• stallion (n.): An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding.
• supple (adj.): Easily bent.
• theocracy (n.): A government administered by ecclesiastics.
• trimness (n.): Neatness.
• urban (adj.): Of, or pertaining to, or like a city.
• visual (adj.): Perceptible by sight.

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.