SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 08/01/2010

Here is today's word list:

• absorption (n.): The act or process of absorbing.
• advocacy (n.): The act of pleading a cause.
• amplitude (n.): Largeness.
• apprehensible (adj.): Capable of being conceived.
• authentic (adj.): Of undisputed origin.;
• bibliography (n.): A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject.
• bursar (n.): A treasurer.
• choleric (adj.): Easily provoked to anger.
• comprehensive (adj.): Large in scope or content.
• contagious (adj.): Transmitting disease.
• crag (n.): A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge.
• deforest (v.): To clear of forests.
• deterrent (adj.): Hindering from action through fear.
• dispel (v.): To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions.
• ductile (adj.): Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread.
• encamp (v.): To pitch tents for a resting-place.
• evangelist (n.): A preacher who goes from place to place holding services.
• extravagance (n.): Undue expenditure of money.
• fondle (v.): To handle tenderly and lovingly.
• galvanic (adj.): Pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action.;
• habitant (n.): Dweller.
• hypotenuse (n.): The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
• improvident (adj.): Lacking foresight or thrift.
• inestimable (adj.): Above price.
• insurgent (n.): One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place.
• irradiate (v.): To render clear and intelligible.
• lattice (n.): Openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars.
• longevity (n.): Unusually prolonged life.
• matrix (n.): That which contains and gives shape or form to anything.
• misnomer (n.): A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
• naturally (adv.): According to the usual order of things.
• obligate (v.): To hold to the fulfillment of duty.
• orthogonal (adj.): Having or determined by right angles.
• parity (n.): Equality, as of condition or rank.
• perjury (n.): A solemn assertion of a falsity.
• plasticity (n.): The property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed.
• preempt (v.): To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land.
• prolific (adj.): Producing offspring or fruit.
• quartet (n.): A composition for four voices or four instruments.
• referable (adj.): Ascribable.
• reseat (v.): To place in position of office again.;
• sanguineous (adj.): Consisting of blood.
• shiftless (adj.): Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
• stanza (n.): A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
• supplicant (n.): One who asks humbly and earnestly.
• theologian (n.): A professor of divinity.
• trio (n.): Three things grouped or associated together.
• urchin (n.): A roguish, mischievous boy.
• vitality (n.): The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance.

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.