SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 08/08/2010

Here is today's word list:

• abusive (adj.): Employing harsh words or ill treatment.
• affable (adj.): Easy to approach.
• analogy (n.): Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
• arbitrate (v.): To act or give judgment as umpire.
• autonomy (n.): Self-government.
• bigamy (n.): The crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living.
• cabalism (n.): Superstitious devotion to one's religion.;
• chronometer (n.): A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.;
• compunction (n.): Remorseful feeling.
• contender (n.): One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry.
• credence (n.): Belief.
• degradation (n.): Diminution, as of strength or magnitude.
• deviltry (n.): Wanton and malicious mischief.
• disregard (v.): To take no notice of.
• duteous (adj.): Showing submission to natural superiors.
• encyclical (adj.): Intended for general circulation.;
• evoke (v.): To call or summon forth.
• exuberant (adj.): Marked by great plentifulness.
• forcible (adj.): Violent.
• garnish (v.): In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment.
• handwriting (n.): Penmanship.
• iciness (n.): The state of being icy.
• impunity (n.): Freedom from punishment.
• inexperience (n.): Lack of or deficiency in experience.
• intelligible (adj.): Comprehensible.
• irreparable (adj.): That can not be rectified or made amends for.
• lave (v.): To wash or bathe.
• low-spirited (adj.): Despondent.
• mead (n.): A meadow.
• missile (n.): Any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown.;
• navigable (adj.): Capable of commercial navigation.;
• obsequies (n.): Funeral rites.
• ostracism (n.): Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics.
• paroxysm (n.): A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
• perpendicular (adj.): Straight up and down.;
• pleasant (adj.): Agreeable.
• prefatory (adj.): Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book.
• promiscuous (adj.): Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex).
• quiescence (n.): Quiet.
• reform (n.): Change for the better.
• resistance (n.): The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
• sarcophagus (n.): A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
• sibilant (adj.): Made with a hissing sound.
• statuette (n.): A figurine.
• surcharge (n.): An additional amount charged.
• therefor (adv.): For that or this.
• triumvir (n.): One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
• utility (n.): Fitness for some desirable practical purpose.
• vocable (n.): a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound.

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.