SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 08/12/2010

Here is today's word list:

• academician (n.): A member of an academy of literature, art, or science.
• affirmative (adj.): Answering yes; to a question at issue.
• anathema (n.): Anything forbidden, as by social usage.
• arboretum (n.): A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
• avalanche (n.): The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock.
• biograph (n.): A bibliographical sketch or notice.
• cadence (n.): Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.
• circumlocution (n.): Indirect or roundabout expression.;
• conceive (v.): To form an idea, mental image or thought of.
• contingency (n.): Possibility of happening.
• crematory (adj.): A place for cremating dead bodies.
• deign (v.): To deem worthy of notice or account.
• dexterity (n.): Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work.
• disrupt (v.): To burst or break asunder.
• dyne (n.): The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
• endemic (adj.): Peculiar to some specified country or people.
• exaggerate (v.): To overstate.
• facetious (adj.): Amusing.
• foreshore (n.): That part of a shore uncovered at low tide.
• gaseous (adj.): Light and unsubstantial.
• harass (v.): To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances.
• idiom (n.): A use of words peculiar to a particular language.
• inaccurate (adj.): Not exactly according to the facts.
• infallible (adj.): Exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement.
• intention (n.): That upon which the mind is set.
• irreverence (n.): The quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
• laxative (adj.): Having power to open or loosen the bowels.
• ludicrous (adj.): Laughable.
• mechanics (n.): The branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces.
• misunderstand (v.): To Take in a wrong sense.
• necessitate (v.): To render indispensable.
• observatory (n.): A building designed for systematic astronomical observations.
• out-and-out (adv.): Genuinely.
• partible (adj.): Separable.
• persecution (n.): Harsh or malignant oppression.;
• pledgeor (n.): One who gives a pledge.
• preferential (adj.): Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority.
• promulgate (v.): To proclaim.
• quintessence (n.): The most essential part of anything.
• refragable (adj.): Capable of being refuted.
• resonance (n.): The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
• satiric (adj.): Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
• siege (n.): A beleaguerment.
• stellar (adj.): Pertaining to the stars.
• surmount (v.): To overcome by force of will.
• thesis (n.): An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
• truculent (adj.): Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
• vacillate (v.): To waver.
• vociferous (adj.): Making a loud outcry.

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.