SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 08/18/2010

Here is today's word list:

• accessible (adj.): Approachable.
• aforesaid (adj.): Said in a preceding part or before.
• anemometer (n.): An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
• archbishop (n.): The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church.
• aviary (n.): A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept.
• blase (adj.): Sated with pleasure.
• calculus (n.): A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
• claimant (n.): One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
• concord (n.): Harmony.
• contort (v.): To twist into a misshapen form.
• crucible (n.): A trying and purifying test or agency.
• delectation (n.): Delight.
• dialectician (n.): A logician.;
• dissension (n.): Angry or violent difference of opinion.;
• eccentricity (n.): Idiosyncrasy.
• enfeeble (v.): To debilitate.
• Excellency (n.): A title of honor bestowed upon various high officials.
• faction (n.): A number of persons combined for a common purpose.
• forego (v.): To deny oneself the pleasure or profit of.
• genealogist (n.): A tracer of pedigrees.
• hawthorn (n.): A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges.
• illegal (adj.): Not according to law.
• inane (adj.): Silly.
• infidel (n.): One who denies the existence of God.
• interdict (n.): Authoritative act of prohibition.;
• irritable (adj.): Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation.;
• legacy (n.): A bequest.
• lunacy (n.): Mental unsoundness.
• medieval (adj.): Belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages.
• moat (n.): A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall.
• nectar (n.): Any especially sweet and delicious drink.
• obstinacy (n.): Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way.
• outlandish (adj.): Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action.;
• passive (adj.): Unresponsive.
• personage (n.): A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station.;
• plummet (n.): A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical.
• prejudice (n.): A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts.
• prophecy (n.): Any prediction or foretelling.
• radiance (n.): Brilliant or sparkling luster.
• regalia (n.): pl. The emblems of royalty.
• respondent (adj.): Answering.
• scarcity (n.): Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
• similitude (n.): Similarity.
• stimulant (n.): Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action.;
• susceptible (adj.): Easily under a specified power or influence.
• timorous (adj.): Lacking courage.
• tutelar (adj.): Protective.
• vale (n.): Level or low land between hills.
• voluble (adj.): Having great fluency in speaking.

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.