SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 08/19/2010

Here is today's word list:

• accession (n.): Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.
• afresh (adv.): Once more, after rest or interval.
• anesthetic (adj.): Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.
• archdeacon (n.): A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
• avidity (n.): Greediness.
• blaspheme (v.): To indulge in profane oaths.
• callosity (n.): The state of being hard and insensible.
• clairvoyance (n.): Intuitive sagacity or perception.;
• concordance (n.): Harmony.
• contraband (n.): Trade forbidden by law or treaty.
• crusade (n.): Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle.
• deleterious (adj.): Hurtful, morally or physically.
• dialogue (n.): A formal conversation in which two or more take part.
• dissent (n.): Disagreement.
• eclipse (n.): The obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body.
• enfranchise (v.): To endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote.
• excellent (adj.): Possessing distinguished merit.
• factious (adj.): Turbulent.
• foreground (n.): That part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator.
• generality (n.): The principal portion.;
• hazard (n.): Risk.
• illegible (adj.): Undecipherable.
• inanimate (adj.): Destitute of animal life.
• infidelity (n.): Disloyalty.
• interim (n.): Time between acts or periods.
• irritancy (n.): The quality of producing vexation.;
• legalize (v.): To give the authority of law to.
• lunar (adj.): Pertaining to the moon.;
• mediocre (adj.): Ordinary.
• mobocracy (n.): Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace.
• nectarine (n.): A variety of the peach.
• obstreperous (adj.): Boisterous.
• outlast (v.): To last longer than.;
• pastoral (adj.): Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
• personal (adj.): Not general or public.
• pluperfect (adj.): Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action.;
• prelacy (n.): A system of church government.
• prophesy (v.): To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance.
• radiate (v.): To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus.
• regality (n.): Royalty.
• restitution (n.): Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
• scholarly (adj.): Characteristic of an erudite person.;
• simplify (v.): To make less complex or difficult.
• stimulate (v.): To rouse to activity or to quickened action.;
• suspense (n.): Uncertainty.
• tincture (n.): A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
• tutorship (n.): The office of a guardian.;
• valediction (n.): A bidding farewell.
• voluptuous (adj.): having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality.

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.