SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 08/27/2010

Here is today's word list:

• accomplish (v.): To bring to pass.
• aggression (n.): An unprovoked attack.
• animadvert (v.): To pass criticism or censure.
• aristocrat (n.): A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility.
• Baconian (adj.): Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy.
• blockade (n.): The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces.
• cameo (n.): Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
• clearance (n.): A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.
• condolence (n.): Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune.
• contrivance (n.): The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
• culpable (adj.): Guilty.
• demagnetize (v.): To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
• differential (adj.): Distinctive.
• dissipation (n.): The state of being dispersed or scattered.
• educe (v.): To draw out.
• enlighten (v.): To cause to see clearly.
• excrescence (n.): Any unnatural addition, outgrowth, or development.
• fanciless (adj.): Unimaginative.
• forerun (v.): To go before as introducing or ushering in.;
• genital (adj.): Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs.
• hemorrhage (n.): Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel.
• illuminant (n.): That which may be used to produce light.
• incandescent (adj.): White or glowing with heat.
• inflexible (adj.): That can not be altered or varied.
• interpolation (n.): Verbal interference.
• isolate (v.): To separate from others of its kind.
• legitimate (adj.): Having the sanction of law or established custom.
• luxuriate (v.): To live sumptuously.
• memorable (adj.): Noteworthy.
• modify (v.): To make somewhat different.
• negligence (n.): Omission of that which ought to be done.
• Occident (n.): The countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions.
• outride (v.): To ride faster than.;
• patronize (v.): To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.
• perspire (v.): To excrete through the pores of the skin.;
• poetics (n.): The rules and principles of poetry.
• preoccupy (v.): To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects.
• proscription (n.): Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.
• rancor (n.): Malice.
• regress (v.): To return to a former place or condition.;
• reticence (n.): The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
• script (n.): Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.
• sinus (n.): An opening or cavity.
• stratum (n.): A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
• syllabication (n.): Division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
• tolerable (adj.): Moderately good.
• tyro (n.): One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.;
• variance (n.): Change.
• waistcoat (n.): A vest.

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.