SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 08/30/2010

Here is today's word list:

• account (n.): A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions.
• agile (adj.): Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
• animosity (n.): Hatred.
• armory (n.): An arsenal.
• baffle (v.): To foil or frustrate.
• bodily (adj.): Corporeal.
• canary (adj.): Of a bright but delicate yellow.
• close-hauled (adj.): Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
• conductible (adj.): Capable of being conducted or transmitted.
• controller (n.): One who or that which regulates or directs.
• cupidity (n.): Avarice.
• demented (adj.): Insane.
• diffident (adj.): Affected or possessed with self-distrust.
• dissolve (v.): To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture.
• effective (adj.): Fit for a destined purpose.
• ennoble (v.): To dignify.
• excursion (n.): A journey.
• fatuous (adj.): Idiotic
• foresight (n.): Provision against harm or need.
• gentile (adj.): Belonging to a people not Jewish.
• henpeck (v.): To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances.
• illusion (n.): An unreal image presented to the senses.
• incarcerate (v.): To imprison.;
• influx (n.): Infusion.;
• interpreter (n.): A person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation.;
• itinerary (n.): A detailed account or diary of a journey.
• lenient (adj.): Not harsh.
• lyric (adj.): Fitted for expression in song.
• mendacious (adj.): Untrue.
• mollify (v.): To soothe.
• negotiable (v.): To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property.
• occupant (n.): A tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner.
• outskirt (n.): A border region.;
• paucity (n.): Fewness.
• pertinacious (adj.): Persistent or unyielding.
• poise (n.): Equilibrium.
• preparatory (adj.): Having to do with what is preliminary.
• prospector (n.): One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals.
• rapid (adj.): Having great speed.
• reign (v.): To hold and exercise sovereign power.
• retort (n.): A retaliatory speech.
• scrupulous (adj.): Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong.
• sisterhood (n.): A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow.
• stringent (adj.): Rigid.
• sylph (n.): A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
• tolerate (v.): To passively permit or put up with.
• ultimate (adj.): Beyond which there is nothing else.
• variegate (v.): To mark with different shades or colors.
• wane (v.): To diminish in size and brilliancy.

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.