SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 08/31/2010

Here is today's word list:

• accouter (v.): To dress.
• agitate (v.): To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
• annalist (n.): Historian.
• aroma (n.): An agreeable odor.
• bailiff (n.): An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.
• boisterous (adj.): Unchecked merriment or animal spirits.
• candid (adj.): Straightforward.
• clothier (n.): One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
• conduit (n.): A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid.
• contumacious (adj.): Rebellious.
• curable (adj.): Capable of being remedied or corrected.
• demerit (n.): A mark for failure or bad conduct.
• diffusible (adj.): Spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly.
• dissonance (n.): Discord.
• effectual (adj.): Efficient.
• enormity (n.): Immensity.
• excusable (adj.): Justifiable.
• faulty (adj.): Imperfect.
• foretell (v.): To predict.
• geology (n.): The department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth.
• heptagon (n.): A figure having seven sides and seven angles.
• illusive (adj.): Deceptive.
• incendiary (n.): Chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively.
• infrequence (n.): Rareness.
• interrogate (v.): To examine formally by questioning.
• itinerate (v.): To wander from place to place.
• leonine (adj.): Like a lion.;
• macadamize (v.): To cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone.
• mendicant (n.): A beggar.
• molt (v.): To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc.
• Nemesis (n.): A goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance.
• occurrence (n.): A happening.
• outstretch (v.): To extend.
• pauper (n.): One without means of support.
• pertinacity (n.): Unyielding adherence.
• polar (adj.): Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth.
• preponderant (adj.): Prevalent.
• prospectus (n.): A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
• rapine (n.): The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
• reimburse (v.): To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
• retouch (v.): To modify the details of.
• scurrilous (adj.): Grossly indecent or vulgar.
• skeptic (n.): One who doubts any statements.
• stripling (n.): A mere youth.
• symmetrical (adj.): Well-balanced.
• toleration (n.): A spirit of charitable leniency.
• ultimatum (n.): A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions.
• vassal (n.): A slave or bondman.;
• wantonness (n.): Recklessness.

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.