SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/01/2010

Here is today's word list:

• accredit (v.): To give credit or authority to.
• agrarian (adj.): Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land.
• annals (n.): A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.
• arraign (v.): To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not.
• baize (n.): A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
• bole (n.): The trunk or body of a tree.
• candor (n.): The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
• clumsy (adj.): Awkward of movement.
• confectionery (n.): The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
• contumacy (n.): Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
• curator (n.): A person having charge as of a library or museum.
• demise (n.): Death.
• diffusion (n.): Dispersion.;
• dissonant (adj.): Harsh or disagreeable in sound.
• effeminacy (n.): Womanishness.
• enormous (adj.): Gigantic.
• execrable (adj.): Abominable.
• faun (n.): One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet.
• forethought (n.): Premeditation.;
• germane (adj.): Relevant.
• heptarchy (n.): A group of seven governments.
• illusory (adj.): Deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance.
• incentive (n.): That which moves the mind or inflames the passions.
• infrequent (adj.): Uncommon.;
• interrogative (adj.): Having the nature or form of a question.;
• jargon (n.): Confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech.
• lethargy (n.): Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind.
• machinery (n.): The parts of a machine or engine, taken collectively.
• mentality (n.): Intellectuality.
• momentary (adj.): Lasting but a short time.
• neocracy (n.): Government administered by new or untried persons.
• octagon (n.): A figure with eight sides and eight angles.
• outstrip (v.): To go beyond.
• pauperism (n.): Dependence on charity.
• pertinent (adj.): Relevant.
• polemics (n.): The art of controversy or disputation.;
• preponderate (v.): To exceed in influence or power.
• prostrate (adj.): Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
• rapt (adj.): Enraptured.
• rein (n.): A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
• retrace (v.): To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking.
• scuttle (v.): To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom.
• skepticism (n.): The entertainment of doubt concerning something.
• studious (adj.): Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge.
• symmetry (n.): Relative proportion and harmony.
• topography (n.): The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
• ultramundane (adj.): Pertaining to supernatural things or to another life.
• vaudeville (n.): A variety show.
• warlike (adj.): Belligerent.

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.