SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/03/2010

Here is today's word list:

• accuracy (n.): Exactness.
• ailment (n.): Slight sickness.
• annihilate (v.): To destroy absolutely.
• arrangement (n.): The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order.
• baleful (adj.): Malignant.
• boll (n.): A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.;
• canon (n.): Any rule or law.
• coagulant (adj.): Producing coagulation.;
• confederate (n.): One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement.
• contusion (n.): A bruise.
• cursive (adj.): Writing in which the letters are joined together.
• demolish (v.): To annihilate.
• digraph (n.): A union of two characters representing a single sound.
• dissuasion (n.): The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading.
• effervesce (v.): To bubble up.
• enrapture (v.): To delight extravagantly or intensely.
• executor (n.): A person nominated by the will of another to execute the will.
• fealty (n.): Loyalty.
• forefend (v.): To ward off.
• gestation (n.): Pregnancy.
• herbarium (n.): A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study.
• imaginary (adj.): Fancied.
• inceptive (adj.): Beginning.
• infuse (v.): To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities.
• interrupt (v.): To stop while in progress.
• jeopardize (v.): To imperil.
• lever (n.): That which exerts, or through which one may exert great power.
• macrocosm (n.): The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related.
• mercantile (adj.): Conducted or acting on business principles; commercial.
• momentum (n.): An impetus.
• neo-Latin (n.): Modernized Latin.;
• octavo (n.): A book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves.
• overdo (v.): To overtax the strength of.
• payee (n.): A person to whom money has been or is to be paid.
• perturbation (n.): Mental excitement or confusion.;
• pollute (v.): To contaminate.
• preposterous (adj.): Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
• protection (n.): Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil.
• ration (v.): To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food.
• reiterate (v.): To say or do again and again.;
• retrench (v.): To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
• seance (n.): A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
• skirmish (n.): Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
• stupendous (adj.): Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree.
• sympathize (v.): To share the sentiments or mental states of another.
• torrid (adj.): Excessively hot.
• umbrage (n.): A sense of injury.
• vegetarian (n.): One who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable.
• weak-kneed (adj.): Without resolute purpose or energy.

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.