SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/05/2010

Here is today's word list:

• accursed (adj.): Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
• akin (adj.): Of similar nature or qualities.
• annual (adj.): Occurring every year.
• arrear (n.): Something overdue and unpaid.
• balsam (n.): A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
• bomb (n.): A hollow projectile containing an explosive material.
• cantata (n.): A choral composition.;
• coalition (n.): Combination in a body or mass.
• conferee (n.): A person with whom another confers.
• convalescence (n.): The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
• curt (adj.): Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.;
• demonstrate (v.): To prove indubitably.
• dilapidated pa. Fallen into decay or partial ruin.; ():
• distemper (n.): A disease or malady.
• effete (adj.): Exhausted, as having performed its functions.
• ensnare (v.): To entrap.
• exemplar (n.): A model, pattern, or original to be copied or imitated.
• federate (v.): To league together.
• forgo (v.): To deny oneself.
• gesture (n.): A movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion.;
• hereditary (adj.): Passing naturally from parent to child.
• imbroglio (n.): A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife.
• inchmeal (adv.): Piecemeal.
• ingenious (adj.): Evincing skill, originality, or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement.
• intervale (n.): A low tract of land between hills, especially along a river.
• jocose (adj.): Done or made in jest.
• levity (n.): Frivolity.
• Madonna (n.): A painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus.
• merciful (adj.): Disposed to pity and forgive.
• monastery (n.): A dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion.;
• Neolithic (adj.): Pertaining to the later stone age.
• ocular (adj.): Of or pertaining to the eye.
• overeat (v.): To eat to excess.
• peaceful (adj.): Tranquil.
• pervade (v.): To pass or spread through every part.
• polycracy (n.): The rule of many.
• presage (v.): To foretell.
• protector (n.): A defender.
• raucous (adj.): Harsh.
• rejuvenate (v.): To restore to youth.
• retroactive (adj.): Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities.
• sebaceous (adj.): Pertaining to or appearing like fat.
• slight (adj.): Of a small importance or significance.
• suasion (n.): The act of persuading.
• symphonious (adj.): Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
• tortuous (adj.): Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
• unaffected (adj.): Sincere.
• vegetation (n.): Plant-life in the aggregate.
• wean (v.): To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment.

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.