SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/06/2010

Here is today's word list:

• accusation (n.): A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error.
• alabaster (n.): A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
• annuity (n.): An annual allowance, payment, or income.
• arrival (n.): A coming to stopping-place or destination.;
• banal (adj.): Commonplace.
• bombard (v.): To assail with any missile or with abusive speech.
• canto (n.): One of the divisions of an extended poem.
• coddle (v.): To treat as a baby or an invalid.
• confessor (n.): A spiritual advisor.
• convalescent (adj.): Recovering health after sickness.
• curtail (v.): To cut off or cut short.
• demonstrative (adj.): Inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts.
• dilate (v.): To enlarge in all directions.
• distend (v.): To stretch out or expand in every direction.;
• efficacious (adj.): Effective.
• entail (v.): To involve; necessitate.
• exemplary (adj.): Fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation.;
• feint (n.): Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement.
• formation (n.): Relative disposition of parts.
• ghastly (adj.): Hideous.
• heredity (n.): Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring.
• imbrue (v.): To wet or moisten.;
• inchoate (adj.): Incipient.
• ingenuity (n.): Cleverness in contriving, combining, or originating.
• intervene (v.): To interfere for some end.
• jocular (adj.): Inclined to joke.
• levy (v.): To impose and collect by force or threat of force.
• magician (n.): A sorcerer.
• merciless (adj.): Cruel.
• monetary (adj.): Financial.
• neology (n.): The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.
• oculist (n.): One versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye.
• overhang (n.): A portion of a structure which projects or hangs over.
• peccable (adj.): Capable of sinning.
• pervasion (n.): The state of spreading through every part.
• polygamy (n.): the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once.
• prescience (n.): Knowledge of events before they take place.
• protege (n.): One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person.;
• ravage (v.): To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
• rejuvenescence (n.): A renewal of youth.
• retrograde (v.): To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
• secant (adj.): Cutting, especially into two parts.
• slothful (adj.): Lazy.
• suave (adj.): Smooth and pleasant in manner.
• symphony (n.): A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
• torturous (adj.): Marked by extreme suffering.
• unanimous (adj.): Sharing the same views or sentiments.
• vegetative (adj.): Pertaining to the process of plant-life.
• wearisome (adj.): Fatiguing.

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.