SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/09/2010

Here is today's word list:

• accustom (v.): To make familiar by use.
• albino (n.): A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
• anonymous (adj.): Of unknown authorship.
• Artesian well (n.): A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
• barometer (n.): An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.
• boorish (adj.): Rude.
• capillary (n.): A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
• coercion (n.): Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
• confidence (n.): The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another.
• converge (v.): To cause to incline and approach nearer together.
• cygnet (n.): A young swan.;
• demurrage (n.): the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing.
• dilettante (n.): A superficial amateur.
• distill (v.): To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation.;
• efficient (adj.): Having and exercising the power to produce effects or results.
• enthrone (v.): To invest with sovereign power.
• exert (v.): To make an effort.
• felon (n.): A criminal or depraved person.;
• forswear (v.): To renounce upon oath.
• gigantic (adj.): Tremendous.
• heritage (n.): Birthright.
• immaculate (adj.): Without spot or blemish.
• incident (n.): A happening in general, especially one of little importance.
• ingraft (v.): To set or implant deeply and firmly.
• intestine (n.): That part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus.
• jovial (adj.): Merry.
• lexicography (n.): The making of dictionaries.
• magnanimous (adj.): Generous in treating or judging others.
• messieurs (n.): pl. Gentlemen.;
• monitory (n.): Admonition or warning.
• nestling (adj.): Recently hatched.
• odious (adj.): Hateful.
• overpass (v.): To pass across or over, as a river.
• pectoral (adj.): Pertaining to the breast or thorax.
• perversion (n.): Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose.
• polyhedron (n.): A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four.
• prescriptible (adj.): Derived from authoritative direction.;
• protocol (n.): A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty.
• reaction (n.): Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflation.;
• relent (v.): To yield.
• retrospective (adj.): Looking back on the past.
• seclude (v.): To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others.
• socialism (n.): A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
• subconscious (adj.): Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception.;
• syneresis (n.): The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
• trajectory (n.): The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
• unbearable (adj.): Unendurable.
• velvety (adj.): Marked by lightness and softness.
• well-doer (n.): A performer of moral and social duties.

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.