SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/10/2010

Here is today's word list:

• acerbity (n.): Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
• album (n.): A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
• antagonism (n.): Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons.
• artful (adj.): Characterized by craft or cunning.
• barring (prep. ): Apart from.
• bore (v.): To weary by tediousness or dullness.
• capitulate (v.): To surrender or stipulate terms.
• coercive (adj.): Serving or tending to force.
• confident (adj.): Assured.
• convergent (adj.): Tending to one point.
• cynical (adj.): Exhibiting moral skepticism.
• dendroid (adj.): Like a tree.
• diligence (n.): Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken.;
• distillation (n.): Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile.
• efflorescence (n.): The state of being flowery, or a flowery appearance.
• enthuse (v.): To yield to or display intense and rapturous feeling.
• exhale (v.): To breathe forth.
• felonious (adj.): Showing criminal or evil purpose.
• forte (n.): A strong point.
• giver (n.): One who gives, in any sense.
• hernia (n.): Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position.;
• immaterial (adj.): Of no essential consequence.
• incidentally (adv.): Without intention.;
• ingratiate (v.): To win confidence or good graces for oneself.
• intimacy (n.): Close or confidential friendship.
• jubilation (n.): Exultation.;
• lexicon (n.): A dictionary.
• magnate (n.): A person of rank or importance.
• metal (n.): An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous.
• monocracy (n.): Government by a single person.;
• nettle (v.): To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in.;
• odium (n.): A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust.
• overpay (v.): To pay or reward in excess.
• pecuniary (adj.): Consisting of money.
• perversity (n.): Wickedness.
• polysyllable (adj.): Having several syllables, especially more than three syllables.
• prescription (n.): An authoritative direction.;
• protoplasm (n.): The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.
• reactionary (adj.): Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction.;
• relevant (adj.): Bearing upon the matter in hand.
• reunite (v.): To unite or join again, as after separation.;
• seclusion (n.): Solitude.
• socialist (adj.): One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital.
• subjacent (adj.): Situated directly underneath.
• synod (n.): An ecclesiastical council.
• trammel (n.): An impediment.
• unbecoming (adj.): Unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings.
• venal (adj.): Mercenary, corrupt.
• well-to-do (adj.): In prosperous circumstances.

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.