SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/15/2010

Here is today's word list:

• achromatic (adj.): Colorless,
• alder (n.): Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
• antechamber (n.): A waiting room for those who seek audience.
• ascension (n.): The act of rising.
• baton (n.): An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
• botany (n.): The science that treats of plants.
• carcass (n.): The dead body of an animal.
• cohesion (n.): Consistency.
• confluent (n.): A stream that unites with another.
• conveyance (n.): That by which anything is transported.
• Darwinism (n.): The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms.
• denominator (n.): Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided.
• diplomacy (n.): Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters.
• distrainor (n.): One who subjects a person to distress.
• effuse (v.): To pour forth.
• entreaty (n.): An earnest request.
• exhilarate (v.): To fill with high or cheerful spirits.
• ferocity (n.): Savageness.
• foursome (adj.): Consisting of four.
• glimmer (n.): A faint, wavering, unsteady light.
• heterogeneity (n.): Unlikeness of constituent parts.
• immersion (n.): The act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid.
• incite (v.): To rouse to a particular action.;
• inhibit (v.): To hold back or in.;
• intoxicant (n.): Anything that unduly exhilarates or excites.
• judicious (adj.): Prudent.
• licentious (adj.): Wanton.;
• magnitude (n.): Importance.
• metaphysician (n.): One skilled in metaphysics.
• monologue (n.): A story or drama told or performed by one person.;
• neutral (adj.): Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants.
• officiate (v.): To act as an officer or leader.
• oversee (v.): To superintend.
• pedant (n.): A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
• pestilential (adj.): having the nature of or breeding pestilence.
• pompous (adj.): Marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
• presumption (n.): That which may be logically assumed to be true until disproved.
• protuberance (n.): Something that swells out from a surrounding surface.
• rearrange (v.): To arrange again or in a different order.
• relish (v.): To like the taste or savor of.
• revert (v.): To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
• secretary (n.): One who attends to correspondence, keeps records. or does other writing for others.
• solder (n.): A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins.
• submarine (adj.): Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea.
• tacit (adj.): Understood.
• transact (v.): To do business.
• unconscionable (adj.): Ridiculously or unjustly excessive.
• venerable (adj.): Meriting or commanding high esteem.
• whet (v.): To make more keen or eager.

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.