SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/18/2010

Here is today's word list:

• acknowledge (v.): To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of.
• alias (n.): An assumed name.
• antemeridian (adj.): Before noon.;
• ascribe (v.): To assign as a quality or attribute.
• batter (n.): A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery.
• bowler (n.): In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
• caret (n.): A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
• coincidence (n.): A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident.
• conformation (n.): General structure, form, or outline.
• convolve (v.): To move with a circling or winding motion.;
• dauntless (adj.): Fearless.
• denounce (v.): To point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium.
• diplomatist (n.): One remarkable for tact and shrewd management.
• disunion (n.): Separation of relations or interests.
• egoist (n.): One who advocates or practices egoism.
• entwine (v.): To interweave.
• exigent (adj.): Urgent.
• fervor (n.): Ardor or intensity of feeling.
• frailty (n.): Liability to be broken or destroyed.
• globular (adj.): Spherical.
• hexangular (adj.): Having six angles.
• imminence (n.): Impending evil or danger.
• incoherence (n.): Want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc.
• inhume (v.): To place in the earth, as a dead body.
• intramural (adj.): Situated within the walls of a city.
• jugular (adj.): Pertaining to the throat.
• lien (n.): A legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge.
• maintain (v.): To hold or preserve in any particular state or condition.;
• metempsychosis (n.): Transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast.
• monosyllable (n.): A word of one syllable.
• niggardly (adj.): Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use)
• ogre (n.): A demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings.
• overstride (v.): To step beyond.
• pedestrian (n.): One who journeys on foot.
• petulance (n.): The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant.
• pontiff (n.): The Pope.
• pretentious (adj.): Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
• proverb (n.): A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience.
• rebuff (n.): A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
• remembrance (n.): Recollection.;
• revise (v.): To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes.
• sedentary (adj.): Involving or requiring much sitting.
• solicitor (n.): One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney.
• submersible (adj.): Capable of being put underwater.
• tact (n.): Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
• transcendent (adj.): Surpassing.
• unctuous (adj.): Oily.
• venial (adj.): That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin.;
• wholly (adv.): Completely.

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.