SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/20/2010

Here is today's word list:

• acme (n.): The highest point, or summit.
• alienable (adj.): Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
• antenatal (adj.): Occurring or existing before birth.
• ashen (adj.): Pale.
• bawl (v.): To proclaim by outcry.
• brae (n.): Hillside.
• carnage (n.): Massacre.
• collaborate (v.): To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits.
• confront (v.): To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles.
• convulse (v.): To cause spasms in.;
• dead-heat (n.): A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner.
• denude (v.): To strip the covering from.
• disallow (v.): To withhold permission or sanction.;
• divagation (n.): Digression.;
• egotist (n.): One given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences.
• epic (n.): A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc.
• exit (n.): A way or passage out.
• festive (adj.): Merry.
• frankincense (n.): A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes.
• glutinous (adj.): Sticky.
• hexagon (n.): A figure with six angles.
• immiscible (adj.): Separating, as oil and water.
• incombustible (adj.): That can not be burned.
• iniquity (n.): Gross wrong or injustice.
• intricacy (n.): Perplexity.
• junction (n.): The condition of being joined.
• lifelike (adj.): Realistic.
• maize (n.): Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn.;
• metonymy (n.): A figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes.
• monotonous (adj.): Unchanging and tedious.
• nil (n.): Nothing
• olfactory (adj.): of or pertaining to the sense of smell.
• overtone (n.): A harmonic.
• pedigree (n.): One's line of ancestors.
• pharmacopoeia (n.): A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists.
• populous (adj.): Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory.
• pretext (n.): A fictitious reason or motive.
• providential (adj.): Effected by divine guidance.
• rebut (v.): To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer.
• reminiscent (adj.): Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
• revoke (v.): To rescind.
• sedition (n.): Conduct directed against public order and the tranquility of the state.
• soliloquy (n.): A monologue.
• submission (n.): A yielding to the power or authority of another.
• tactics (n.): Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
• transcribe (v.): To write over again (something already written)
• undercharge (v.): To make an inadequate charge for.
• venom (n.): The poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete.
• wile (n.): An act or a means of cunning deception.

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.