SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/21/2010

Here is today's word list:

• acoustic (adj.): Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
• alienate (v.): To cause to turn away.
• anterior (adj.): Prior.
• askance (adv.): With a side or indirect glance or meaning.
• beatify (v.): To make supremely happy.
• braggart (n.): A vain boaster.
• carnal (adj.): Sensual.
• collapse (v.): To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail.
• congeal (v.): To coagulate.
• convulsion (n.): A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body.
• dearth (n.): Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.
• denunciation (n.): The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment.
• disappear (v.): To cease to exist, either actually or for the time being.
• divergent (adj.): Tending in different directions.
• egregious (adj.): Extreme.
• epicure (n.): One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking.
• exodus (n.): A going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people.
• fete (n.): A festival or feast.
• frantic (adj.): Frenzied.
• gluttonous (adj.): Given to excess in eating.
• hiatus (n.): A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting.
• immoral (adj.): Habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices.
• incomparable (adj.): Matchless.
• initiate (v.): To perform the first act or rite.
• intricate (adj.): Difficult to follow or understand.
• juncture (n.): An articulation, joint, or seam.
• lifelong (adj.): Lasting or continuous through life.
• makeup (n.): The arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed.
• metric (adj.): Relating to measurement.
• monotony (n.): A lack of variety.
• nimble (adj.): Light and quick in motion or action.;
• olive-branch (n.): A branch of the olive-tree, as an emblem of peace.
• overture (n.): An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
• peddler (n.): One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
• pharmacy (n.): The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
• portend (v.): To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs.
• prevalence (n.): Frequency.
• provincial (adj.): Uncultured in thought and manner.
• recant (v.): To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
• remiss (adj.): Negligent.
• rhapsody (n.): Rapt or rapturous utterance.
• seditious (adj.): Promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquility of the state.
• solstice (n.): The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination.;
• submittal (n.): The act of submitting.
• tangency (n.): The state of touching.
• transcript (n.): A copy made directly from an original.
• underexposed (adj.): Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography.
• venous (adj.): Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins.
• winsome (adj.): Attractive.

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.