SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/22/2010

Here is today's word list:

• acquaint (v.): To make familiar or conversant.
• alienation (n.): Estrangement.
• anteroom (n.): A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
• asperity (n.): Harshness or roughness of temper.
• beatitude (n.): Any state of great happiness.
• brandish (v.): To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear.
• carnivorous (adj.): Eating or living on flesh.
• collapsible (adj.): That may or can collapse.
• congenial (adj.): Having kindred character or tastes.
• copious (adj.): Plenteous.
• death's-head (n.): A human skull as a symbol of death.
• deplete (v.): To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste.
• disappoint (v.): To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of.
• diverse (adj.): Capable of various forms.
• egress (n.): Any place of exit.
• Epicurean (adj.): Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite.
• exonerate (v.): To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame.
• fetus (n.): The young in the womb or in the egg.
• fraternal (adj.): Brotherly.
• gnash (v.): To grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage.
• hibernal (adj.): Pertaining to winter.
• immortalize (v.): To cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time.
• incompatible (adj.): Discordant.
• inject (v.): To introduce, as a fluid, by injection.;
• intrigue (n.): A plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways.
• junta (n.): A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government.
• lifetime (n.): The time that life continues.
• malady (n.): Any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one.
• metronome (n.): An instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music.
• monsieur (n.): A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir.
• nit (n.): The egg of a louse or some other insect.
• ominous (adj.): Portentous.
• overweight (n.): Preponderance.
• peerage (n.): The nobility.
• phenomenal (adj.): Extraordinary or marvelous.
• portent (n.): Anything that indicates what is to happen.;
• prevalent (adj.): Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
• proviso (n.): A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.
• recapitulate (v.): To repeat again the principal points of.
• remission (n.): Temporary diminution of a disease.
• rhetoric (n.): The art of discourse.
• seduce (v.): To entice to surrender chastity.
• soluble (adj.): Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid.
• subordinate (adj.): Belonging to an inferior order in a classification.;
• tangent (adj.): Touching.
• transfer (v.): To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another.
• undergarment (n.): A garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments.
• veracious (adj.): Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
• wintry (adj.): Lacking warmth of manner.

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.