SAT/ACT Vocabulary List for 09/29/2010

Here is today's word list:

• acquittance (n.): Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.
• alley (n.): A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
• anticlimax (n.): A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.
• assassination (n.): Murderer, as by secret assault or treachery.
• befog (v.): To confuse.
• breaker (n.): One who trains horses, dogs, etc.
• casual (adj.): Accidental, by chance.
• collision (n.): Violent contact.
• conjugate (adj.): Joined together in pairs.
• corporal (adj.): Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
• deciliter (n.): A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters.
• deposition (n.): Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court.
• disburden (v.): To disencumber.
• divinity (n.): The quality or character of being godlike.
• element (n.): A component or essential part.
• epiphany (n.): Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity.
• expansion (n.): Increase of amount, size, scope, or the like.
• fidelity (n.): Loyalty.
• frequency (n.): The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space.
• gradation (n.): A step, degree, rank, or relative position in an order or series.
• hindrance (n.): An obstacle.
• impassable (adj.): That cannot be passed through or over.
• incongruous (adj.): Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion.;
• innovate (v.): To introduce or strive to introduce new things.
• introversion (n.): The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally.
• juvenile (adj.): Characteristic of youth.
• liking (n.): Fondness.
• malevolent (adj.): Wishing evil to others.
• microphone (n.): An apparatus for magnifying faint sounds.
• moratorium (n.): An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily.
• nominal (adj.): Trivial.
• onerous (adj.): Burdensome or oppressive.
• palatial (adj.): Magnificent.
• pendant (n.): Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use.
• philharmonic (adj.): Fond of music.
• possession (n.): The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
• primer (n.): An elementary reading-book for children.;
• prudery (n.): An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
• reciprocal (adj.): Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
• Renaissance (n.): The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
• righteousness (n.): Rectitude.
• selective (adj.): Having the power of choice.
• sonnet (n.): A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
• substantive (adj.): Solid.
• taut (adj.): Stretched tight.
• transfusible (adj.): Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
• undermine (v.): To subvert in an underhand way.
• verify (v.): To prove to be true, exact, or accurate.
• wizen (v.): To become or cause to become withered or dry.

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.