180 SAT/ACT WORDS (Vocabulary University)
Instructions:
- Define each word.
- Write one sentence for each word.
- For each word, create two synonyms & one antonym.
Student should visit Vocabulary.com and complete the online activities. Then print out the completed activities and submit to teacher.
Project: Using all of the vocabulary words from the assigned session, create one of the following:
- Poem/poems
- Short story
- Essay
- Rap
- A project or report
Lesson #1: abstract, aesthetic, benevolent, capricious, complacent, conciliatory, devious, diligent, discernible, dogmatic, eccentric, fallacious, indifferent, inquisitive, meticulous, pertinent, plausible, reticent
Lesson #2: candid, inevitable, lethargy, morose, novice, obscure, ostentatious, precocious, prevaricate, querulous, quiescent, repose, repudiate, soporific, spontaneous, squander, theoretical, virulent
Lesson #3: apathy, disdain, diverse, enigma, futile, gratuitous, hackneyed, incessant, insidious, integrity, jocular, kindle, ludicrous, provocative, reclusive, reverence, scrutinize, superficial
Lesson #4: affinity, clairvoyant, emulate, expedite, impetuous, innocuous, mundane, penitent, propensity, regressive, resilient, sedentary, succinct, terse, ubiquitous, vindictive, wanton, zenith
Lesson #5: ramification, rapacious, recalcitrant, recant, recrimination, redolent, redundant, refutable, relegate, relinquish, remonstrate, reparation, replenish, reprehensible, requisite, resolute, rigorous, rudimentary
Lesson #6: acumen, chicanery, deleterious, epiphany, facetious, homogeneous, incognito, kinetic, loquacious, lugubrious, nihilism, obsequious, paradigm, precipitous, sanguine, unctuous, vacuous, xenophile
Lesson #7: acrimonious, alacrity, conjecture, conspicuous, deviate, disparage, erudite, exonerate, extricate, incorrigible, indolent, judicious, mitigate, ostensible, palpable, pandemonium, rectify, surreptitious
Lesson #8: abject, affluence, analogous, arbitrary, cognizant, compulsory, destitute, disseminate, fortuitous, impeccable, impervious, insatiable, oscillate, prerogative, stringent, truncate, unobtrusive, unscrupulous
Lesson #9 (derived from "foreign", not Latin or Greek, words): Aficionado, Alchemy, Ambiance, Avatar, Bourgeois, Chaparral, Cognoscente, Connoisseur, Dilettante, Imbroglio, Juggernaut, Junta, Malaise, Nirvana, Peccadillo, Raconteur, Vignette, Virtuoso
Lesson #10 (derived from Science/Biology BUG-related words): embryonic, entomologist, indefatigable, indigenous, industrious, iridescent, insatiable, insecticide, larvae, metamorphosis, nemesis, nocturnal, pollinate, proboscis, quarantine, subterranean, trepidation, ubiquitous
Lesson #11: abstinence, affectation, alkaline, auspices, boreal, brogue, carnage, clathrate, cryptic, draconian, expatriate, feckless, fez, fissionable, founder, hegemony, insolvency, inviolable, lattice, litigious, malleable, myriad, oxymoron, pelagic, polity, postmodern, pretext, proliferation, rapprochement, reactionary, relegate, resonate, revitalize, substrate, template
Lesson #12: apocalypse, apostate, autonomy, chatelaine, cognitive, denigrate, dilettante, disquisition, efficacy, elan, facile, fiasco, gyre, hermeneutics, indigenous, inhibitory, inscrutable, insurgency, interstices, littoral, manifestation, manse, oblique, pas de deux, Pentecostal, philander, pietism, pique, placebo, promulgate, pseudonym, renounce, servile, sophistry, stymie, subversion, wrought
Works Cited
Vocabulary University. "Vocabulary.com." 2009. Vocabulary University Top 180 SAT-ACT Words. 1 June 2009 <http://www.vocabulary.com/top144satwords.html>.
