SAT Vocabulary Activities
SAT Vocabulary Quizzes will occur on Friday every two weeks. Other vocabulary from the novel study
may be incorporated depending on your unit of study. During the two weeks prior to the quiz, students
will complete activities to help them truly learn the words. Although the research varies, most studies
conclude that a person must be exposed to a word 6 times for a word to become part of their reading
comprehension, 13-16 times for use in their daily speech and a whooping 24 times to become part of
their writing vocabulary.
Activities will vary depending on time and student acquisition of the SAT words.
ACTIVITIES MAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
_______`1. PICTURE DISPLAY. Cut out a pictorial representation of TWO vocabulary words and NEATLY
glue it to construction paper. Write the word on the front, along with THREE synonyms. Write a
sentence containing the word on the back.
_______2. Synonym worksheet – we supply the synonyms and you supply the vocab word.
_______3. WORDO – Bingo with the vocab words. We supply the definition; you find the word mark out
on your BINGO board. When you win, you yell WORDO!
______4. Antonym worksheet.
______5. Sentence completion worksheet
______6. Fly Swatter Game. All the words are on the board. Forming 2 teams, students run to the board
with the fly swatter and slap the correct word.
______7. Write 20 sentences using the vocabulary words. Subject matter will vary.
______8. Play “Eggspert” – like jeopardy, students use clickers to be the first to come up with the
correct word quickly.
______9. Making flashcards
______10. SLAP – students pit off against each other in twos. Put the flashcards word up. As teacher
calls out the definition, the first student to pick up the correct word, keeps it.
______11. Find paragraphs with the words in print. Cut out and highlight.
______12. Demonstrate words by acting it out.
______13. Other exercises TBD.
Aug. 22 – Sept. 21
Sept. 22 – Oct. 25
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Adulterate
Ambidextrous
Augment
Bereft
Deploy
Dour
Fortitude
Gape
Gibe
Guise
Insidious
Intimation
Opulent
Pliable
Reiterate
Stolid
Tentative
Unkempt
Verbatim
Warily
1. Adroit
2. Amicable
3. Averse
4. Belligerent
5. Benevolent
6. Cursory
7. Duplicity
8. Extol
9. Feasible
10. Grimace
11. Holocaust
12. Impervious
13. Impetus
14. Jeopardy
15. Meticulous
16. Nostalgia
17. Quintessence
18. Retrogress
19. Scrutinize
20. Tepid
1. Adversary
2. Alienate
3. Artifice
4. Coerce
5.Craven
6. Culinary
7. Delete
8. Demise
9. Exhilarate
10. Fallow
11. Harass
12. Inclement
13. Muse
14. Negligible
15. Perpetuate
16. Precedent
17. Punitive
18. Redress
19. Sojourn
20. Urbane
1.Affiliated
2. Ascertain
3. Attainment
4. Bequeath
5. Cogent
6. Converge
7.Disperse
8. Esteem
9. Expunge
10. Finite
11.Invulnerable
12. Malevolent
13. Nonchalant
14. Omniscient
15.Pancea
16. Scrupulous
17. Skulk
18. Supercilious
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Altruistic
Assent
Benefactor
Chivalrous
Clemency
Dearth
Diffident
Discrepancy
Embark
Facile
Indomitable
Infallible
Plod
Pungent
Remiss
Repose
Temerity
Truculent
Unfeigned
Virulent
1.Accede
2. Brandish
3. Comprise
4. Deft
5. Destitute
6.Explcit
7. Extirpate
8. Inopportune
9. Ironic
10. Musty
11. Officious
12. Ominous
13. Pinnacle
14. Premeditated
15. Rampant
16. Solace
17. Stately
18. Supple
19. Suppress
20. Venial
Dec. 1 –Jan. 13
1. Abhor
1.Animosity
2. Amend
2. Apathy
3. Buffet
3. Apprehensive
4. Chaos
4. Commend
5. Commodious
5. Compatible
6. Corrosive
6. Condolence
7. Discern
7. Consecrate
8. Extant
8. Decrepit
9. Implicate
9. Deride
10. Inter
10.Ingenuous
11. Martinet
11.Multifarious
12. Obviate
12. Obsolete
13. Renegade
13. Omnivorous
14. Reprehensible
14. Parsimonious
15.Somber
15.Quandary
16. Squalid
16. Recalcitrant
17. Turbulent
17. Reprisal
18. Vociferous
18. Revel
19. Voluminous
19. Stultify
20. Waive
20. Suave
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Gnarled
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Inkling
Limpid
Omnipotent
Palatable
Poignant
Rancor
Sophomoric
Spontaneous
1. Acquiesce
2. Allure
3. Askew
4. Blithe
5. Contentious
6. Covet
7. Crestfallen
8. Disheveled
9. Exponent
10. Garrulous
11. Insuperable
12. Lamentable
13. Misnomer
14. Profess
15. Respite
16. Retribution
17. Sinuous
18. Sonorous
19. Vanguard
20. Wastrel
1. Allude
2. Clairvoyant
3. Conclusive
4. Disreputable
5.Endemic
6. Exemplary
7. Fathom
8. Guile
9. Integrity
10. Integrity
11. Protrude
12. Misconstrue
13. Obnoxious
14. Placate
15. Placid
16. Plagiarism
17. Potent
18. Pretext
19. Stark
20.Superficial
1.Abjure
2. Acrid
3. August
4. Callous
5. Clandestine
6. Compunction
7.Conflagration
8. Elated
9. Indelible
10. Indulgent
11.Inveterate
12. Irrelevant
13. Nocturnal
14. Platitude
15.Quell
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Antipathy
Applicable
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Duress
Exuberant
Facsimile
Imbibe
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Infinitesimal
Innocuous
Militate
Patent
Prowess
Sedate
Stentorian
Stipulate
Ultimatum
1. Alacrity
2. Alleviate
3. Antithesis
4. Appall
5. Bellicose
6. Disparage
7. Dissonant
8. Droll
9. Edict
10. Elucidate
11. Laud
12. Loll
13. Loquacious
14. Magnanimous
15. Mandatory
16. Nondescript
17. Phlegmatic
18. Rescind
19. Vivacious
20. Whet
May 1 – June 7
1. Abrasive
1. Anecdote
2. Acclimate
2. Acrimony
3. Chagrin
3. Empathy
4. Complacent
4. Camaraderie
5. Concur
5. Circuitous
6. Defamation
6. demagogue
7. Explicate
7. ephemeral
8. Fracas
8. fortuitous
9. Grotesque
9. haughty
10. Pandemonium
10. Intrepid
11. Raucous
11 perfidious
12. Receptive
12. prosaic
13. Renounce
13. paradox
14. Repress
14. resilient
15.reticent
15. redoubtable
16. Savory
16. resplendent
17. Somnolent
17. spontaneity
18. Vehement
18.Sagacity
19. Voluble
19. Surreptitious
20.Zealous
20. Tome