Vocabulary Directions
Go to: www.vocabtest.com (or get the link from our class website at:
mrsnicolehamilton.weebly.com)
Click on “Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT – Book One”
Click on Lesson 10. (We will study one lesson per week, Lesson 10-15)
We will study 15 words per week. You can learn and practice the words by doing the different
exercises on the website. I suggest you start by learning the definitions, so go to “Learning
Definitions” and/or “Reverse Definitions” first. Note that if you get a question wrong, it asks you
the question again later until you get it right! At the end it will show you how many you got
right/wrong, etc. It also shows you how most students who take this test do. It asks at the bottom if
you want to email the results to anyone – you may want to send them to yourself – it is a list of the
words and definitions! But DO NOT send these to me. You may also choose to print this page out
as it has the entire list of words for the week with the definitions. When you are done looking at the
results, you can click on “Vocab. Test Main” at the top and it will bring you back to the main screen
so you can try another test, exercise, or game.
Every Friday we will have a quiz on the 15 words for that week. There will be a test on all 45 words
from lessons 10-12 on the Friday of Week 4. Then we will spend three weeks on lessons 13-15 and
have a test on all 45 words from lessons 13-15 on week 8. Then we are done studying SAT
Vocabulary for the semester. Here is what you must learn and when (note that these quiz/test dates
are subject to change):
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Week one: Lesson 10 (affiliate – prevaricate) – Quiz on Friday Aug. 21
Week two: Lesson 11 (carp – queue) – Quiz on Friday Aug. 28
Week three: Lesson 12 (anthropomorphic – rancid) – Quiz on Friday Sep. 4
Week four: Lesson 10-12 review (all 45 words) – Test on Friday Sep. 11
Week five: Lesson 13 (anachronism – nemesis) – Quiz on Friday Sep. 18
Week six: Lesson 14 (alacrity – pallid) – Quiz on Friday Sep. 25
Week seven: Lesson 15 (adjunct – penchant) – Quiz on Friday Oct. 2
Week eight: Lesson 13-15 review (all 45 words) – Test on Friday Oct. 9
For each test, you must know:
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The definitions of each word
The part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, or adverb)
How to use the word in a sentence
Synonyms
Antonyms
Where the stress mark is in a word
How to spell the word
(note: there are no spelling questions on the tests, just on the quizzes).
This is a lot to learn in one week! You must study at home.
SAT Vocabulary Words
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affiliate
bane
berate
blatant
calumny
dawdle
desolate
fallible
fawn
filch
garble
minion
neophyte
pacify
prevaricate
Lesson 10
Lesson 11
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carp
emissary
facade
flagrant
fracas
futile
gait
genesis
immaculate
kindred
lacerate
nefarious
patrician
query
queue
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Lesson 12
anthropomorphic
aplomb
beneficiary
careen
catholic
deluge
eerie
fester
guile
havoc
languish
martial
modicum
pall
rancid
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Lesson 13
anachronism
defunct
denigrate
effusive
embroil
envisage
gape
haughty
holocaust
humane
impertinent
lackey
lament
lethal
nemesis
Lesson 14
alacrity
benediction
carnage
catalyst
deify
epitaph
foible
frivolous
harp
impel
impetuous
jargon
judicious
lateral
pallid
Lesson 15
adjunct
chicanery
debonair
deplete
equivocal
farcical
feisty
filial
genealogy
gull
impervious
macabre
mitigate
nadir
penchant