Thursday, December 10, 2009

SAT Example Sentences

In the comments section of this post, I have put the example sentences for week 5's vocabulary list. They should help you study for the final exam.
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Week 5 SAT WORDS

1. Brevity- the quality or state of being brief in duration (n.)
He did not receive full points on his essay because of the brevity of his response.

2. Expedient: appropriate to a purpose; convenient, speedy (adj.)
Mr. Northe always tries to find the most expedient route from one place to another when he drives.

3. Transient: passing quickly in time or space (adj.)
Your time in high school is transient, so you should enjoy every moment.
4. Augment: to make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity; to supplement (v.)
It’s always best to augment your vocabulary through reading a variety of books about a variety of subjects.

5. Bolster: to hearten, support, or prop up (v.)
The hot chocolate and great conversation really bolstered her spirits and she didn’t feel so depressed after that.

6. Burgeon: to grow and flourish (v.)
When I saw him lock eyes with her, I could tell that his interest in her was burgeoning.

7. Copious: plentiful, having a large quantity (adj.)
Miss Jones requires her students to take a copious amount of notes in her class.

8. Distend: to swell out or expand from internal pressure, as when overly full (v.)
After Thanksgiving dinner, his stomach was so distended that he looked pregnant!

9. Grandiose: great in scope or intent; grand (adj.)
It is fine to have a grandiose dream as long as you have the work ethic to carry it out.

10. Prodigious: enormous (adj.)
In the past two years, the students at H.I.S. have baked a prodigious amount of cookies.

11. Profundity: great depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning (n.)
He never tires of reading the Iliad because he has few other books that can match its profundity.

12. Redouble: to make twice as great, to double (v.)
My excitement about being with my sister was redoubled when she told me that she would be staying with me for two months before going to Germany.

13. Scintillating: brilliant (adj.)
I love the way that Bruce plays the guitar because it’s truly scintillating.

14. Averse: strongly disinclined (adj.)
She was averse to studying, so her grades were very poor.

15. Conspicuous: easy to notice, obvious (adj.)
Her crush on him was conspicuous, so soon everybody was teasing her about it.

16. Demure: modest and reserved (adj.)
It was hard for him to know whether she reciprocated his feelings because she was very demure and shy.

17. Diffidence: timidity or shyness (n.)
When he worked with the master chef, he couldn’t help but be filled with diffidence.

18. Docile: Submissive to instruction, willing to be taught (adj.)
I loved teaching her because she was so docile and curious about everything.

19. Innocuous: having no adverse effect, harmless (adj.)
My sisters let their children watch television because they believe it is innocuous, but I disagree.

20. Placid: calm or quiet; undisturbed (adj.)
The water was placid and gave no hint of the danger lurking beneath.

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21. Quiescent: quiet, still, or at rest; inactive (adj.)
After a long day of hard work, they both longed for a quiescent evening.

22. Concord: agreement (n.)
The nations were able to establish a concord that increased trade.

23. Concur: to agree (v.)
When one of the students complained that there was too much homework to do, many of his classmates concurred.

24. Dogmatic: stubbornly attached to insufficiently proven belief (adj.)
My two year old nephew remains dogmatic about the existence of Santa even though we have tried to tell him several times that Santa does not exist.

25. Fastidious: carefully attentive to detail, difficult to please (adj.)
Her perfectly clean and perfectly matched outfit revealed her fastidious nature.

26. Intransigence: refusal to moderate a position or to compromise (n.)
Many people found him difficult to work for because of his intransigence.

27. Jocular: characterized by or given to joking (adj.)
I enjoyed spending time with him because he was very jocular and he often made me laugh.

28. Meticulous: extremely careful and precise (adj.)
It is very important for surgeons to be meticulous when they perform their operations.

29. Affable: easy going, friendly (adj.)
Because she is very affable, she has many friends.

30. Alacrity: promptness in response; cheerful readiness; eagerness (n.)
Teachers appreciate students who obey them with alacrity.

31. Amiable: friendly, agreeable, good natured (adj.)
Being amiable can make your relationships much simpler and much less likely to be filled with drama.

32. Benign: kind and gentle (adj.)
The soldier was comforted by the benign expression of his nurse.

33. Sanguine: cheerfully confident; optimistic (adj.)
Although she knew that the test would be difficult, she felt sanguine about it.

34. Belligerent: eager to fight, hostile or aggressive (adj.)
The students were nervous to play against the team from Busan because they had heard that all the team members were very belligerent.

35. Byzantine: extremely complicated or devious (adj.)
Many people distrust the new American health care plan because they believe it is byzantine.

36. Cantankerous: ill tempered and quarrelsome, disagreeable (adj.)
As he got older, he became more and more cantankerous and as a result, few liked to spend time with him.

37. Contentious: quarrelsome (adj.)
When they were young, they had a very contentious relationship, but as they aged, things settled down and they got along much better.

38. Deleterious: having a harmful effect (adj.)
My lack of sleep has been really deleterious to everything I try to do in the day.

39. Exacerbate: to increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of, aggravate (v.)
My distrust and frustration were exacerbated when I realized that he had been lying
to me.

40. Flippant: disrespectfully humorous or casual (adj.)
He was deeply hurt by her flippant response to his profession of love.

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Miss Jones said...

41. Insolent: insulting manner or speech (adj.)
His insolent attitude revealed his arrogance.

42. Nefarious: flagrantly wicked, vicious (adj.)
The Emperor Caligula is famous for his nefarious treatment of the Roman citizens—it is said that he used to have women and babies thrown over cliffs to entertain himself as he ate.

43. Pernicious: extremely or irrevocably harmful; deadly (adj.)
Many people believe that our current dependence upon fossil fuels is pernicious to the environment.

44. Rancorous: marked by bitter, deep seated ill will (adj.)
The more she got to know him, the more rancorous her feelings became towards him.

45. Repugnant: arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive (adj.)
His love of fame and money was repugnant to me.

46. Tawdry: gaudy and cheap (adj.)
I didn’t want her to buy the dress because I thought it looked tawdry.

47. Arboreal: relating to or resembling a tree or trees (adj.)
It is important to protect our arboreal resources so that we do not have to import wood from other nations.


48. Invocation: a call (usually upon a higher power) for assistance support, or inspiration (n.)
The Iliad begins with an invocation of the Muse. Homer says ‘Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’s son Achilleus….’

49. Stratify: to layer or separate into layers (v.)
It is very harmful to a society when the rich and the poor become stratified social classes.

50. Variegated: having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors, varicolored (adj.)
The variegated design on the walls made the room bright and cheerful.

51. Verdant: green with vegetation (adj.)
After the rainy season, the fields became verdant and the villagers looked forward to a bountiful harvest.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

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