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SAT WORDS 4
New SAT Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fallacious | incorrect, misleading (Emily offered me cigarettes on the fallacious asumption that I smoked) |
| Fastidious | meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards (Mark is so fastidious that he never finishes a project because it always seems imperfect t him) |
| Fatuous | silly, foolish (he considered himself a serious poet, but in truth, he only writes fatuous limericks) |
| Fecund | fruitful, fertile (the fecund tree bore enough apples to last us through the entire season) |
| Feral | wild, savage (that beast looks so feral that I would fear being alone with it) |
| Fetid | having a foul odor (I can tell from the fetid smell of your refrigerator that your milk has spoiled) |
| Florid | flowery, ornate (the writer's florid prose belongs on a sentimental hallmark card) |
| Fractious | troublesome or irritable(although the child insisted he wasn't tired, his fractious behavior convinced everyone present that it was time to put him to bed) |
| Garrulous | talkative, wordy (some talk-show hosts are so garrulous that their guests can't get a word in edgewise) |
| Grandiloquence | lofty, pompous language (Elly thought her grandiloquence language would make her sound smart but neither the teacher nor the students bought it) |
| Gregarious | drawn to the company of others, sociable (well, if you're not gregarious, I don't know why you would want to go to a singles party) |
| Hackeneyed | unoriginal, trite ( a girl can only hear "I love you" so many times before it begins to sound hackneyed and meaningless) |
| Harangue | 1. a ranting speech (everyone had heard the teacher's harangue about gun chewing in class before) 2. to give such a speech (but this time, the teacher harangued the class about the importance of brushing your teeth after chewing gum) |
| Hapless | unlucky (my poor, hapless family never seems to pick a sunny week to go on vacation) |
| Hegemony | domination over others (Britain's hegemony over its colonies was threatened once nationalist sentiment began to spread around the world) |
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