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First set of 50 hot words for the SAT.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Brevity (brev-ih-tee) | n. Briefness or conciseness in speech or writing |
| Concise (cun-sise) | adj. using few words in speaking or writing |
| Laconic (luh-cahn-ik) | adj. using few words in speech |
| Pithy (pith-ie) | adj. brief and full of meaning and substance; concise |
| Quiescent (kwy-eh-sunt) | adj. quiet; still; inactive |
| Reticent (ret-ih-sunt) | adj. not talking much; reserved |
| Succinct (suk-sinkt) | adj. clearly and briefly stated ;concuse |
| Taciturn (tas-ih-turn) | adj. silent;s parring of words; close-mouthed |
| Terse (turs) | adj. using only the words that are needed to make the point; very concise, sometimes to the point of rudeness |
| Bombastic (bom-bas-tic) | adj. using language in a pompous, showy way; speaking to impress others |
| Circumlocution (sir-kum-low-q-shun) | n. speaking in circles; round-about speech |
| Colloquial (kuh-low-kwee-ul) | adj. pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational |
| Diffuse (dih-fews) | adj. spread out, not concise; wordy |
| Digress (die-gres) | vb. to wander off from the subject or topic spoken about |
| Eloquence (eh-low-kwens) | n, artful ease with speaking; speech that can influence peoples feelings |
| Garrulous (gar-u-lus) | adj. talkative; loquacious |
| Loquacious (lo-kway-shus) | adj. tending to talk a great deal; talkative |
| Grandiloquent (grand-dih-luh-kwent) | adj. using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others |
| Prattle (pra-tl) | vb. to speak on an on in senseless and silly manner; to talk foolishly |
| Ramble (ram-bul) | vb. to talk on and on pointlessly, without clear direction |
| Rant (rant) | vb. to talk very loudly, even wildly; rave |
| Rhetorical (re-tor-uh-kul) | adj. relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression |
| Verbose (vur-bose) | adj. using too many words; wordy; long winded |
| Voluble (vol-you-bul) | adj. talking in a great deal with ease; glib |
| Arrogant (er-uh-gunt) | adj. overbearing; proud; haughty |
| Braggart (bra-gurt) | n. one who boasts a great deal |
| Complacent (kum-play-snt) | adj. self-satisfied; smug |
| Contemptuous (kun-temp- choo-us) | adj. lacking respect; scornful |
| Disdainful (dis-dane-ful) | adj. full of bitter scorn and pride; aloof |
| Egotistical (ee-guh-tis-tih-kul) | adj. excessively self-absorbed; very concieted |
| Haughty (haw-tee) | adj. having great pride in oneself and dislike for others |
| Insolent (in-suh-lunt) | adj. boldly disrespectful in speech or behavior; rude |
| Narcissistic (nar-suh-sis-tik) | adj. having to do with extreme self-adoration and a feeling of superiority to everyone |
| Ostentatious (ahs-tun-tay-shus) | adj. having to do with showing off; pretentious |
| Presumptuous (prih-zum-choo-us) | adj. too forward or bold; over stepping proper bounds |
| Pretentious (pri-ten-shus) | adj. claiming or pretending increased imortance; ostentatious; affectedly grand |
| Supercilious (soo-pur-sih-lee-us) | adj. looking down on others; proud or scornful |
| Swagger (swa-gur) | vb. to walk around in a proud, showy manner; to boast in a loud manner |
| Banal (buh-nal) | adj. dull or stale because of overuse;trite; hackneyed |
| Cliche (klee-shay) | n. an idea or expression that has become stale due to overuse |
| Derivative (diy-rih-vuh-tiv) | adj. unoriginal; taken from something already existing |
| Hackneyed (hak-need) | adj. made commonplace by overuse; trite n.hack, one who copies or intimates the work of others |
| Insipid (in-sih-pud) | adj. lacking flavor or taste; unexciting |
| Lackluster (lak-luhs-ter) | adj. lacking vitality, energy, or brightness; boring |
| Mundane (muhn-dayn) | adj. commonplace; ordinary |
| Platitude (pla-tuh-tood) | n. quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if it were original |
| Prosaic (pro-say-ik) | adj. dull; commonplace |
| Trite (trite) | adj. unoriginal and stale due to overuse |
| Vapid (va-pid) | adj. lacking freshness and zest; flat; stale |
| Allay (uh-lay) | vb. to lessen fear; to calm; to relieve pain |
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