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SAT Vocab 23
Mrs. Hahn English 1
| Term | Definition | |
|---|---|---|
| Ephemereal | (adj) lasting a very short time. | The ephemeral bug only stayed on the leaf for 4 seconds. |
| Evanescent | (adj) tending to vanish like vapor. | The kids blew bubbles then watched as the Evanescent bubbles vanished. |
| Fleeting | (adj) short-lived. | When the fire started, people tried to get the fleeting children out of there. |
| Itinerant | (adj) traveling from place to place. | Birds are a common Itinerant creature when they travel from a tree to their nest. |
| Nomadic | (adj) wandering. | "Today I saw this Nomadic kid, he was just walking around; confused." Jamie said. |
| Peripatetic | (adj) movement. | Alex began a peripatetic hiker after he suffered a medical condition. |
| Transient | (adj) temporary, short time. | Having a transient cut is like a person running into a house then quickly running out. |
| Transitory | (adj) tending to pass away. | When people become too sick they have a more chance of becoming transitory than they do being alive. |
| Volatile | (adj) explosive or changing very quickly. | "You have got to change this Volatile behavior. You might hurt someone." The teacher said. |