Hot SAT Words:

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Hot SAT Words

• Lessons
• 1-10

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Lesson 10 Mole Hills or Mountains?

• Words relating to Problems, Puzzlements, and
  Disasters

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ADVERSITY

• N. Great trouble or difficulty

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ANIMAL ADVERSITY!
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HUMAN ADVERSITY!
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PAST ADVERSITY
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FUTURE ADVERSITY!
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ADVERSITY

• The book tells how she overcame the ADVERSITY of
  an impoverished childhood.
• The hero faced four years of ADVERSITY trying to
  survive on a desert island.

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CONFLAGRATION

• N. a huge fire
• an inferno

Flames from the CONFLAGRATON lit up the sky for
miles around.
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CONFLAGRATION

• The burning of Atlanta
• in Gone With the Wind
• is one of the great
• CONFLAGRATION
• scenes in movie
• history.

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CONFOUNDING

• Adj. puzzling, baffling

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CONFOUNDING

• The world was fascinated by the CONFOUNDING
  disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

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CONFOUNDED!
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CRYPTIC

• Adj. hidden, hard to understand, mysterious,
  obscure

THE ROSETTA STONE
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CRYPTIC

• We found a CRYPTIC message scrawled on the
  blackboard. No one could figure out its meaning.
• The twins used a CRYPTIC, incomprehensible
  language to talk to each other.

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DEBACLE

• N. A failure or breakdown a collapse that is
  often nonsensical

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OBLIVIOUS PILOTS IMMINENT DEBACLE
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VORACIOUS SHARK IMMINENT DEBACLE!
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DEFINITE DEBACLE!
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DEBACLE

• For me, physics class was a DEBACLE. I
  understood none of it, failed every test, and
  finally dropped the course.
• The performance was a DEBACLE. Actors forgot
  their lines, the set fell down, and the lights
  blew halfway through the first act.

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ENIGMA
N. a riddle or mystery a puzzling or baffling
matter or person
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EnigmaMachine
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ENIGMA

• Isabelle is an ENIGMA. I cant figure her out.
  Her moods change with the wind.
• The ENIGMATIC carvings on the ancient Egyptian
  tomb have never been fully interpreted.

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ENIGMA or DEBACLE or BOTH?
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LABYRINTH

• N. a maze from which it is very hard to extricate
  (free) oneself

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LABYRINTH

• The basement of our school is a LABYRINTH of
  tunnels and passageways. Its easy to get lost.
• Applying to college often seems like trying to
  find your way through a complicated maze or
  LABYRINTH.

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ART
Imitates life.
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Cutting the GORDIAN KNOT!
Animal ingenuity triumphs!
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PRECARIOUS

• Adj. dangerous or risky uncertain

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PRECARIOUS POSITION
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POSITION IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING PRECARIOUS POSITION
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PRECARIOUS

• Because Finnys foothold on the tree limb was
  PRECARIOUS, he fell and broke his leg.
• Its PRECARIOUS to apply to only one college
  because you may not be accepted. Then what?

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ELOQUENT
QUANDARY

• A dilemma
• a confusing or puzzling situation

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QUANDARY
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QUANDARY

• Walter faced the enviable QUANDARY of deciding
  which of three hot colleges he should attend.
• Safe Rides has taken the QUANDARY out of whether
  to accept a ride with a driver whos been
  drinking.

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TURBULENCE

• N. Great unrest
• turmoil or disorder

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TURBULENCE

• In September Mac and Meg were a happy couple.
  But since Mary came along, their relationship has
  experienced some TURBULENCE.
• Buckle your seat belt, said the flight
  attendant. We are experiencing some TURBULENCE.

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TURMOIL

• N. A very puzzling scenario or situation tumult

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TURMOIL

• There was TURMOIL in the room because the teacher
  had lost control of the class.
• Gretchens emotions were in TURMOIL after Jerry
  unexpectedly broke up with her.

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CHRISTOPHER MORRIS dropped down in Yugoslavia as soon as he heard the news that Croatia had declared their independence. Even though he was experienced in frontline photography, he soon came to realize that "the situation in Yugoslavia was more dangerous than anything I had ever gotten myself into."ONE NIGHT WHILE driving through Serbian territory after dark, Morris was shadowed by a black Mercedes "When we got to a wooded area - where a camera crew had disappeared two weeks earlier - the Mercedes cut us off."   THREE MEN WITH AK-47s pulled Morris out of his car and threw him to the ground. "They cocked their guns, pointed them to our heads, and accused us of being Croatian spies." They ripped through his passport and bags for evidence."LUCKILY, we had rejected the Croation press cards that had been issued to many photojournalists," remembers Morris uneasily, "One wrong turn could put you where you did not want to be."