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Title: Hot SAT Words:


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Hot SAT Words
  • Lessons
  • 1-10

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Lessons 1-5
  • Cat Got Your Tongue using few words being
    quiet
  • The Runaway Mouth speaking
  • The High and Mighty feeling superior
  • Thats All Been Said Before unoriginal
    overused
  • Making Things a Bunch Better lessening pain,
    tension, and/or conflict

3
Lesson 1 Cat Got Your Tongue?
  • Using Few Words or Being Quiet

4
BREVITY
  • n. Briefness or conciseness in speech or writing

5
  • When time is short, BREVITY is a virtue.

6
CONCISE
  • adj. Using few words in speaking and writing.

7
  • A CONCISE
  • explanation is
  • preferable to
  • a long-winded
  • one.

8
QUIESCENT
  • Adj. Quiet still inactive

9
  • quiescent

NOT quiescent
10
LACONIC
  • adj. Choosing to use few words in speech

Ill be back!
11
  • NUTS!

12
PITHY
  • adj. Brief and full of meaning and substance
    concise

13
PITHY
14
RETICENT
  • Adj. Not talking much reserved

15
RETICENT
  • Tom and Molly are a mismatched pair hes shy
    and RETICENT, while she never stops talking.

16
SUCCINCT
  • adj. Clearly and briefly stated concise

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SUCCINCT
  • Let me state it as SUCCINCTLY as I can No late
    papers!

18
TACITURN
  • --adj. Silent sparing of words closed-mouthed

19
TACITURN
  • Throughout the party Larry was moody and
    taciturn. No one heard a peep from him.

20
TERSE
  • Adj. Using only the words that are needed to make
    the point abrupt concise

21
TERSE
  • Ryans TERSE reply was clear No way!
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