SAT Vocab

Gloat

• To brag greatly

• delicate floating cobwebs; a sheer gauzy fabric; something delicate, light, flimsy

• overly dramatic, theatrical

• attemping to impress with big words or grand gestures

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Guile

• Overly dramatic, theatrical

• To brag greatly

• Delicate floating cobwebs; a sheer gauzy fabric; something delicate, light, flimsy

• Cunning deceitfulness; artfulness

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Gossamer

• Cunning deceitfulness; artfulness

• Delicate floating cobwebs; a sheer gauzy fabric; something delicate, light, flimsy

• Overly dramatic, theatrical

• Attempting to impress with big words or grand gestures

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Histrionic

• To brag greatly

• Attempting to impress with big words or grand gestures

• Overly dramatic, theatrical

• Delicate floating cobwebs; a sheer gauzy fabric; something delicate, light, flimsy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Grandiloquent

• Cunning deceitfulness; artfulness

• To brag greatly

• Attempting to impress with big words or grand gestures

• Overly dramatic, theatrical

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Nepotism

• The most advantageous; the best condition, degree, or amount

• Physically or mentally destructive, or harmful to human beings

• To exclude from a group; to shun

• Favors shown by those in high positions to family and friends

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Noxious

• Physically or mentally destructive, or harmful to human beings

• A situation in which something seems both true and false

• To exclude from a group; to shun

• Favors shown by those in high positions to family or friends

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Optimum

• A situation in which something seems both true and false

• To exclude from a group; to shun

• The most advantageous; the best condition, degree, or amount

• Favors shown by those in high positions to relatives and friends

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Ostracize

• To exclude from a group; to shun

• A situation in which something seems both true and false

• Favors shown by those in high positions to relatives and friends

• The advantageous; the best condition, degree, or amount

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Paradox

• favors shown by those in high positions to relatives and friends

• the advantageous; the best condition, degree, or amount

• physically or mentally destructive, or harmful to human beings

• a situation in which something seems both true and false

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4