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Title: Hot SAT Words:


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Hot SAT Words
  • Lessons
  • 1-10

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Lesson 4 Thats All Been Said Before!
  • Unoriginal, Dull, Played Out

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Commonplace overused
  • Trite
  • Cliché
  • Banal
  • Hackneyed

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BANAL
  • Adj. Dull or stale from overuse

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CLICHE
  • n. An overused idea or expression

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CLICHE
  • Two heads are better than one

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DERIVATIVE
  • Adj. Unoriginal taken from something already
    existing

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DERIVATIVE
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INSIPID
  • Adj. Lacking in flavor or taste unexciting

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INSIPID
What I thought would be a scary movie turned out
to be an insipid story of a harmless ghost.
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  • LACKLUSTER

Adj. Lacking vitality, energy, or brightness
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LACKLUSTER
  • Your PSAT score wont matter if you have
    LACKLUSTER grades!

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ELOQUENT
MUNDANE
Adj. Commonplace ordinary
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MUNDANE
  • The movies offer an escape from the MUNDANE
    character of daily life.

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PLATITUDE
n. Quality of being dull an obvious remark
uttered as if it were original
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PLATITUDE
Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be
true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. --H.
L. Mencken
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PROSAIC
Adj. Dull, commonplace
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VAPID
  • Adj. Lacking freshness and zest flat, stale

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Behind every uninspiring, vapid TV sitcom, youll
find an empty-headed producer and writer.
  • VAPID
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