Title: Hot SAT Words:
1Hot SAT Words
2Lesson 10 Mole Hills or Mountains?
- Words relating to Problems, Puzzlements, and
Disasters
3ADVERSITY
- N. Great trouble or difficulty
4ANIMAL ADVERSITY!
5HUMAN ADVERSITY!
6PAST ADVERSITY
7FUTURE ADVERSITY!
8ADVERSITY
- 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.
9CONFLAGRATION
- N. a huge fire
- an inferno
Flames from the CONFLAGRATON lit up the sky for
miles around.
10CONFLAGRATION
- The burning of Atlanta
- in Gone With the Wind
- is one of the great
- CONFLAGRATION
- scenes in movie
- history.
11CONFOUNDING
12CONFOUNDING
- The world was fascinated by the CONFOUNDING
disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
13CONFOUNDED!
14CRYPTIC
- Adj. hidden, hard to understand, mysterious,
obscure
THE ROSETTA STONE
15CRYPTIC
- 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.
16DEBACLE
- N. A failure or breakdown a collapse that is
often nonsensical
17OBLIVIOUS PILOTS IMMINENT DEBACLE
18VORACIOUS SHARK IMMINENT DEBACLE!
19DEFINITE DEBACLE!
20DEBACLE
- 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.
21ENIGMA
N. a riddle or mystery a puzzling or baffling
matter or person
22EnigmaMachine
23ENIGMA
- 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.
24ENIGMA or DEBACLE or BOTH?
25LABYRINTH
- N. a maze from which it is very hard to extricate
(free) oneself
26LABYRINTH
- 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.
27ART
Imitates life.
28Cutting the GORDIAN KNOT!
Animal ingenuity triumphs!
29PRECARIOUS
- Adj. dangerous or risky uncertain
30PRECARIOUS POSITION
31POSITION IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING PRECARIOUS POSITION
32PRECARIOUS
- 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?
33ELOQUENT
QUANDARY
- A dilemma
- a confusing or puzzling situation
34QUANDARY
35QUANDARY
- 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.
36TURBULENCE
- N. Great unrest
- turmoil or disorder
37TURBULENCE
- 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.
38TURMOIL
- N. A very puzzling scenario or situation tumult
39TURMOIL
- 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.
40CHRISTOPHER 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."