SAT Words 52-56

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SAT Words 52-56

• Root 11

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52. exuberant

• Amid exuberant optimism, the region embraced
  democracy, open trade and the free market.

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exuberant

• (ex-ZOO-burr-ent) adjective
• Sounds like ex-zoo bear aunt
• Picture a grizzly bear who left the zoo but
  returns to visit his aunt. When they see each
  other, they are both very happy, hugging,
  dancing, and singing for many hours.
• Other forms exuberance (noun)
  exuberantly (adverb)
• Definition uncontrollably joyous

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53. fallacious

• The idea that gratification is a completion of
  the wish is fallacious.

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fallacious

• (fuh-LAY-shuss) adjective
• Sounds like full ashes
• Picture a father and son on the lawn in front of
  the sons house. Dad says, Be sure to always
  clean the ashes out of the fireplace and the
  entire chimney. As the ashes are spilling out
  onto the roof, the young man says, Dont worry,
  Dad. I clean it out every day.
• Other forms fallacy (noun) fallaciously
  (adverb)
• Definition false misleading

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54. fastidious

• Rabbits are fastidious animals and will
  frequently groom themselves.

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fastidious

• (fass-TID-ee-uss) adjective
• Looks like fast hideous
• Picture a decorator showing her client many
  kinds of wallpaper. Every time she holds up a
  sample, the client says, Hideous! The faster
  she shows the samples, the faster the client
  says, Hideous!
• Other forms fastidiousness (noun)
  fastidiously (adverb)
• Definition difficult to please

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55. fervor

• During the campaign, the two major parties had
  attempted to outdo each other in their
  anti-terror fervor.

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fervor

• (FER-ver) noun
• Sounds like fever, or forever
• Picture a young man telling his girlfriend how
  much he loves her. He speaks with an intensity of
  passion that seems to have no limits. Ophelia,
  my love for you is like a hurricane at sea, wild,
  uncontrollable! Im drowning in it! Its
  swallowing me up, tearing me to pieces, dashing
  me against the rocks. I am shredded by passion! I
  am consumed with fever! A fever that will last
  forever!
• Other forms fervidness(n) fervidly(adv)
• Definition strong passion

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56. fickle

• Popularizing science is a tough, fine, fickle
  line between too simple and too complex.

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fickle

• (FIK-uhl) adjective
• Rhymes with pickle and nickel
• Picture a little girl and her teacher. The
  teacher is holding up a picture of a pickle and a
  picture of a nickel and has asked the girl which
  she likes better. The girl says she likes pickles
  better. Then she says she likes nickels better.
  She continues to alternate, changing her mind
  every few seconds.
• Other form fickleness (noun)
• Definition lacking loyalty unpredictably
  changeable erratic

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Root 11 pan, pan(t)

• His economic philosophy is a good one, but he
  tries to use it as a panacea.

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pan, pan(t)

• Meaning all, every
• Sample words
• panacea (a cure-all)
• pangram ( a sentence using all
  letters of the alphabet)
• pantaphobia (no fear of anything)
• pantomime ( performance using gestures and
  body movements without words.)