The SAT word game

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<p>Would something like witch hazel actually show up on the SAT? (just wondering)</p>

<p>witch hazel - a small shrub that grows in the eastern US, also can refer to an alcoholic astringent made from the plant</p>

<p>While hiking throught the wilderness, Chris accidently scratched his leg on the witch hazel. When he reached home, he cleaned the wound with a mild witch hazel concoction.</p>

<p>and since I was late in responding:
bequeath - to give or leave to, esp. in a will
The generous statesman bequeathed his fortune to the local orphanage.</p>

<p>perambulate</p>

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<p>No, I don't think witch hazel would show up on the SAT. At the same time, it's probably useful to know what it is... I know flowers/plants are often featured in passages on AP/SAT II lit, so it'll help you to know what they mean.</p>

<p>perambulate: walk, stroll, traverse</p>

<p>Needless to say, Mom was floored when the repairman perambulated through the house without even taking off his muddy boots.</p>

<p>nadir</p>

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<p>Nadir- rock bottom, the lowest things are going to get</p>

<p>He was mistaken in thinking he'd reached the nadir point of his life -- the discovery that he'd lost the money invested in paperclips was yet to come.</p>

<p>Adroit</p>

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<p>Adroit - highly skilled</p>

<p>She was an adroit answer-bubbler-- her pencil flew across her answer sheet, perfectly filling in the circles.</p>

<p>acumen</p>

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<p>acumen - keen insight</p>

<p>Her political acumen helped her to win the election.</p>

<p>Puerile</p>

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<p>puerile-childish</p>

<pre><code> Cousin William was acting puerile during the family reunion last Tuesday.
</code></pre>

<p>ubiquitous</p>

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<p>apothecary - like a pharmacy or medicinal vendor</p>

<p>In the days before Walgreen's, Americans would walk to the neighborhood apothecary to get their medications.</p>

<p>Ahh! you changed words on me!</p>

<p>ubiquitous - highly visible, well-known</p>

<p>McDonald's "Golden Arches" are the ubiquitious symbols of fast-food all over the world.</p>

<p>hegira</p>

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<p>hegira-flight to escape danger</p>

<p>Jimmy, fearful of further injury, ran in a hegira away from the blood thirsty German shepherd.</p>

<p>codicil</p>

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<p>codicil - a legal instrument made to modify a will;a supplement</p>

<p>After he caught his wife cheating on him, Mr. Rich phoned his lawyer and told him to write up a codicil that would disinherit her from his will.</p>

<p>ipso facto</p>

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<p>ipso facto - therefore, by the fact itself</p>

<p>Mrs. Rich was now living in poverty and was, ipso facto, incapable of forgiving her husband.</p>

<p>diddactic</p>

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<p>lol, good one ever_after :-)</p>

<p>didactic = relating to teaching, instructional</p>

<p>Everyone failed the AP test after taking Mr. Jones's class because he wasn't didactic enough; he just let the kids d do whatever they wanted, so they didn't learn anything.</p>

<p>ceteris paribus</p>

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<p>a freezing of parts</p>

<p>to study supply and demand, we employ ceteris paribus.
(could be better said, but oh well)</p>

<p>isogloss (fun word!)</p>

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<p>Wow, idamayer, what a cool word!!</p>

<p>isogloss - the boundary line between regions which have certain linguistic differences, as on a map</p>

<p>The Centum-Satem isogloss is one of the best known; cutting through the center of Europe, it seperates the Indo-European language family into two branches; the Indo-Iranian, Baltic-Slavic branch to the East, and the Celtic, Italic and Germanic languages to the West.</p>

<p>OK, after THAT word I need to post a hard one:</p>

<p>cicisbeo</p>

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<p>that one is even better than isogloss! whee...</p>

<p>cicisbeo - (two meanings) the literal: a know of ribon decorating something (eg a fan); also: a man who 'admires' married women.</p>

<p>Mrs. Penn laughed at the jokes of Mr. Wharton, who was well known to be a cicisbeo, and fanned herself - making the green silk cicisbeo that dangled from her fan dance.</p>

<p>penchant</p>

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<p>Wow, I wasn't even aware of that second meaning as a ribbon - nice job showing both definitions in your sentence.</p>

<p>penchant - a tendency or preference</p>

<p>Talk-show host Jay Leno is known to have a penchant for classic cars, having one of the world's largest private collections.</p>

<p>Now let's go back to linguistics :-)</p>

<p>sprachgefühl</p>

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<p>sprachgefuhl - an intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language</p>

<p>Mr Haas has no sprachgefuhl.</p>

<p>idiosyncrasy</p>

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<p>idiosyncrasy- a characteristic to a group</p>

<p>The Mean Girls had an idiosyncrasy for being really mean.</p>

<p>facetious</p>

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<p>facetious - joking, humorous</p>

<p>Mr. Thomson said, "No! Get out!" with such a straight face, that none of his students could tell that he was being facetious.</p>

<p>back to fun german words:
schadenfreude</p>

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<p>facetious - humorous</p>

<p>Mr. Blinsnskvja was known to be a very facetious person in front of women older than him</p>

<p>insipid</p>

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<p>schadenfreude: joy derived from the misery of others</p>

<p>Michael Dell must derive infinite schadenfreude from his competitors bankruptcies. </p>

<p>weltanschauung</p>