1st 6 weeks SAT vocab words
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MorganG505 on September 5, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Brevity | The shortness of tme or duration |
| Concise | Expressing or covering much in few words; brief in form but comprehensive in scope |
| Laconic | Using few words, Expressing much in few words |
| Pithy | Brief, forceful and meaningful in epression; full of vigor |
| Reticent | Disposed to be silent, or not to speak freely. |
| Succinct | Expressed in few words; conise; terse |
| Taciturn | Inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation |
| Terse | Neatly or effectivley concise |
| Quiscent | inactive; at rest |
| Bombastic | High souding |
| Circumlocution | A roudabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea |
| Colloquial | Characteristic of or apporopiate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speach or writing |
| Digress | to wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing |
| Eloquence | The practice of art of using language with fluency and aptness |
| Garrulous | Excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters |
| Loquacious | Taling or tending to talk much or freely |
| Prattle | To talk in a foolish or simple-minded way |
| Ramble | To wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner |
| Rant | To speak or declaim extravagantly or violently, take in a wild or vehement way |
| Verbose | Characterized by the use of many or too many words |
| Voluble | Characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent |
| Rhetorical | Used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect |
| Grandiloquent | Speaking or expressed in a loft style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic |
| Diffuse | To spread |
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