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Hot SAT Words. Lessons 21-30. LESSON # 29. Tricky Twins & Triplets!. Words that Sound and Look Alike but Have Different Meanings. ACRID. Adj. bitter, harsh. ACRID. ACRID exhaust fumes from the traffic inside the tunnel made me cough. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Hot SAT Words
Lessons
21-30
LESSON # 29
Tricky Twins & Triplets!
Words that Sound and Look Alike but Have Different Meanings
ACRID
Adj. bitter, harsh
ACRIDACRID exhaust fumes from the
traffic inside the tunnel made me cough.
The comedian’s ACRID humor rubs salt into many wounds.
ARID
Adj. dry, lacking water
ARIDThe arroyo once had running
water in it, but now it is ARID.ARID air inside the plane dries
my skin.
AESTHETIC
Adj. having to do with artistic beauty
AESTHETICBetty gets her sense of
AESTHETICS from her mother, who is a successful artist and designer.
There is something AESTHETICALLY wrong with that painting; it pushes you away instead of drawing you in.
ASCETIC
n. A person who refrains from indulging in earthly pleasures
ASCETICWhy would anyone claiming to
be an ASCETIC own five wristwatches and a suitcase full of jewelry?
ATHEISTICAdj. Without belief in any god
ATHEISTICAlthough James was reared a
strict Catholic, he became an ATHEIST in college.
Communism is ATHEISTIC.
AMBIGUOUSAdj. hard to understand;
unclear; open to more than one interpretation
AMBIGUOUSThe author leaves the passage
AMBIGUOUS because he wants you, the reader, to decide what it means.
AMBIVALENTAdj. having conflicted feelings or opinions about something; unsure
AMBIVALENTRose feels AMBIVALENT about the
trip. Part of her wants to go; part of her wants to stay home.
AMBIVALENCE paralyzes Penny; she can’t make up her mind about anything.
COALESCEv. To have different
opinions join together; fuse; converge
COALESCEBy the end of the meeting, the
various viewpoints had somehow COALESCED into a coherent policy.
Gravity forced billions of atoms to COALESCE into a single lump of rock.
CONVALESCE
V. To recover from an illness
CONVALESCEA CONVALESCENCE of two
months kept Joe from his job.Grandma is CONVALESCING
from a broken hip.
DELUSIONN. A false opinion or
belief
DELUSIONTo expect to get into Yale with
an 880 SAT score is nothing but a DELUSION.
The story tells of a lowly clerk who has DELUDED himself into thinking he’s the king of Spain.
ALLUSIONAdj. an indirect reference, often
to literature or a source with which an educated person
would be familiar
ALLUSIONThe book is hard to read unless you
understand the author’s ALLUSIONS to Greek and Roman mythology.
She ALLUDED to Jefferson’s penchant for architectural design.
ILLLUSIONAdj.
Something unreal that gives the appearance of reality
ILLUSION
ILLUSIONAlthough he can barely draw a
straight line, Morris developed the ILLUSION that he’s a great artist. He’s DELUDED!