VOCABULARY FROM LATIN AND GREEK ROOTS
Top 100 Most Challenging SAT Vocabulary
Words E - H (Weeks: May 2-6 – May 9-13)
Look up the following words in the dictionary and record: 1. the part(s) of speech 2. any helpful notes and 3. an original sentence that uses the word correctly
|1. ebullient |DEFINITION: extremely lively, enthusiastic |
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|PART of speech: adj |SAMPLE SENTENCE: She became ebullient upon receiving an acceptance letter from her first-choice college. |
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|bulla – latin “bubble” |YOUR SENTENCE: The freshman wide receiver seemed ebullient to start his first game. |
|2. eclectic |DEFINITION: consisting of parts selected from various sources |
| |SAMPLE SENTENCE: The academy’s philosophy of teaching was an eclectic blend of ideas, ranging from Socrates to |
|PART of speech: adj |Montessori. |
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|Lexis – speech, word or phrase |YOUR SENTENCE: The eclectic research paper gathered information from many sources. |
|3. egregious |DEFINITION: extremely bad |
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|PART of speech: adj |SAMPLE SENTENCE: The student who threw sloppy joes across the cafeteria was punished for his egregious behavior. |
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| |YOUR SENTENCE: Ms. Houlditch is an egregious break dancer. / Alex and Daniel’s egregious decisions led them to being |
| |duct-taped to the wall. |
|4. ephemeral |DEFINITION: short lived; fleeting |
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|PART of speech: adj |SAMPLE SENTENCE: She promised she’d love me forever, but her “forever” was only ephemeral: she left me after one week. |
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| |YOUR SENTENCE: Osama bin Laden’s feelings of security were ephemeral when the Navy Seals bust into his room. |
|5. epigraph |DEFINITION: an inscription on a monument or building, on a coin, or at the beginning of a book or chapter. |
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|PART of speech: |SAMPLE SENTENCE: The epigraph to Things Fall Apart is from a poem by WB Yeats. |
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|grapheme – latin “word” |YOUR SENTENCE: |
|6. expiate |DEFINITION: to make amends for, atone |
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|PART of speech: |SAMPLE SENTENCE: To expiate my selfishness, I gave all my profits to charity. |
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|7. expunge |DEFINITION: to obliterate, eradicate |
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|PART of speech: |SAMPLE SENTENCE: Fearful of an IRS investigation, Paul tried to expunge all incriminating evidence from his tax files. |
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|8. extol |DEFINITION: to praise, revere |
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|PART of speech: |SAMPLE SENTENCE: Violet extolled the virtues of a vegetarian diet to her meat-loving brother. |
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|10. fallacious |DEFINITION: incorrect, misleading |
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|PART of speech: |SAMPLE SENTENCE: Emily offered me cigarettes on the fallacious assumption that I smoked. |
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|11. fastidious |DEFINITION: meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards |
| |SAMPLE SENTENCE: Mark is so fastidious that he is never able to finish a project because it always seems imperfect to |
|PART of speech: |him |
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|12. fervid |DEFINITION: full of intense passion or zeal |
| |SAMPLE SENTENCE: The governor’s campaign speech inspired fervid support. |
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|13. flagrant |DEFINITION: shockingly evident; outrageously conspicuous |
| |SAMPLE SENTENCE: Amnesty International is an organization that draws attention to flagrant violations of human rights |
|PART of speech: |around the world. |
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|14. forensic |DEFINITION: 1. referring to legal proceedings 2. the study or practice of formal debate |
| |SAMPLE SENTENCE: A specialist in forensic medicine testified that the victim had died from poison. |
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|15. garrulous |DEFINITION: talkative, wordy |
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|PART of speech: |SAMPLE SENTENCE: Some talk-show hosts are so garrulous that their guests can’t get a word in edgewise |
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|16. grandiloquence |DEFINITION: lofty, pompous language |
| |SAMPLE SENTENCE: The student thought her grandiloquence would make her sound smart, but neither the class nor the |
|PART of speech: |teacher bought it |
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|17. gregarious |DEFINITION: drawn to the company of others, sociable |
| |YOUR SENTENCE: Well, if you’re not gregarious, I don’t know why you would want to go to a singles party |
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|18. hapless |DEFINITION: unlucky |
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|PART of speech: |SAMPLE SENTENCE: My poor, hapless family never seems to pick a sunny week to go on vacation. |
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|19. heterodox |DEFINITION: not in agreement wit accepted beliefs; holding unorthodox opinions. |
| |SAMPLE SENTENCE: Although the medical establishment once scorned them as radically heterodox, Sigmund Freud’s ideas |
|PART of speech: |about the psyche have generally become accepted today. |
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|20. hyperbole |DEFINITION: an exaggeration; a figure of expressing excess |
| |SAMPLE SENTENCE: “Our math homework was so hard! It took me ten years to finish those problems,” is an example of |
|PART of speech: |hyperbole. |
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