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Hot Words for the SAT® -vocabulary with accurate meaning, rated A+ brevity - ✔✔briefness or conciseness in speech or writing concise - ✔✔using few words in speaking or writing la... conic - ✔✔using few words in speech pithy - ✔✔brief and full of meaning and substance; concise quiescent - ✔✔quiet; still; inactive reticent - ✔✔not talking much; reserved succint - ✔✔clearly and briefly stated; concise taciturn - ✔✔silent; sparing of words; close-mouthed terse - ✔✔using only the words that are needed to make the point; very concise, sometimes to the point of rudeness bombastic - ✔✔using language in a pompous, showy way; speaking to impress others circumlocution - ✔✔speaking in circles; round-about speech colloquial - ✔✔pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational diffuse (adj.) - ✔✔spread out, not concise, wordy digress - ✔✔to wander off from the subject or topic spoken about eloquence - ✔✔talkative; loquacious grandiloquent - ✔✔using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others loquacious - ✔✔very talkative; liking to talk; garrulous prattle - ✔✔to speak on and on in a senseless and silly manner; to talk foolishly ramble - ✔✔to talk on and on pointlessly, without clear direction rant - ✔✔to talk very loudly, even wildly; rave rhetorical - ✔✔relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression verbose - ✔✔using too many words; wordy; long winded voluble - ✔✔talking with a great deal of ease; glib arrogant - ✔✔overbearing; proud; haughty braggart - ✔✔one who boasts a great deal complacent - ✔✔self-satisfied; smug contemptuous - ✔✔lacking respect; scornful disdainful - ✔✔full of bitter scorn and pride; aloof egotistical - ✔✔Excessively self-absorbed; very conceited haughty - ✔✔having great pride in oneself and dislike for others insolent - ✔✔boldly disrespectful in speech or behavior; rude narcissistic - ✔✔having to do with extreme self-adoration and a feeling of superiority of everyone ostentatious - ✔✔having to do with showing off; pretentious presumptuous - ✔✔too forward or bold; overstepping proper bounds pretentious - ✔✔claiming or pretending increased importance; ostentatious; affectedly grand supercilious - ✔✔looking down on others; proud and scornful swagger (vb.) - ✔✔to walk around in a proud showy manner; to boast in a loud manner banal - ✔✔dull or stale because of overuse; trite; hackneyed cliché - ✔✔an idea or expression that has become stale due to overuse derivative (adj.) - ✔✔unoriginal; taken from something already existing hackneyed - ✔✔made common place by overuse; trite (n. hack, one who copies or imitates the work of others) insipid - ✔✔lacking flavor or taste; unexciting lackluster - ✔✔lacking vitality, energy, or brightness; boring mundane - ✔✔commonplace; ordinary platitude - ✔✔quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if it were original prosaic - ✔✔dull; commonplace trite - ✔✔unoriginal and stale due to overuse vapid - ✔✔lacking freshness and zest; flat; stale allay - ✔✔to lessen fear; to calm; to relieve pain alleviate - ✔✔to lessen pain or discomfort ameliorate - ✔✔to make better; to lessen pain, difficulty, or tension appease - ✔✔to make tranquil or quiet, especially by giving into another's demands; to pacify assuage - ✔✔to alleviate; to lessen pain or conflict; pacify consciliate - ✔✔to win a person over through special considerations or persuasive methods; reconcile mediate - ✔✔to act as a go-between in settling conflicts or disputes between people or opposing sides mitigate - ✔✔to make or become less severe; to lessen pain or damage mollify - ✔✔to pacify, soothe, or appease; to make less severe or violent pacify - ✔✔to calm; to make peaceful; to restore to a tranquil state placate - ✔✔to make calm; to soothe quell - ✔✔to pacify; to subdue; to quiet down affable - ✔✔easy to talk to; easy to approach, friendly; kind; amiable amiable - ✔✔friendly, kind amicable - ✔✔showing goodwill; peaceable congenial - ✔✔compatible; having kindred needs or tastes; sympathetic convivial - ✔✔sociable, outgoing in a festive way, especially when pertaining to eating and drinking; fond of good company cordial - ✔✔warm and friendly; amiable [Show More]

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