Monday, September 12, 2016

SAT Vocabulary #1: Context Clues

This post correlates material from the 9/10 NEW School core at Windsor High School. In this activity honors students had to analyze a specific word found in a sentence, then try to derive what its meaning is. This was an individual activity done by myself. Enjoy!

SAT VOCABULARY #1
Context Clues

1. Abase: To lower; to lower in rank

2. Accustom: To become known

3. Boisterous: Crazy and loud; out of control in a loose sense

4. Deficient: Lacking vital essence

5. Evasion: To avoid; to dodge; to get away

6. Incoherent: Missing detail; lacking sense

7. Epiphany:  Flashback triggered by a familiar scene, smell, view, sound, etc.; something that has finally been understood

8. Irrational: Not rational; not logistic  

9. Listless: Dazed; unresponsive to an extent

10. Parody: Absurd; Vivid reenactment; Stimulative in an interesting way

11. Persecution: To put down aggressively; to mock or drain one’s resources

12. Holocaust: Destruction on a massive scale; to level in a destructive manner

13. Genocide: To destroy a group of people; to slaughter a group

14. Stereotype: Identifying a group of people in a primitive, simplistic manner; to identify based on what the bulk of a group is doing or based on the bulk of past groups. These groups can also be influenced by different media outlets changing  the true perception of the group or revealing the true perception of the group

15. Luminescent: Brightly glowing; important

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