SAT Cartoon Vocabulary Lesson #6

Accolade – award, honor, approval

Accolades for lemonade!

Myriad – an extremely large number

• Many mirrors give a myriad of reflections.

Caucus – meeting of members to make a decision

• A cactus caucus!

Grandiloquent – to try to impress with big words or gestures

• The grand elephant made a grandiloquent speech.

Demonic – one who is linked to evil, to work as hard as a devil

• He was a demonic demon for extra work.

Noxious – harmful to human beings

• Cheap perfume is so noxious that it knocks us out!

Atrophy – to wither away

• Trophy champions can atrophy without continual workouts.

Harangue – to lecture with a long speech, to berate

• His harangue ended with a meringue pie in the face.

Dromedary – a one-humped camel

• A dromedary could be considered a roaming dairy.

Proficient – skillful, to be very good at something

• The pro fisherman was certainly proficient.