sat words 57-61 root 12. 57. flagrant he spent more and more time away from home, telling what...
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SAT Words 57-61
Root 12
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57. flagrant
He spent more and more time away from home, telling what turned out to be flagrant
lies about his reasons for travel.
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flagrant• (FLAY-grent) adjective
• Looks like: flag rent
• Picture a man and woman parading on the sidewalk in front of their apartment building. Each carries a flag that says, “We have no complaints about this building or our apartment, but we aren’t going to pay our rent and we don’t care who knows it.”
• Other forms: flagrantly (adverb); flagrancy (noun)
• Definition: openly and obviously evil; glaring; conspicuous
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58. flippancy
Perhaps you could answer with a little less flippancy this time.
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flippancy• (FLIP-an-see) noun
• Sounds like: flip and see
• Picture a man sitting in the electric chair. Just minutes earlier, a storm knocked out power and now one of the guards asks if the electricity is back on. The prisoner smiles casually and gestures to the large switch on the wall next to the chair: “Just flip and see.”
• Other forms: flippant (adj); flippantly (adv)
• Definition: treating a serious situation with arrogant humor or disrespect
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59. garish
The plot of the song casts a garish light on the words of that
refrain.
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garish
• (GAIR-ish) adjective
• Looks like: car fish
• Picture a fish swimming in the ocean. This fish has fins like a ’58 Chevy, with flashy chrome trim and pinstriping; its scales are two-tone metallic. When it moves past other fish, it turns on a set of blinking lights that act as turn signals, and sounds a horn that plays the theme from “Flipper.”
• Other forms: garishly (adverb); garishness (noun)
• Definition: flashy; gaudy
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60. garrulous
For one thing, extroverts are overrepresented in politics, a profession in which only the
garrulous are really comfortable.
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garrulous
• (GAIR-uh-luss) adjective
• Sounds like: Gary Loose
• Picture a talkative man named Gary Loose Lips. Gary’s lips are so loose, he can’t stop talking for a second. Gary is wearing a pair of low gray shoes, which are talking.
• Other form: garrulity (noun)
• Definition: very talkative; loquacious
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61. genial
He has dark eyes, incipient jowls, and a manner that can change in a moment from
expansively genial to theatrically menacing.
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genial
• (JEE-nee-ul) adjective
• Sounds like: Genie Al
• Picture a Genie named Al who has just come out of his bottle. He is extremely friendly and accommodating, wanting very much to please everyone around him.
• Other form: geniality (noun)
• Definition: friendly; gracious; kind
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Root 12: past, pastor
The cows lazily spent the day grazing in the pasture.
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past, pastor
• Meaning: shepherd
• Sample word: pasture, pastoral