SAT words (page 1)

itinerary

big-tents (circus) has itineraries

perturb

perturb is the keyword in the science of chaos (non-linear dynamics)

inordinately

gorge inordinate amount of fish

subpoena

she was subpoenaed by the court, what a stroke of luck

bland

his rant was rather bland

holistic

loook at those holistic men, holistically eschewing rationalism

hubris

similar to that of a baloon: light, airy, and bloated

colloquial

fuck is colloquial for copulate

exacerbate

the incident exacerbates her hernia

shrivel

the flower all shriveled up

strident

scratching tin against glass

accretion

accretion of knowledge

odious

something smells odious

disseminate

disseminate information

dissipate

dissipate energy and be spent, aptly as men in the process of procreation.

exasperate

i was exasperated by that fire siren, dreaming the songs of Sirens.

construe

stupid people construe lampoons as insults

placate

placate me

compendium

he made a compendium of syntactically ambiguous English phrases

spoof

you are reading a spoof of spoof

salient

her big-blue eyes, make an iron man watery towards her courtesy. (thus, her big-blue eyes is a salient feature)
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