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Hot SAT Words:

Explore the banal, cliché, and derivative words and phrases that have become all too familiar in everyday language. Discover ways to add vitality and originality to your writing and speech.

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Hot SAT Words:

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  1. Hot SAT Words: Lessons # 1-10

  2. Lesson #4: That’s All Been Said Before! Unoriginal, Dull, & “Played Out”

  3. Commonplace; overused • Trite • Cliché • Banal • Hackneyed

  4. BANAL Adj. Dull or stale from overuse

  5. CLICHE’ n. An overused idea or expression

  6. CLICHE • Two heads are better than one

  7. DERIVATIVE Adj. Unoriginal; taken from something already existing

  8. DERIVATIVE

  9. INSIPID • Adj. Lacking in flavor or taste; unexciting

  10. INSIPID What I thought would be a scary movie turned out to be an insipid story of a harmless ghost.

  11. LACKLUSTER Adj. Lacking vitality, energy, or brightness

  12. LACKLUSTER Your PSAT score won’t matter if you have LACKLUSTER grades!

  13. ELOQUENT MUNDANE Adj. Commonplace; ordinary

  14. MUNDANE The movies offer an escape from the MUNDANE character of daily life.

  15. PLATITUDE n. Quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if it were original

  16. PLATITUDE Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.--H. L. Mencken

  17. PROSAIC Adj. Dull, commonplace

  18. VAPID • Adj. Lacking freshness and zest; flat, stale

  19. Behind every uninspiring, vapid TV sitcom, you’ll find an empty-headed producer and writer. VAPID

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