SAT Vocabulary Review

He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood

He trotted in the sand, enduring the sun's enmity and heat as he found his scattered clothes.

Simon's contrite, yet sorrowful face face appeared in the hole.

After the bird escaped, Chris tried to coax it back into the cage with treats.

There was a slight, furtive boy who kept to himself with an inner avoidance and secrecy.

Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes...

No one wants a friend who is going to divulge a secret told in confidence.

The tumult at the mall during Christmas makes me want to rip my hair out.

The earnest young man said he was sorry for ripping up the neighbor's flowers.

Ralph pushed both hands through his hair and looked at the little boy in exasperation.

I meandered through the woods taking my time exploring

They pulled and it broke up in pieces and decay, they inched the grotesque dead thing up the rock

The jaunty man walked down the street singing as if no one else was around.

The bully chased the kid across the street to pulverize him.

Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages, wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon.

The boy waited to be asked his name in turn but this proffer of acquaintance was not made.

Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, excited by all the vicissitudes of a day's hunting.

They were twins, and the eye was shocked and incredulous at such cheery duplication.

Jackie was mortified after her puppy ripped her friend's brand new sweater

Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that festooned the dead or dying trees

There was no laughter at all now and more grave watching.

Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame.

The voracious little boy ate as much as he could.

The note boomed, the note fluking up an octave, a strident blare more penetrating than before.

He stood, warped out of the perpendicular light of publicity, and into the grass with one toe.

The 20 page paper seems like a formidable assignment at first, but it ends up a good lesson.

The ground was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by upheavals of fallen trees.

Grandpa didn't know that it was going to rain on the trip, and now he had to alter his plans.

with the expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of children...

The diamond ring was radiantly shining on her finger

The renegade needed to get out of town as soon as possible.

I admire her candor, especially when nobody else bothers to speak up.

Some people feel perplexed by brain teasers, while others figure them out quickly.

The boisterous crowd began stamping and cheering for the NFL star after he scored a touchdown.

The girl languidly put on her jacket as if she had no energy at all.

After falling many times on his skis, Dan was reluctant to ski down the mountain again.

The shell was interesting but the vivid day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy.

The brevity of their time together made it all the more romantic.

The audience sat with churchlike decorum while waiting for the speaker to begin. 

Piggy clasped his hands in apprehension and worry.

On the way to his room after just having been grounded, Tod murmured something under his breath