SAT TACTIC SEVEN - MAIN IDEA TERMS

(verb) to support an idea or position

• futile

• amenable

• assail

• bolster

(verb) to outline or describe with care

• delineate

• hallow

• enervate

• sumptuous

(verb) to represent or portray vividly

• constrain

• manipulate

• encompass

• depict

(verb) to disbelieve; to cause a loss of confidence in

• discredit

• empathy

• enhance

• ephemeral

(verb) to add more details to; to work out in minute detail

• illustrate

• Introduce

• elaborate

• scenario

(verb) to support or approve

• Hypnotize

• Outfox

• Endorse

• Enroll

(verb) To serve as an example of

• Exemplify

• Forfeit

• Formidable

• Inventory

(verb) to clarify as by the use of examples

• Describe

• Modify

• Illustrate

• Details

(verb) to prove to be false or incorrect

• refute

• smug

• tarry

• pacify

(verb) To reason, possibly on insufficient evidence

• research

• speculate

• simulate

• count on