SAT #3

shrill; high pitch

• contemptuous

• virulent

• idyllic

• strident

Abridge

• lawlessness, anarchy

• to shorten or condense

• grumbling; grumpy

• to repeat

Soporific

• ignite, arouse

• to praise highly

• causing sleep, very boring

• to describe accurately

Anarchy

• to improve; intensify

• to erase, rub out

• Lawlessness, an absence of government or control

• to validate

Reiterate

• to ridicule

• to attack with words

• to say again; to repeat

• to make a claim

Belabor

• to argue the point

• to mention an idea

• to prove that something is correct

• to go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent

pretentious

• condition for something to happen

• to analyze the process

• to verify the accuracy of a situation

• making ridiculous claims

Bucolic

• by the dawn's early light

• what so proudly we hail

• charming rural

• use context clues

Nonchalant

• to lie

• not showing any concern or worry

• to praise highly

• eager to fight

Conflagration

• to swear too much

• A huge fire; inferno

• use the PIE technique

• who is telling the story