SAT Vocab Set 17 #1-5

the distance around something; circumference

• girth

• gloat

• glutton

Before crawling into a sewer pipe, it is first wise to measure its _________.

• girth

• gloat

• glutton

The _______ of the planet Earth is about twenty-five thousand miles.

• glutton

• gossamer

• girth

to brag greatly

• grandiloquent

• gloat

• glutton

For years, she _____ over the marriage of her daughter to the most eligible bachelor in town.

• gloated

• gluttoned

• girthed

After winning the state championship last year the football team _____ for a whole year until they lost the first game of the season.

• girthed

• grandiloquent

• gloated

one who eats or consumes a great deal; having capacity to receive or withstand something

• girth

• gossamer

• glutton

The neighbor's kids are such ______; whenever they come over, they clean out the fridge.

• gloats

• girths

• gluttons

A baseball freak, JoAnne ______ reads every sports book on baseball she can get her hands on.

• gluttonously

• gossamer

• gloatingly

delicate floating cobwebs; a sheer gauzy fabric; something delicate, light, flimsy

• grandiloquent

• gossamer

• gloat