Transcript SAT Vocabulary #2 - Everglades High School

Words related to speaking
1. Bombastic (adj) using language in a pompous, showy way;
speaking to impress others
2. Circumlocution (n) speaking in circles; roundabout speech
3. Colloquial (adj) pertaining to common everyday speech;
conversational
4. Diffuse (adj) spread out, not concise; wordy
5. Digress (vb) to wander off from the subject or topic spoken
about
6. eloquence (n) artful ease with speaking; speech that can
influence people’s emotions
7. Garrulous (adj) talkative; loquacious
8. Grandiloquent (adj) using big and fancy words when
speaking for the purpose of impressing others
More words related to speaking
9. Loquacious (adj) very talkative; liking to talk; garrulous
10.Prattle (vb) to speak on and on in a senseless and silly
manner; to talk foolishly
11.Ramble (vb) to talk on and on pointlessly, without clear
direction
12.Rant (vb) to talk very loudly, even wildly; rave
13.Rhetorical (adj) relating to speech that is used to
persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression.
14.Verbose (adj) using too many words, long winded
15.Voluble (adj) talking a great deal with ease; glib
Memory Tips
Loc-, loq- These word roots relate to speaking. Notice how they appear in
five words in this lesson: circumlocution, colloquial, eloquence, grandiloquent,
and loquacious
Garrulous Think of “garrulous gorillas” in the jungle and how noisy and
talkative they are! Use “Garrulous Gorillas! Garrulous Gorillas! Garrulous
Gorillas!” as an alliterative chant; say it aloud three times in a row! Write this
chant three time in a row in your Vocabulary Notebook.
Prattle In your mind’s eye, picture a baby playing with rattles while she
prattles. Once again, take advantage of the letter clusters (and sometimes
words) that naturally occur within the vocabulary words. This visual mnemonic is
highly memorable since it creates a fun, loving, even silly, picture in your mind’s
eye.
Voluble Be careful with this word. Do not think about volume in terms of
loudness of speech; instead, think about volume in terms of quantity or amount
of speech. On other words, Victor can be speaking volubly while he is whispering.
Voluble means glib not loud. Get it?
Sample Sentences
Luke’s speech was so bombastic; was he speaking to communicate or simply
to show off?
To avoid hurting anyone's feelings, Hank resorted to circumlocution.
The book is filled with colloquial expressions that reflect the speech of
people in the deep South.
The class discussion was so diffuse that few solid points were made.
We don’t have time to digress from the main issue right now.
Even the most eloquent graduation speeches are quickly forgotten.
Garrulous gatherings of students are unwelcome in a library that values
silence
“Instead of grandiloquence,” cautioned the teacher, “use plain language.”
The loquacious audience grew quiet when the movie started.
Sample Sentences - continued
The prattle of freshmen resounded through the cafeteria.
The teacher rambled endlessly about various unrelated topics.
Because the speaker ranted on and on, the audience stopped listening after
a while.
The speech of politicians is often thick with rhetoric.
The teacher asked Brenda to cut her verbose speech from 40 to 15 minutes.
Victor is such a voluble speaker that it takes him a half hour to answer a
simple question.