Hot Words for SAT Lesson #1: Few Words or Being Quiet

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  1. brevity
    the attribute of being short or fleeting
  2. concise
    expressing much in few words
  3. laconic
    brief and to the point
  4. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  5. quiescent
    being quiet or still or inactive
  6. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  7. succinct
    briefly giving the gist of something
  8. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  9. terse
    brief and to the point
Created on Tue Jul 08 15:37:19 EDT 2008

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