Webster Essential Vocabulary

• When Mom or Dad is snoring in the armchair, you might call that a
  moment of slumber.
  [-ed, -ing, -er n.]
  smugness (SMUG nis) n. self-satisfaction to an annoying degree; complacency


• Jackie Robinson never showed any smugnessfor all his accomplishments in
  major-league baseball.


• A good deal of smugnesswas shown by the mayor of Los Angeles when he
  lured the Brooklyn Dodgers to the West Coast.

Quick Review #76.

Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.

S: SAT Words 213

1. sedative


2. segment


3. selfishness


4. sentence


5. sentiment


6. serendipity


7. shun


8. simplicity


9. simplistic


10. simply


11. sinuate


12. skeptical


13. skepticism


14. slumber


15. smugness

a. oversimplified

b. complacency

c. doubting

d. uncertainty

e. part

f. wavy edged

g. sleep

h. condemn

i. self-centeredness

j. opinion

k. plainness

l. avoid

m. soothing

n. luck

o. absolutely

society (suh SY it ee) n.1. a group of persons forming a community with a distinct
social or economic connection; 2. the system or condition of living together commu-
nally; 3. all people collectively, or a particular strata thereof, usually upper crust

• The societyof the Amish living around Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is distinct-
  ly different from the societyof Chinatown in San Francisco, California.


• Those living on a kibbutz in Israel live in a societywhere every member
  depends on every other member.


• The societywe all live in is known as the civilized world.


• Those forming the so-called high societylive in a world of debutante balls
  and coming-out parties.
  [societies pl., societal, social adj., socially adv.]