"SAT word" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "An idiomatic usage that derives from the former (pre-2016) Reading section of the SAT Reasoning Test where students had to define and understand obscure words, often above their level.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He was just dropping SAT words left and right! Like who even says \"whence\" anymore?!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 March 5, Editorial Board, “The New SAT Is a) Better b) Worse c) Both”, in Bloomberg Opinion",
          "text": "Add to this a partnership, also announced today, with Khan Academy to provide free test-prep materials for the SAT -- adaptive software, dashboards, feedback -- and there are probably a lot of (alert: SAT word) melancholy tutors right now.\nOf course, the College Board cannot erase the test-prep industry in one fell swoop. Change will still bring (alert: another SAT word) trepidation, something a professional tutor will happily accept an hourly fee to (OK, last SAT word) assuage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 March 17, Jamie Gumbrecht, “The SAT word is dead, long live the SAT word”, in CNN",
          "text": "“Today, when we say that someone has used an SAT word, it often means a word you have not heard before and are not likely to soon hear again,” Coleman explained in his announcement.\n[…]\nDrop “mellifluous” or “loquacious” into a sentence after the college applications are sent, and you can actually stop to appreciate it – “Hey, I just used an SAT word!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 June 4, Maureen Corrigan, “An Immigrant Yearns For Connection In 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'”, in NPR",
          "text": "Here's an SAT word for you: \"aptronym.\" An aptronym is a proper name that's especially \"apt\" for describing the person who bears it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 28, Lawrence Yee, “Golden Globes: Laverne Cox Just Asked Us to Google ‘Extradiegetic,’ So We Did”, in The Wrap",
          "text": "Laverne Cox dropped a serious SAT word during her virtual red carpet interview at Sunday’s Golden Globes.",
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        "A particularly difficult or obscure word."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) A particularly difficult or obscure word."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see SAT, word."
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɛsˌeɪ̯ˈti ˌwɝd/",
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  "word": "SAT word"
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  "etymology_text": "An idiomatic usage that derives from the former (pre-2016) Reading section of the SAT Reasoning Test where students had to define and understand obscure words, often above their level.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "SAT words",
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        "plural"
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    }
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        {
          "text": "He was just dropping SAT words left and right! Like who even says \"whence\" anymore?!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 March 5, Editorial Board, “The New SAT Is a) Better b) Worse c) Both”, in Bloomberg Opinion",
          "text": "Add to this a partnership, also announced today, with Khan Academy to provide free test-prep materials for the SAT -- adaptive software, dashboards, feedback -- and there are probably a lot of (alert: SAT word) melancholy tutors right now.\nOf course, the College Board cannot erase the test-prep industry in one fell swoop. Change will still bring (alert: another SAT word) trepidation, something a professional tutor will happily accept an hourly fee to (OK, last SAT word) assuage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 March 17, Jamie Gumbrecht, “The SAT word is dead, long live the SAT word”, in CNN",
          "text": "“Today, when we say that someone has used an SAT word, it often means a word you have not heard before and are not likely to soon hear again,” Coleman explained in his announcement.\n[…]\nDrop “mellifluous” or “loquacious” into a sentence after the college applications are sent, and you can actually stop to appreciate it – “Hey, I just used an SAT word!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 June 4, Maureen Corrigan, “An Immigrant Yearns For Connection In 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'”, in NPR",
          "text": "Here's an SAT word for you: \"aptronym.\" An aptronym is a proper name that's especially \"apt\" for describing the person who bears it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 28, Lawrence Yee, “Golden Globes: Laverne Cox Just Asked Us to Google ‘Extradiegetic,’ So We Did”, in The Wrap",
          "text": "Laverne Cox dropped a serious SAT word during her virtual red carpet interview at Sunday’s Golden Globes.",
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        }
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        "A particularly difficult or obscure word."
      ],
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        "(figurative) A particularly difficult or obscure word."
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see SAT, word."
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  "word": "SAT word"
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