Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A particularly difficult or obscure word.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see SAT, word.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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History
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.
