Do
garrulous, loquacious, glib, circuitous,
verbose, and voluble, people
Get along with
Concise, curt, laconic, pithy, reticent, succinct, and taciturn individuals?
Someone has been working on her vocab?
I bought the SAT Test Prep Words to Go
for my oldest child, quite a few years ago.
Nicole passed them down, unopened, to my son, JR,
who took a pass and gave them to daughter #2 Samantha
who ended up tossing the poor word families
still in their original wrapper in a foster home bin,
where they remained
until I rescued the unused words from oblivion
about a month ago.
The sagacious groups were eager to meet Katie,
who inherited every syllable by default.
All sorts of fabulous nouns, verbs and adjectives
were in mint condition,
and hoping to make a good impression on daughter #3.
The minute I pulled the CD out of my purse,
Kate let me know, in a clear and concise manner,
without a trace of reproach,
that although she appreciated my altruistic motives,
she simply was not interested in listening
to the SAT Word Families at his present time.
Even though she does not take the test
until her junior year
like I mentioned to her brother and sisters before her,
(of course, none of them listened to my advice)
that it would behoove her to get a head start
in order to avoid cramming for the exam.
Sitting down with the word families every once in awhile
and listening to what they had to say
would surely enrich her life as well as her vocabulary.
Oh well, her loss
my gain!
I decided to get to know this descriptive bunch myself.
just couldn’t bear to waste so many words.
Now, every time I get in the car,
instead of singing along with my favorite tunes,
expressive, vivid, graphic, eloquent, and colorful words
fill up my vehicle
and somehow manage to seep into my head
by osmosis.
Now the SAT Family is making themselves at home
in my own Journey, (Dodge)
even though I am the only one who did not dodge them
after all
Living in my car is so much better than being isolated
in an abandoned foster bin.
and that another story
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