1. Hot SAT Words Lessons 21-30

2. LESSON # 23 Here Today, gone Tomorrow! Words Relating to Being Short Lived in Time or Place

3. EPHEMERAL Adj. Fleeting; lasting a short time

4. EPHEMERAL Dave has followed baseball steadily since he was nine, but his interest in other sports has been EPHEMERAL. To a child, time goes by slowly; to an old man, it’s EPHEMERAL.

6. EVANESCENT Adj. vanishing quickly; fleeting

7. EVANESCENT Snowfall in the spring is usually EVANESCENT; it melts quickly. Old timers tend to lament the EVANESCENCE of youth.

8. FLEETING Adj. short lived

9. SUNSET is FLEETING!

10. FLEETING Willie and Wanda had a FLEETING romance. Their fling couldn’t have lasted more than 24 hours. Time is FLEETING when you are enjoying yourself, while pain seems to last forever.

11. ITINERANT Adj. wandering about; tending to move around, travel

12. ITINERANT Susan and Ellie wandered around Europe for months, enjoying a carefree, ITEINERANT life. Peter’s ITINERARY for two weeks included stops in ten cities and five countries.

13. NOMADIC Adj. wandering

14. NOMADIC NOMADIC tribes wandered endlessly about the Arabian peninsula. Oren, like a NOMAD, cannot settle down in one place. He has to keep moving.

15. PERIPATETIC Adj. Moving or walking about; itinerant

16. PERIPATETIC Mrs. Shivers paces PERIPATETICALLY around the room during lecture and discussion. Lila was exhausted after a PERIPATETIC shopping trip to the city. She walked from store to store to store all day long!

17. TRANSIENT Adj. lasting for only a short time; temporary

18. TRANSIENT The motel serves a TRANSIENT clientele. Few visitors stay for more than a night. The large number of houses for sale suggests that the population here is TRANSIENT.

19. TRANSITORY Adj. fleeting

20. TRANSITORY The morning fog is TRANSITORY. It burns off quickly. The joy of winning a game is a TRANSITORY feeling. It lasts only until the next game.

21. VOLATILE Adj. explosive or changing very quickly

22. VOLATILE Lou has a VOLATILE temper. He can turn angry in an instant. Careful where you store that can. It contains VOLATILE fuel that blows up when heated.