This document defines and provides examples for three SAT vocabulary words: destitute, meaning without basic necessities; fervor, meaning intense or passionate feeling; and diatribe, meaning a forceful and bitter verbal attack. It gives pictures and sentences to illustrate the meaning of each word.

1. SAT VOCABULARY

2. DESCRIBE THE PICTURES:

3. DESTITUTE (ADJ):
Without the basic necessities of life.
(penniless, poor, impoverished)

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5. FERVOR (NOUN):
Intense or passionate feeling
(passion, zeal, ardor)

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7. DIATRIBE (NOUN):
a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or
something.
(rant, tirade)

8. The destitute family
begged for money
because they could
not buy food or
clothing.

9. In the United States, many destitute people are
homeless.

10. The noisy crowd at the protest rally was full of fervor
and excitement.

11. Successful politicians speak with fervor to win voter
support.

12. The First Amendment protects this man’s right to preach his
religion with fervor on the street.

13. The man launched into a diatribe
when the thief stole his bicycle.

14. When the umpire called the runner out, the coach
confronted the referee with a diatribe about his eyesight.

15. I was angry after my friend broke my Nintendo, so I
gave him a diatribe about responsibility.