helping you remember SAT definitions... the dirty way

deride


        deride (v.) – to ridicule; to scorn

for your edification:  Well, to help remember this one, you’re gonna have to be kind of a jerk.  I’d like you, please, to envision a girl  - nice though she may be – a girl known for her promiscuous reputation.  You know – the kind of girl that some may disparagingly call a “slut.”  Yuck.  What a gross word that is.  Anyway, this girl you are picturing, imagine that others really make fun of her.  They really ridicule her.  In fact, they just plain scorn her.  How?  People that know her call her “Da Ride.”  Da Ride!  It’s kind of clever, really, to deride a slooty (so much nicer than slutty, don’t you think?) girl by calling her “Da Ride”, but it’s pretty terrible at the same time to ridicule and scorn a promiscuous girl by calling her “Da Ride.”  Whatever.  Perhaps “Da Ride” enjoys her lifestyle, and perhaps using her nickname to help you remember that deride means “to ridicule” will help you raise your SAT score.  Here’s hoping! 

examplification -  Patty:  I’m sorry to tell you this, Lisa, but because of your seemingly skanky behavior after Oxface's party last night, everyone in school is deriding you by calling you “Da Ride.”

Lisa:  They can ridicule and deride me if they like; I think Da Ride is a frackin dope as hell nickname, and I’m gonna rock it.

Patty:  You go, Da Ride.

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