Some SAT vocab for you: TANTALIZE TANTALIZE means: attract, entice, or torment with the promise of something desirable but not likely to reachable or attainable (Ex: Lotteries tantalize people with the chance to win millions of dollars.). Example: Although Ive not been a victim of this scam, nor even seen it in action, Ive heard of it. It works like this--the scam artist waits at a busy intersection where traffic backs up cars, thus keeping them stalled for a few seconds, but only a few seconds. The scammer suddenly appears, seemingly out of nowhere, holding what appears to be the original packaging of an expensive consumer item, say a high-end notebook computer. The neer-do-well, hoping to make a quick buck, offers to sell the box to the driver of the car for a very low price, say $20 to $50. The victim, tantalized by the offer of a shiny new computer, perhaps after feeling the heft of the box, figures hell take the scammer up on the offer, figuring he has only a few dollars to lose if the deal goes south. Soon the traffic light turns green, drivers are blowing their horns, and the victim feels pressured to drive off, perhaps pulling over to examine his loot, only to find rocks or a telephone book inside. Vocab quiz question on this word will be posted soon, so come back! Or visit new.testmagic/vocab/tantalize now.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:14:48 +0000
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