inspiring
Other forms: inspiringly
If you find something inspiring, it is stimulating your spirit and making you feel hopeful and ready to do something. Do you find documentaries about overcoming struggle inspiring, or is a sale at the mall more inspiring to you?
Inspiring is the adjective form of the verb inspire, which comes from the Latin word for "breath." When something is inspiring, it's as if the breath of life is coming into your body. People often describe religious experiences as inspiring, as well as stories about people who didn't give in to hardships that would have stopped other people. A majestic natural scene might be inspiring to you. An inspiring teacher gets her students excited about the subject.
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stimulating or exalting to the spiritantonyms:uninspiringdepressing to the spirit
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On the New SAT, all of the Reading Test questions are multiple choice and are based on reading passages that may be taken from literature, science, the social sciences, or a US founding document (or a text inspired by such a document). Many of the reading comprehension questions meant to assess a student’s understanding of those passages will require students to choose words that best describe the writer’s tone or point of view, words like the 200 words you see on this list. Learn them here so when you see them in an SAT answer choice, you’ll know what they mean! Here are all of our word lists to help you prepare for the new SAT (debuting March of 2016): The Language of the Test, Multiple-Meaning Words, and Words to Capture Tone.
On the SAT, all of the Reading Test questions are multiple choice and are based on reading passages that may be taken from literature, science, the social sciences, or a U.S. founding document (or a text inspired by such a document). Many of the reading comprehension questions meant to assess a student’s understanding of those passages will require students to choose words that best describe the writer’s tone or point of view, words like the 25 words you see on this list. Learn them here so when you see them in an SAT answer choice, you’ll know what they mean! Following our Roadmap to the SAT? Head back to see what else you should be learning this week.
In this nonfiction account, Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos trace the not-so-sweet history of sugar and its role in the slave trade.