Imminent | Some SAT Vocab Is About to Happen
Your success is IMMINENT!
Imminent is a pretty common word, maybe even considered an easy word, but in my days in the classroom, I did come across students who didn’t know what it meant. Basically, if something is imminent, it is just about to happen. And it’s usually something monumental, life-changing, urgent, or perhaps dangerous. For example, I wouldn’t say that my turning the light off is imminent, but I could say that a regime-change is imminent.
When I hear imminent, I think of, for example, a very heavy icicle that looks like it’s about to drop or a firecracker/alarm/mine about to go off.
Let’s learn a little more!
📚️ Definition of Imminent
Imminent (adjective): About to happen or occur at any moment; impending and likely to take place very soon. Example: an imminent arrival.
🗣️ Pronunciation of Imminent
IPA: /ˈɪ.mɪ.nənt/ (See IPA key)
Respelling: IH-mih-nuhnt
📰 Examples of Imminent
Here are some examples of the word imminent:
The storm clouds, accompanied by a sudden drop in temperature, made us confident that a thunderstorm was imminent.
During the Cold War, people all over the world thought a large-scale attack by one of the world’s nuclear powers on the other was imminent.
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