Car Conversation

M: "My vocabulary sucks, but I guess I can just study words for the SAT"
F: "I think the flash cards will ameliorate the problem."
M: "What's ameliorate?"
F: "An SAT word"
M: "Daaad!"
S: "At least it's not like my dad. He uses these big words and then asks me what the Greek and Latin roots of them are."
F: "Cool, now I can do that too and you can't say 'none of my friends' parents make them do that.' "
M: "Daaad!"