130 MCGRAW-HILL’S SAT
Unit 4 Exercise Sets II and III Answer Key
Exercise Set II
- GRANDIS: great, big
grandeur, grandparent,
grandiose, grandiloquent - SUB: under, secretly
subtle, subcutaneous, sublim-
inal, subterfuge, subservient,
subconscious - SUAVIS: agreeable, sweet
assuage, suave, sweet - PACIS: peace
pacifist, peace, pacify, pacific - SUMMUS: highest
summit, consummate, sum
6. APT: fit
inept, aptitude, apt, adapt
7. PUGNARE: to fight
pugnacity, impugn, pugna-
cious, repugnant
8. MIS: bad, wretched, hatred
miserly, miserable, misan-
thrope, miser, misery,
misogyny
9. DEXTER: skillful
dexterity, dexterous,
ambidextrous - TRACT: to pull
subtract, abstract, attract,
distract, contract, traction,
intractable, tractor - CULPA: blame
exculpate, inculpate, discul-
pate, culprit, culpable - MOLLIS: soft
emollient, mollify - THEOS: god
atheist, theology, enthusiasm,
pantheist, theocracy,
monotheism - PLACARE: to please
placate, placid, placebo,
complacent, complaisant,
plea, please, displease - PED: instruct
pedagogue, pedantic, pedant
Exercise Set III
- N
- Y
- N
- Y
- N
- charlatan
- pedantic
- hedonist
- agility
- infamous
- pilfer
- opulence
- vindicate
- odious
- exonerate or exculpate
- steadfast
- emollient
- machination
- bombastic
- curmudgeon
- despot
- adroit or adept
- dogged
- inexorable
- sybarite
- recalcitrance
- agile
- hypocritical
- anarchy
- vindicate
- malevolent
- pertinacity
- aptitude
- subterfuge
- assuage
- intractable
- mollify
- nefarious
- exculpate
- paragon
- miserly