HOT WORDS for the SAT
List #: 10582
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Publisher: Barrons.
Author: Linda Carnevale, M.A..
Subject: SAT.
Grade Level: 11.
Isbn: 0-7641-3632-1.
Created: 04/09/2012
Modified: 04/09/2012
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CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE (9 words)
brevity, concise, laconic, pithy, quiescent, reticent, succinct, taciturn, terse
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MAKING THINGS BETTER BUNCH (12 words)
allay, alleviate, ameliorate, appease, assuage, conciliate, mediate, mitigate, mollify, pacify, placate, quell
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MOLE HILLS OR MOUNTAINS? (12 words)
adversity, conflagration, confounding, cryptic, debacle, enigma, labyrinth, precarious, quagmire, quandary, turbulence, turmoil
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PENNY-PINCHING TIGHTWAD? (8 words)
austere, avaricious, frugal, mercenary, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, thrifty
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THAT'S ALL BEEN SAID BEFORE! BORING ? ZZZZ (10 words)
banal, derivative, hackneyed, insipid, lackluster, mundane, platitude, prosaic, trite, vapid
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THE BAD, THE VERY BAD, AND THE BADDEST (12 words)
baneful, deleterious, detrimental, devious, iniquitous, malicious, nefarious, odious, ominous, pernicious, rancorous, virulent
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THE CANTANKEROUS CLUSTER (11 words)
animosity, antagonism, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, captious, contentious, disputatious, polemical, predator, pugnacious
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THE CONVIVIAL CLUSTER (9 words)
affable, amiable, amicable, congenial, convivial, cordial, gregarious, jocular, levity
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THE GIVING GROUP (9 words)
altruistic, benevolent, largess, lavish, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, prodigal, squander
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THE HIGH AND MIGHTY (14 words)
arrogant, braggart, complacent, contemptuous, disdainful, egotistical, haughty, insolent, narcissistic, ostentatious, presumptuous, pretentious, supercilious, swagger
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THE RUNAWAY MOUTH (16 words)
bombastic, circumlocution, colloquial, diffuse, diffuse, digress, eloquence, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, prattle, ramble, rant, rhetorical, verbose, voluble
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YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT! (12 words)
berate, carp, castigate, censure, chastise, deprecate, deride, impugn, rebuff, rebuke, reprove, upbraid