SAT Vocabulary List Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 1 Accolade Allusion Ambivalence Ambivalent Analogy

Anecdote Anomalous Apparition Aspersion Belligerence Bombastic Candid Capricious Cherished Cliche Conception Convoluted Credence Cryptic Currency Decorous Denunciation Derailed Derivative Despotic Detritus Diaphanous Dictum Dilettante Disdained Dispassionate Dowager Dubious Egalitarian Elicit Elliptical Epitomizes Equivocate Evasiveness Explicitly Foraging praise indirect reference uncertainty; having 'mixed' feelings unable to decide comparison short account of something interesting; story odd; not fitting the pattern ghost; something that 'appears' negative feeling; damaging remark aggression too elaborate; exaggerated truthful changeable; fickle cared for; firmly-held over-used expression 1. idea; view. 2. beginning of pregnancy complicated or long-winded belief hidden 1. widespread acceptance, 2. money good and correct (used of behavior) act of speaking out against thrown off course unoriginal acting like a tyrant rubbish very thin and transparent often-used saying person who dabbles in the arts showed contempt for unbiased; fair an elderly woman of elevate social status doubtful equal; believer in equality draw out (used mainly for information or feelings) 1. shaped like an ellipse, 2. indirect acts as a typical example of speak ambiguously/vaguely trying to avoid something very clear; nothing hidden searching for food

Hypothetical based on guesswork; not proven Iconoclast person who goes against accepted authority Idiosyncratic quirky; unique to an individual Imponderable cannot be understood Indecorous not well-behaved; lacking in dignity Indigence extreme poverty Inept clumsy Inherent inbuilt; genetic Intricate complicated Irrefutable cannot be proved wrong Jingoism using words to stir up exaggerated patriotism Jubilant joyful Judicious fair and equal Lament express regret over something Loquacious talkative; using too many words Mendicancy begging Metaphorical not literal; figurative Milieu environment; surroundings Mitigated made less severe Nascent just begun; in an early stage of development Nostalgia longing for the past Obtrusive easily seen Orthographical concerned with writing and spelling Ossified become fixed and rigid Ostentatious showy Palpable can be felt 1. concerned with the countryside, 2. concerned with the care a pastor gives to Pastoral someone Pedestrian 1. boring (adj), 2. person who walks (n) Perfidy treachery; betrayal Profligacy wasteful and immoral behavior Prohibitive very expensive Prudence wisdom; caution Pugnacious aggressive Purveyor one who sells something or causes something to spread Resonance echo Respite break (from work etc.) Resurgence revival Sparse thin; not thick Stringent strict Succumbing giving in to; falling under the influence of Supercilious arrogant Tenacity firmness of purpose Transcend go beyond a limit Variegated multicolored Venerable worthy of respect

Viable Visceral

workable; able to live or grow concerned with the 'guts'; physical rather than mental

Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 2 Ambivalent undecided; having 'mixed' feelings Apathy lack of energy or interest Autonomy self-government Benevolent kindly Blanched turned pale Bolster give support to Bucolic concerned with the countryside and farming Callous cruel and unfeeling Cantankerous bad tempered Capricious changeable; fickle Chicanery trickery; attempt to deceive Churlish ill-mannered Cohesive forming a whole; 'sticking' together Concur agree Cryptic hidden; obscure Decimation extensive destruction Deft skilful Delinquency wrong-doing Depravity moral corruption Desolate lonely; devoid of life; feeling very sad and hopeless Devoid of empty of Didactic intending to teach or give instructions Disingenuous crafty Dispassionate unbiased Disposition tendency; personality Dissent disagreement Effusive overly expressive of emotions; 'gushing' Endorse support Enigma puzzle Enumerate count out; list Ephemeral short-lived Erroneous wrong Erudition great knowledge or learning Esoteric obscure Fabrication something made up; untrue Facetious cheeky; not to be taken seriously Factions sides in a dispute; groups with common interests Flotsam floating rubbish Fostered encouraged Hackneyed stale and over-used

Harbored held [as in 'harbored and idea'] Hodgepodge strange mixture Hypothetical not proven; based on guesswork Impetuous impulsive Implacable cannot be appeased; relentless Impugned challenged; attacked in words Incorrigible cannot be corrected (of behavior) Indigenous native to a particular place Ineffable cannot be expressed in words Irascible easily angered Ironic unexpected Lament express regret Languid having no energy or interest Lassitude lack of energy Lugubrious mournful; very sad Mercurial rapidly changing Misnomer wrong name for something Mollified calmed; pacified Multifaceted having many aspects Mundane dull; ordinary Nostalgic longing for the past Obtrusive easily seen; 'sticking out' Omnipotent all powerful Pedagogy science of teaching Phlegmatic calm Plausible believable Precursor fore-runner; earlier version Preeminence fame; top position Pretentious putting on an act Prognosis outlook Prolific producing a lot Provocative provoking Raiment clothes; garments Reciprocate pay back Reconcile bring disputing side together again Remiss wrong Remonstrance criticism Resilient able to spring back; strong Retrenchment reducing staff or forces; conserving resources Robust firm and strong Skeptical doubtful Skewed distorted; bent Stringent strict Subtle not obvious Succinct clear, short and well-expressed Sundry miscellaneous

Sustenance Tenable Tenuous Torrid Undermine Underscore Unequivocal Vector Verbose Whimsical Wistful

support; food can be held (of an opinion, for example) shaky; not firm hot and steamy attempt to overthrow; weaken emphasize clear; cannot be misunderstood carrier (of disease, for example) wordy fickle; changeable full of sadness and longing

Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 3 Abashed ashamed or sorry Allusion indirect reference Ambivalent undecided; unclear Analogy comparison Anecdote short account/story Annihilated wiped out Anomalies oddities; things that don't fit the pattern Antipodes places on opposite sides of the globe Apprehension worry; nervousness Arduous hard and difficult Articulate (adj.) able to express something well in words Assuage to make less Auspicious fortunate; indicative of a successful outcome Avuncular acting like an uncle; kindly Axiom something that is taken to be true; basic idea that can't be questioned Banal dull; unoriginal Bellicose aggressive Benign kindly Bereft of without; deprived of Bifurcation division into two Blatantly obviously Cacophonous very noisy; unpleasant sounding Cantankerous irritable and difficult to please Captivating fascinating Chided scolded Clairvoyant able to see into the future/another dimension Coddled over-protected; kept warm Comely attractive Complacent smug; over-confident Conducive to suitable for; leading to Convivial sociable and friendly Cornucopia literally a horn filled with fruits etc; symbol of plenty Cosmopolitan composed of varied nationalities

faker; someone who makes fake money, for example decode; work out meaning showing respect something that puts one off; a preventive divisions into two parts shy; hesitant going off the point 1. able to make fine distinctions between; having good taste, 2. favoring one Discriminating side/group and acting against another Docile placid; easily lead Elite the upper levels in a society; the privileged ones Equitable fair and equal Equivocal ambiguous; something that can be interpreted in more than one way Exhilarating exciting Fathom 1. (v) work out; understand, 2. (n) measure of depth Fervent passionate Filial concerned with the relationship between child and parent Foreboding sense of doom Funerary concerned with funerals Galvanized 1. stirred into action; stimulated, 2. coated with zinc Grandiose exaggerated; too great; on a grand scale Haughty arrogant Hilarious very funny Hyperbole over-exaggeration Impetuous impulsive Indecipherable cannot be decoded; cannot be worked out Irresolute lacking firmness; inability to decide or commit Levity lack of seriousness; humor Loquacious talkative Mediocre average Mellifluous pleasant-sounding Metaphor figurative speech; using implied comparisons Miscreants wrong-doers Mitigated made less severe Naive unsophisticated; simple and inexperienced Nonchalant assuming an appearance of not caring; indifferent Obliterated wiped out Ousted pushed out of a position Pacifists people who oppose war Panacea remedy for all ills Paradoxically counter to what one would think; contradictory Personification 1. attributing human qualities to something non-human, 2. acting as an example of Perusal careful reading Placid calm and peaceful Presumptuous assuming too much; arrogant Profiteer someone who seeks to make unjustified profits

Counterfeiter Decipher Deferential Deterrent Dichotomies Diffident Digression

Propagandist someone who spreads ideas Proximity closeness Qualification something added to modify an opinion Reconcile bring disputing sides together; overcome bad feeling Respite break from work etc. Reticent shy; unwilling to reveal information Reverential showing respect Revisionists people who revise; anti-revolutionaries Sanctimonious hypocritically holy; making a pretense of religious feeling Stoic brave; able to tolerate whatever life throws at you Symbiotic mutually advantageous; close relationship Syncopated with strongly accented rhythm Tacit unspoken; understood even thought not expressed in words Taunted teased; mocked Temperate mild; moderate Understatement making something seem less important than it is Unqualified without hesitation; complete and total Unrelenting never giving up; non-stop Unwarranted unjustified Watershed 1. area between two river basins, 2. turning point Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 4 Advocate support Ambiguous vague Animosity hostility; hatred Boorishness rudeness; ill-mannered behavior Censure blame; criticize Concord agreement Conflagration big fire Consecrated dedicated; made holy Consummate supremely good Contagious passed on through touch; infectious Cursory superficial Dalliance non-serious involvement; toying or playing with something Deleterious harmful Disparaging critical Dubious doubtful Equitable fair and equal Eulogy praise Fastidious very fussy; excessively concerned (esp. about cleanliness) Fidelity faithfulness; loyalty Formidable inspiring awe Futile useless; waste of time and effort Futility uselessness Holistic whole; entire (Holistic viewpoint = seeing things as a whole) Idiosyncratic quirky; eccentric; unique to an individual

Ineffable cant be expressed in words Infelicity unsuitability; inappropriateness Integrity honor; honesty Intermittent on and off; not continuous Judicious fair; wise Legitimate to make legal; give approval to Mercenary seeking money above all else Meticulous thorough; taking care of details Petulant sulky Polarized divided into two extremes Pragmatism practicality Presumptive presumed Propensity tendency; leaning predilection Prosaic ordinary Quelled suppressed Regressive moving backwards (literal or metaphoric) Remiss neglectful Rhetoric persuasive language Sedulous thorough; eager Sermonized gave moral lecture Shroud 1. a cover for dead body, 2. to cover Steadfastness loyalty; firmness of purpose Temporize put off; procrastinate Treacly too sweet; over sentimental Vacillated wavered; hesitated Vindication proving right Vindictive seeking revenge

Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 5 Abstruse difficult to comprehend Acumen sharpness of mind Adroit skilful Anachronistic out of normal time range Arcane obscure; known only to few people Autonomy self-government Belittlers people who criticize/disparage Byzantine excessive; decadent Consecration dedication Corollary consequence; inference Curtail cut short Debunkers people who expose/throw out old ideas Devious cunning Didactic intending to preach or teach Effacement wiping out; (self-effacement = excessive modesty)

Egotistical selfish Embodiment living example of Epitome essence; typical example or symbol of Esoteric obscure Extrapolated predicted on the basis of existing data; extended Foster encourage Inane silly Incoherence lack of clarity Inconspicuous not easily seen Indiscriminate without thought; random; careless Ingenuous nave Insolence lack of respect; rudeness Insurrectionists rebels Intemperance lack of moderation Irreverence lack of respect Jeopardize put at risk Lackadaisical lazy; careless; lax Lucid clear Magnanimity generosity (of spirit) Multifarious having many aspects Nefarious infamous Onerous burdensome Opportunism grabbing opportunities; seeking unprincipled advantage Ornate highly decorated Precursor forerunner Proponents supporters Resolute firm of purpose Sanctity holiness Seditious causing division or rebellion Slipshod careless; untidy Solicitousness expressing care/concern Sophistry devious logic Substantiate give supporting evidence Subversive intending to overthrow Sustain support Tenacious holding firmly to idea or purpose Volatile 1. evaporates easily, 2. easily angered; emotional

Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 6 Adroit skilful (Maladroit = clumsy) Agnostic unsure of the existence of god Ameliorating making better Arboreal living in trees Ascertain find out; make sure Barrage bombardment; stream (of abuse etc.)

Belabor over-emphasizing Brevity briefness Cacophony noise; din Censured blamed Circumvent avoid Coerced forced Condoning tolerating Congenial friendly; sociable; suitable Demagogues mob leaders; agitators Disparaged criticized Docile tame; subservient Eclectic taking things from different sources Elitist favoring top group; snob Elusive difficult to pin down Empiric found by experiment/practice Endorsed supported Envisioning imagining, predicting Extolled praised Foster support; encourage Furtiveness secretiveness Gluttonous greedy Indictment charge; legal accusation Indigenous native to a locality Irreproachable cannot be criticized. (Reproach = criticize) Knack trick; skill Libelous open to prosecution for libel (Libel = written slander) Naivet innocence; lack of worldliness Nihilism belief in nothing; anarchy Paucity shortage Penchant tendency; leaning toward Perquisites perks Phobic fearful Pilfer steal Pliant flexible Predilection liking for; penchant Presumption assuming too much Profundity depth (of ideas) Quixotic idealistic; impractical Reclusive avoiding other people; solitary Rehash revamp hurriedly/carelessly Repertoire range; set of skills Repertory story; stock; repertoire Reprehensible very bad Sarcasm sneering, bitter remarks; ironic or taunting Supple flexible; pliant; lithe Temperamental volatile; changeable

Transitory Tribulations Unwitting Venality Vulnerable

shot-lived troubles not deliberate corruption open to attack; susceptible

Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 7 Aberration deviation; abnormality Abstruse difficult to comprehend Affability friendliness; cordiality Affluence wealth and status Alleviation making less severe Amalgamation mixture or joining of different components Amassed accumulated Arcane esoteric Augmenting increasing in size or number Belied contradicted Benevolent kindly Callous cruel and unfeeling Candid truthful; honest Coalition a union of two parts Concordance agreement Conflagration big fire Copious in large amounts Dearth shortage Debacle disaster Disarming charming; unthreatening Disillusioned freed from wrong ideas Disparaging criticizing Embellished decorated Empathetic understanding in an insightful way Encompassed included; surrounded Endorsement support; approval Entourage group of followers; retinue Equanimity peace of mind; balance; calm Eradicating wiping out; destroying Esoteric obscure Exacerbated made worse Excised cut out Exotic strange; foreign Faction section; group with common interests Finagle wheedle; wangle; trick Grating harsh; rasping Gratuitous free; unwarranted

Hackneyed Insightful Insolence Intrigued Intuition Languid Lobby Lucid Marred Meager Monotonous Motley Opting Overhaul Preclude Precursors Purportedly Ratify Resilience Retraction Sporadic Spurned Substantiated Supplant Truculence Unequivocal Voluminous Winnow

commonplace; over-used perceptive rudeness interested and curious sixth sense; gut feeling lacking energy; weak 1. to try to persuade, 2. entrance hall clear spoiled; ruined small; scanty dull; repetitive varied; miscellaneous choosing renovate prevent forerunners apparently claiming give official approval to strength; ability to withstand removal; taking back intermittent; on and off shunned; rejected backed up; given supporting evidence replace stubbornness certain; cannot be disputed large; bulky; extensive sift; separate good from bad

Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 8 Alacrity speed and eagerness Amiable friendly; lovable Apathetic lacking energy or interest Bypasses avoids; finds a way around Capricious whimsical; changeable Censures blames Conciliatory seeking compromise Convergence coming together Cumulative building up Deferment putting off Deliberation careful thought Delineates outlines Derelict rundown; abandoned Discrepancy inconsistency

Embittered full of bitter feelings Encroaching trespassing Eradicate wipe out Exacerbates makes worse Exasperation frustration and annoyance Exorbitant excessive Flabbergasted shocked; speechless Foil for person that shows another to advantage Frugal economical Glacial icy; unfriendly Grimy dirty Inconsequential unimportant Indiscernible not easy to see Infusion influx Integrity honesty Jaded tired; bored Juxtaposition placing two thing nest to each other Lithe flexible Miffed annoyed Mitigator moderator Modicum tiny amount Negate wipe out Nondescript having no special qualities; ordinary Penurious miserly Phlegmatic calm; imperturbable Razing cutting down Recrimination blame Reprieve let off (at least temporarily) Rousing stirring Salvageable can be saved Scouring cleaning thoroughly; thorough searching Secluded lonely; isolated Solace comfort Squelch suppress; crush Stifling suppressing Surfeit excess Tangential off the point; irrelevant Temper moderate Tremulous hesitant Unyielding not giving up Vigilant wary; watchful Waning declining Warped twisted; distorted Wary cautious Wrath anger

Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 9 Alleviate make less severe Amalgam mixture Astute wise; mentally sharp Autonomous self-governing Belied contradicted Callousness cruelty; unfeeling behavior Circumstantial accidental; indirect (as in circumstantial evidence) Corroborated supported; given supporting evidence Credulity belief Debilitated weakened Deliberation careful thought Denuded stripped Derided mocked Despoiled spoiled Dilatory slow; sluggish Dispatch speed and eagerness Empathetic exhibiting deep emotional understanding Eradicate wipe out Estrangement separation Expeditious speedy Extant still in existence Flag 1. to lose energy, 2. to signal Foundered sank Fraudulent crooked; intending to cheat Hubris excessive pride Idiosyncratic eccentric Impetuosity impulsiveness Impudent cheeky Indomitable unshakeable; fearless Innocuous harmless Insolvent bankrupt Irresolute lacking firmness of purpose; hesitant Irreverent lacking respect Manipulative deceptive; skilful at handling people Morbidity concern with death and disease Myopic short-sighted (literal or metaphoric) Occlusion shutting out Officious interfering Peevishness childish sullenness; irritability Placid peaceful Prudent wise; cautious Punctilious meticulous Rambunctious boisterous Rancor bitterness and bad feeling

Scrutinize Scuttled Sedate Serene Squander Validated Valor Vulnerable

examine carefully sunk calm; placid peaceful waste proved right bravery open to attack; susceptible

Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 10 Adroitness skill Altruism self-sacrifice Arbitration mediating between disputing sides Archaic old-fashioned Aural through the sense of hearing Cognitions mental knowledge Discernment judgment; Disingenuous crafty Distension swelling Egotists selfish people Emancipators those who set others free Enigmas puzzles Erudition learning; scholarly knowledge Exemplars excellent examples of Exonerated proved not guilty Extirpation destruction Fawning groveling; sucking up to people Finesse skill Fitful intermittent; on and off; not continuous Gestures signals Hilarity great laughter Husbandry careful management of resources Ignominy shame Ineptitude lack of ability Insipid flavorless; bland Intuitions gut feelings Invocation prayer Irony something unexpected; use of words to convey opposite meaning Lackadaisical lazy Lamentable regrettable Mandate permission Manifesto statement of values Modicum tiny amount Notoriety infamy

Obsequious Opulence Pathos Plaudits Prospectus Raze Rectitude Reprimanded Rudimentary Sarcasm Soporific Stipulated Tactile Tenacity Versatility Vicarious

groveling lavish display of wealth sadness; stirring the emotions praise brochure knock down uprightness scolded elementary; basic mockery sleep-inducing insisted through the sense of touch firmness of purpose ability to do many things experienced indirectly; at secondhand