SAT Words – List of SAT Vocabulary Words

  • Abandon

    • give up completely

  • Abate

    • become less intense or widespread

  • Abet

    • encourage or assist

  • Accede

    • accent or agree to a demand

  • Berate

    • scold or criticize

  • Bovine

    • of or relating to cattle

  • Braggart

    • a person who boasts about achievements

  • Burnish

    • polish by rubbing

  • Cache

    • a collection of similar items stored in a secret place

  • Cacophony

    • harsh discordant mixture of sounds

  • Catalyst

    • substance the increases the rate of chemical reaction

  • Censorious

    • severely critical of others

  • Dearth

    • scarcity or lack of something

  • Demagogue

    • A political orator

  • Diluvial

    • of or relating to a flood

  • Dispassionate

    • not influenced by strong emotion

  • Effluvia

    • an unpleasant or harmful odor

  • Emulate

    • match or surpass

  • Epochal

    • extremely significant

  • Expound

    • explain or present

  • Facile

    • Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense

  • Fictive

    • created by imagination

  • Flippant

    • not showing serious attitude

  • Gauche

    • lacking grace

  • Gregarious

    • outgoing or social

  • Grotto

    • small cave or cave-like structure

  • Hedonist

    • Someone devoted to hedonism

  • Heretical

    • practicing religious heresy

  • Hubris

    • excessive pride

  • Hypocrite

    • a person who says one thing and does another

  • Ignoble

    • not honorable in character

  • Imbibe

    • drink alcohol

  • Imperious

    • assuming power without justification

  • Importunate

    • persistant

  • Jettison

    • throw or drop for an airplane or ship

  • Jocular

    • humorous or playful

  • Junta

    • military group that rules after taking by force

  • Kismet

    • destiny

  • Lexicon

    • vocabulary of a person

  • Licentious

    • immoral

  • Limber

    • flexible

  • Loquacious

    • talkative

  • Malapropism

    • The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word

  • Malfeasance

    • wrongdoing

  • Mawkish

    • sentimental in a sickening way

  • Misnomer

    • wrong or inaccurate name in designation

  • Modicum

    • small or minimal portion

  • Mote

    • tiny piece of a substance

  • Necromancy

    • practice of communicating with the dead

  • Nihilism

    • rejection of religion

  • Nomenclature

    • the choosing of names for things

  • Novel

    • fictitious prose narrative

  • Obfuscate

    • to confuse

  • Olfactory

    • of or relating to the sense of smell

  • Opprobrious

    • compressing scorn

  • Ostracize

    • exclude from a society or group

  • Palatial

    • resembling a palace

  • Pandemic

    • disease prevalent over an entire country or countries

  • Paramount

    • more important than anything else

  • Patrician

    • an aristocrat

  • Polyglot

    • knowing or using several languages

  • Prestidigitation

    • magic tricks performed for entertainment

  • Provincial

    • A person belonging to a province

  • Rancor

    • bitterness or resentfulness

  • Rarefy

    • to make or become more dense or solid

  • recapitulate

    • summarize and state again the main points

  • Refute

    • prove to be wrong or false

  • Repose

    • a state of rest

  • Resilient

    • able to withstand

  • Revile

    • criticize in an abusive manner

  • Rife

    • of common occurrence

  • Sanctimonious

    • making a show of being morally superior

  • Scrupulous

    • diligent attention to details

  • Sedition

    • conduct or speech inciting people to rebel

  • Sinecure

    • position requiring little or no work

  • Stint

    • supply inadequate amount of something

  • Sybarite

    • self indulgent person

  • Tawdry

    • showy but cheap

  • Tenacious

    • keep a firm hold on something

  • Terse

    • sparing in use of words

  • Tout

    • attempt to sell something by aggressively pestering

  • Trounce

    • defeat heavily in a contest

  • Tutelage

    • authority over someone or something

  • Unconscionable

    • not right or reasonable

  • Untoward

    • unexpected

  • Usury

    • lending money at unlawful rates

  • Vehemently

    • showing strong feeling

  • Veritable

    • using as an intensifier

  • Vilify

    • write or speak in an abusively disparaging way

  • Vociferous

    • vehement

  • Wan

    • pale with appearance of illness

  • Wield

    • hold and use typically a weapon or tool

  • Winsome

    • attractive appearance or character

  • Wry

    • using dry or mocking humor

  • Xenophobe

    • fear or dislike for people of different countries

  • Yeoman

    • a man holding and cultivating a field

  • Yen

    • Japanese monetary unit

  • Yowl

    • loud waining cry

  • Zenith

    • peak

  • Zephyr

    • soft gentle breeze