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