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