SAT Vocabulary List
Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 3
| Abashed | ashamed or sorry |
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| 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 |
| Counterfeiter | faker; someone who makes fake money, for example |
| Decipher | decode; work out meaning |
| Deferential | showing respect |
| Deterrent | something that puts one off; a preventive |
| Dichotomies | divisions into two parts |
| Diffident | shy; hesitant |
| Digression | going off the point |
| Discriminating | 1. able to make fine distinctions between; having good taste, 2. favoring one 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 |
| 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 |
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