Sat Test

In my last blog post I gave you a lengthy list of SAT vocabulary words to study and memorize. I hope you took advantage of your copy/paste option and saved them to a Word document in order to study them later.

As promised, here is another list of SAT vocabulary words for you to become familiar with and hopefully memorize.

abhor, abstemious, abstract, acquiesce, adversary, advocate, alleviate, ambiguous, ambivalent, amorphous, anachronistic, anecdote, arbitrary, archaic, articulate, ascendancy, assent, assiduous, astute, augment, auspicious, austere, autocratic, autonomy, avaricious, avuncular, behemoth, benefactor, benevolent, cantankerous, castigate, caustic, cliché, colloquial, commemorate, complacent, condone, conflagration, cryptic, definitive, delineate, desecrate, destitute, deterrent, detrimental, devious, diatribe, digress, dilatory, diminution, disdain, diverge, doff, don, draconian, ebullient, edify, egregious, eloquent, elusive, emissary, erudition, eschew, etymology, euphemism, evanescent, exalted, exemplary, exonerate, expatriate, expedite, extraneous, extricate, facilitate, fallow, feasible, florid, foolhardy, frivolous, furtive, germane, glutton, grandiose, gregarious, gullible, hierarchy, hyperbole, idiosyncrasy, idolatry, immutable, incongruous, incorrigible, indifferent, indomitable, ingenious, ingenuous, inherent, innovation, insurmountable, intractable, intrepid invoke, jovial, kinetic, laconic, laud, listless, loquacious, malice, mellifluous, mendicant, meticulous, miser, mitigate, mnemonic, mollify, morose, myopic, noxious, nurture, opaque, optimistic, parsimony, pecuniary, penury, perfidious, perpetual, pessimism, philanthropist, piecemeal, pine, platitude, posterity, potentate, precocious, privation, prodigal, profligate, profound, propensity, protégé, provincial, prudent, pugnacious, quiescent, raconteur, ramification, rancid, rancor, rebuff, rectify, rectitude, redolent, remedial, remiss, remunerative, reparations, replete, reprimand, reproach, rescind, respite, revile, rhetoric, ribald, robust, scant, scrutinize, seemly, serpentine, sluggish, sophomoric, staid, strident, subsidize, subtle, supercilious, superfluous, surreptitious, sycophant, taciturn, tempestuous, tenacious, tenet, tentative, theology, timorous, tirade, torpor, transcend, trite, truncate, utopia, venerate, veracity, verbose, verdant, vilify, virulent, volatile, wary, wane, whimsical, wistful

You may feel that there are too many words, it’s too much work and besides, they can’t all be on the SAT exam, right? Wrong. There aren’t too many vocabulary words here. It isn’t too much work. And although they probably won’t all be on the exam, do you want to take the chance that the ones you don’t study will be?

Simply learning the definitions might not be enough to stick their meanings in your brain. Try to use them during the day. Put them into sentences. Use them on your friends and family. Make a game of it if it will aid you in your memorization of the words. You may already know many of these words and if so, that’s great! You’re ahead of the game. Take the ones you don’t know and put them onto flash cards to study.

When I was studying for the vocabulary portion of the SAT I made a game of it with my friends. We’d see who could fit the most SAT vocabulary words into one conversation. That might sound nerdy, but it certainly was fun and it made learning the words much less tedious when we could laugh about it.

As always, my advice to you is prepare, prepare, prepare. Study, study, study.

If you’re preparing to study for your SAT vocabulary, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve talked about several methods for memorizing SAT vocabulary words and how to get the best results from your study efforts.

Now I’d like to give you list of vocabulary words that you’re likely to come across on the SAT vocabulary portion. Hopefully these words will help you in your studies. Feel free to take these words and study them. Copy them onto 3x5 index cards and use them as flash cards. I’m not giving you the definitions because I want you to look them up yourself. You learn best by doing, not by having things handed to you.

So here are some of the words you should learn:

abash, aboriginal, abridge, abstain, acrimonious, acrid, acute, adept, adhere, adorn, adroit, adulation, aesthetic, affable, agrarian, aloof, altruistic, amend, amiable, allure, amass, ambidextrous,, ample, anarchy, anathema, annul, anoint, antagonist, antiquated, appease, apprise, arduous, ascertain, ascetic, boorish, brazen, brevity, bucolic, bureauracracy, candor, cardinal, celibate, chagrin, chaste, clandestine, comprise, condescend, confidant, congenial, consecrate, contrite, cosmopolitan, coup, culpable, deleterious, despondent, dirge, disclose, dissident, distraught, dogmatic, ebb, eclectic, eccentric, elegy, embargo, embellish, eminent, empathy, enigma, enmity, entail, epitome, erratic, erroneous, esoteric, eulogy, exacerbate, expunge, extricate, facade, fallacious, fallible, fastidious, fatalist, feign, fractious, frenetic, frugal, garish, genial, hackneyed, harbinger, hedonist, impeccable, imperious, implicit, impudence, impunity, inane, indigent, innate, indolent, infamous, insipid, insurgent, insurrection, integral, introspective, jaded, judicious, lucid, ludicrous, magnanimous, magnate, malevolent, melancholy, mercenary, mercurial, misanthrope, morbid, mundane, muse, narcissist, nemesis, notoriety, nuance, oblivious, obsolete, omnipotent, omniscient, omnivorous, ornate, orthodox, ostentatious, ostracize, overt, palpable, paragon, pastoral, pathological, perspicacious, pertinent, pinnacle, pious, pithy, placate, plausible, pragmatic, precarious, pretentious, pristine, proliferation, prophetic, proponent, propriety, prosaic, prowess, pundit, quandary, quintessential, quixotic, raze, rebuttal, recluse, redundant, refute, regal, reiterate, reminisce, renown, requisite, resplendent, reticent, retribution, retroactive, revere, rue, rustic, sagacious, sacrilegious, sacrosanct, scrupulous, servile, skeptical, sporadic, stoic, subjugate, sublime, succinct, superficial, tangible, terse, transient, trepidation, unruly, vicarious, virtuoso, wily, zeal, zenith

Take these SAT vocabulary words and do your very best to use them, memorize them, make them your own. In my next blog post I’ll give you another list of SAT vocabulary words to study and memorize.

Remember that your eventual SAT score depends entirely upon the effort you make to study.