1000 Most Common SAT Words - A - Vocabulary List

Aug 25, 2026

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1000 Most Common SAT Words provides an SAT-focused vocabulary list organized alphabetically, starting with the letter A. Each entry includes the word’s part of speech and a concise definition, followed by a short example sentence that illustrates usage in context. The material is designed for rapid review and building reading comprehension by connecting common test vocabulary to practical meanings and typical sentence patterns.

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Reading Time2 h 56 min

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abase

abate

abdicate

abduct

aberration

abet

abhor

abide

abject

abjure

abnegation

abort

abridge

abrogate

abscond

absolution

abstain

abstruse

accede

accentuate

accessible

acclaim

accolade

accommodating

accord

accost

accretion

acerbic

acquiesce

acrimony

acumen

acute

adamant

adept

The 1000 Most Common SAT Words A abase (v.) to humiliate, degrade (After being overthrown andabased, the deposed leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.) abate (v.) to reduce, lessen (The rain poured down for a while, then abated.) abdicate (v.) to give up a position, usually one of leadership (When he realized that the revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.) abduct (v.) to kidnap, take by force (The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her happy home.) aberration (n.) something that differs from the norm (In 1918, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, but the success turned out to be an aberration, and theRed Sox have not won a World Series since.) abet (v.) to aid, help, encourage (The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the inside to abet him.) SAT Vocabulary SAT Vocabulary A abhor (v.) to hate, detest (Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport.) abide 1. (v.) to put up with (Though he did not agree with the decision, Chuck decided to abide by it.) 2. (v.) to remain (Despite the beating they’ve taken from the weather throughout the millennia, the mountains abide.) abject (adj.) wretched, pitiful (After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject.) abjure (v.) to reject, renounce (To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil policies of his wicked predecessor.) abnegation (n.) denial of comfort to oneself (The holy man slept on the ﬂoor, took only cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.) abort (v.) to give up on a half-ﬁnished project or effort (After they ran out of food, the men, attempting to jump rope around the world, had to abort and go home.) abridge 1. (v.) to cut down, shorten (The publisher thought the dictionary was too long and abridged it.) 2. (adj.) shortened (Moby-Dick is such a long book that even the abridged version is longer than most normal books.) abrogate (v.) to abolish, usually by authority (The Bill of Rights assures that the government cannot abrogate our right to a free press.) abscond (v.) to sneak away and hide (In the confusion, the super-spy absconded into the night with the secret plans.) absolution (n.) freedom from blame, guilt, sin (Once all the facts were known, the jury gave Angela absolution by giving a verdict of not guilty.) abstain (v.) to freely choose not to commit an action (Everyone demanded that Angus put on the kilt, but he did not want to do it and abstained.) abstruse (adj.) hard to comprehend (Everyone else in the class understood geometry easily, but John found the subject abstruse.) accede (v.) to agree (When the class asked the teacher whether they could play baseball instead of learn grammar they expected him to refuse, but instead he acceded to their request.) accentuate (v.) to stress, highlight (Psychologists agree that those people who are happiest accentuate the positive in life.) A accessible (adj.) obtainable, reachable (After studying with SparkNotes and getting a great score on the SAT, Marlena happily realized that her goal of getting into an Ivy-League college was accessible.) acclaim (n.) high praise (Greg’s excellent poem won the acclaim of his friends.) accolade (n.) high praise, special distinction (Everyone offered accolades to Sam after he won the Noble Prize.) accommodating (adj.) helpful, obliging, polite (Though the apartment was not big enough for three people, Arnold, Mark, and Zebulon were all friends and were accommodating to each other.) accord (n.) an agreement (After much negotiating, England and Iceland ﬁnally came toa mutually beneﬁcial accord about ﬁshing rights off the cost of Greenland.) accost (v.) to confront verbally (Though Antoinette was normally quite calm, when the waiter spilled soup on her for the fourth time in 15 minutes she stood up and accosted the man.) accretion

FAQs

How are the SAT words in this material organized?

The words are arranged alphabetically. The excerpt shows entries starting from the letter A, each with its own definition and example sentence.

What information is provided for each vocabulary word?

Each entry includes the word’s part of speech, a direct definition, and a short example sentence demonstrating how the word is used.

How can this vocabulary list help with SAT reading?

By practicing common SAT words with contextual examples, it supports faster recognition of meanings and improves comprehension when these terms appear in passages.

Aug 25, 2026

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