SAT Vocab List - 100 Most Common SAT Words

Sep 14, 2026

SAT vocabulary list with definitions and example-learning suggestions aimed at helping students become “College & Career Ready.” The material includes short instructional tips such as making flashcards, using words in sentences, recording readings, and categorizing terms by sentiment and relationships. It provides a broad set of high-frequency SAT words such as abate, abdicate, benevolent, bias, amicable, anachronistic, adversity, and numerous others with concise meaning cues for study and review.

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SAT Vocabulary List

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jubilation lobbyist longevity mundane nonchalant opulent orator ostentatious parched perfidious pragmatic precocious pretentious procrastinate prosaic prosperity provocative prudent extreme happiness, person who takes one side or the other, and persuades government officials long (particularly long life) boring, ordinary casual, calm, at ease wealthy speaker flaunting wealth freed from water, dried up disloyal practical gifted/talented be being self important, thinking you are to delay, often unnec ordinary wealth causes a fuss, inflammatory, likely to get careful, wise querulous rancorous reclusive reconciliation renovation restrained reverence sagacity scrutinize spontaneous spurious submissive substantiate subtle superficial superfluous surreptitious tactful tenacious transient venerable vindicate wary irritable, prone to argument rancorous hermit, withdrawn coming back together after a disagreement being new, being redone controlled, not free deep respect wisdom to look at carefully being impulsive, acting without thinking false, untrue mild, meek to confirm, prove shy, small, not showy shallow unnecessary, too much secret polite Persistent, stubborn temporary, imperma respectable because of its age to free from blame careful, watchful 100 Most Common SAT Words It’s the goal of Newton County School System to ensure that each and every student is“College & Career Ready” upon graduation. These words will assist your child in meeting this goal. Below, are tips to make this learning experience meaningful and fun! 􀁸 Make flashcards with unfamiliar words 􀁸 Use new vocabulary words in a sentence 􀁸 Make a tape recording of yourself reading the word and the definition 􀁸 List the words in groups of positive, negative and related words abate abdicate abhor abstain adversity aesthetic amicable anachronistic arid asylum benevolent bias boisterous brazen brusque camaraderie canny capacious capitulate clairvoyant collaborate reduce or lessen give up a position to really hate to refrain from doing something hardship, misfortune pertaining to beauty agreeable out of the context of time, out of date very dry sanctuary, place of safety friendly, helpful a prejudice towards something or against something enthusiastic, loud bold short, rude togetherness, trust, group dynamic of trust careful very large, spacious surrender can predict the future work together compassion compromise condescending conditional conformist convergence deleterious demagogue digression diligent discredit disdain divergent empathy emulate enervating ephemeral evanescent: sympathy meeting in the mid dle, settling differences patronizing contingent upon something else, contingent upon someone who follows the majority coming together harmful rabble-rousing leader straying from main point hard-working, dedicated dishonor someone, prove something untrue to regard with scorn moving apart, going in different direction feeling someone else’s feeling following someone else's example tiring fleeting, temporary not lasting long exemplary extenuating florid forbearance fortitude fortuitous foster fraught frugal hackneyed haughty hedonist hypothesis impetuous impute inconsequential inevitable intrepid intuitive outstanding something that makes the situation not as bad ornate patience, restraint strength lucky promote, aid filled with thrifty clichéd being arrogant, talking down to people person who acts in pursuit of pleasure unproven theory, educated guess, rash, impulsive to assign or attribute to someone without consequence, trivial, doesn't matter unavoidable, definitely going to happen fearless knowing something by instinct

FAQs

What study tips does the vocabulary handout recommend for learning SAT words?

It suggests making flashcards, using new words in sentences, recording yourself reading the word and definition, and listing words in groups such as positive, negative, and related terms.

What kind of words are included in this list?

The document provides a set of high-frequency SAT vocabulary items, including words like abate, abdicate, abhor, benevolent, bias, and others.

How can students use the list to improve during SAT preparation?

Students can review the definitions, practice saying the words aloud with recordings, and apply the vocabulary by writing sentences using each word.

Sep 14, 2026

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