100 Most Common SAT Words

jubilation extreme happiness, querulous irritable, prone to

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one side or the other, reclusive hermit, withdrawn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time, out of date convergence coming together fraught filled with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