SAT Vocabulary: Unit One- Negotiation
1. Accede: to give one’s consent
2. Arbitrator: A person chosen to settle an issue between two parties
3. Concord: Harmony or agreement of interests and feelings
4. Intractable: Difficult to manage; stubborn
5. Obdurate: Not giving in to persuasion.
6. Obsequious: full or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning
7. Obstinate: Stubbornly adhering to an attitude
8. Oscillate: To waver between conflicting sides
9. Reciprocity: A cooperative exchange of favors or privileges
10. Resolute: Firm or determined
SAT Vocabulary: Unit Two-Moods and Dispositions
1. Ambivalence: uncertainty as to which course to follow
2. Amorous: Strongly attracted or disposed to love
3. Taciturn: Habitually untalkative
4. Apathy: Lack of emotion or feeling
5. Despondent: dejected
6. Euphoria: A feeling of great happiness
7. Indifferent: Having no marked feeling for or against
8. Lachrymose: Weeping; tearful
9. Resilient: Marked by the ability to recover quickly
10. Timorous: Timid
SAT Vocabulary: Unit Three-Money, Money, Money
1. Abscond: to leave quickly and to hide oneself; often to avoid prosecution
2. Affluent: generously supplied with possessions
3. Copious: yielding or containing plenty
4. Destitute: Completely impoverished
5. Impecunious: Lacking money, penniless
6. Modicum: A small, moderate amount
7. Ostentatious: Pretentious
8. Pecuniary: Of or relating to money
9. Penury: Extreme want or poverty
SAT Vocabulary: Unit Four-Speaking of Words
1. Aphorism: a tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion
2. Colloquial: Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language; informal
3. Misnomer: an error in naming a person or place
4. Malapropism: ludicrous misuse of a word
5. Neologism: a new word or expression
6. Obfuscate: to make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to understand
7. Recondite: not easily understood; abstruse
8. Succinct: characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse
9. Terse: brief and to the point
10. Verbose: using or containing an excessive amount of words; wordy
SAT Vocabulary: Unit Five-Bad Reputations
1. Ignoble: Not noble in quality, character, or purpose
2. Licentious: lacking moral discipline or ignoring legal restraint.
3. Malevolent: having or exhibiting ill-will
4. Malicious: deliberately harmful
5. Miscreant: a villain
6. Nefarious: infamous by being wicked
7. Notoriety: ill fame
8. Pugnacious: combative in nature; belligerent
9. Reprehensible: blameworthy
10. Ruffian: a tough or rowdy person
SAT Vocabulary: Unit Six-Admirable Traits and Tendencies
1. Affable: easily approachable
2. Benignant: favorable, beneficial
3. Genial: having a pleasant or friendly disposition
4. Judicious: having or exhibiting sound judgment
5. Magnanimous: courageously noble in mind and heart
6. Munificent: generous
7. Philanthropic: organized to provide humanitarian assistance
8. Sang-froid: coolness and composure especially in trying circumstances
9. Prudent: wise in handling practical matters
10. Unflappable: persistently calm; not easily upset or excited
SAT Vocabulary: Unit Seven-Conflict
1. Acrimonious: bitter and sharp in language
2. Cataclysm: a violent upheaval that causes great destruction
3. Contentious: given to contention; quarrelsome
4. Discordant: not being in accord; conflicting
5. Imbroglio: a difficult or intricate situation
6. Indomitable: incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished
7. Rectify: to set right
8. Trenchant: forceful, effective, and vigorous
9. Truculence: a disposition or apparent disposition to fight
10. Vexation: the act of annoying, irritating, or vexing
SAT Vocabulary: Unit Eight-Shapes, Locations, and Physical Qualities
1. Amorphous: lacking definite form; shapeless
2. Apogee: the apex or highest point
3. Malleable: capable of being shaped or formed
4. Nebulous: cloudy, misty, or hazy
5. Tenuous: long and thin; slender
6. Pellucid: admitting the passage of light; transparent
7. Immutable: not subject to change
8. Protean: readily taking on various forms or meanings
9. Nadir: The lowest point
10. Zenith: the highest point above the observer’s horizon attained by a celestial body
SAT Vocabulary: Unit Nine-Nature
1. Acclivity: An upward slope
2. Arable: fit for cultivation
3. Arboreal: relating to or resembling a tree
4. Archipelago: a large group of islands
5. Bucolic: characteristic of the countryside, rustic
6. Fallow: plowed but left unseeded during growing seasons
7. Grotto: a small cave or cavern
8. Subterranean: situated or operating beneath the earth
9. Terrestrial: of or relating to the earth
10. Verdant: green with vegetation
SAT Vocabulary: Unit Ten-Seemingly Supernatural
1. Apparition: a ghostly figure
2. Augury: a sign of something coming; an omen
3. Clairvoyant: having the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses
4. Doppelganger: a ghostly double of a living person
5. Ominous: of or being an omen; especially an evil one
6. Portentous: of the nature or constituting a portent; foreboding
7. Presage: an indication or warning of future occurrence
8. Telepathic: communication through means other than the senses
9. Uncanny: peculiarly unsettling