SAT Words 1

BEGINNING WORDS

abandon
abase
abash
abate
abet
abhorred
abject
ablution
abortive
abridge
absolve
abstain
abundance
academe
accolade
accost
accretion
accrue
acme
acquaintance
acrid
actuary
adage
adept
adequate
adherent
adversity
advertise
advisable
affable
agenda
aggravate
akimbo
aloof
amateur
amerce
annoyance
apathy
aperture
apparatus
appease
approximately
arable
arras
arthritis
artifice
ascertain
atrophy
attendance
aviary
avouch
avow
baleful
banal
bane
barren
belated
belittle
beret
bilk
bliss
bosky
bouquet
breadth
brevity
broach
bungle
bureau
cafeteria
callow
candid
carnage
carouse
carriage
category
cavalier
cavalry
celerity
cemetery
chagrin
chancellor
chary
chronic
clamor
clemency
climactic
cologne
commandant
commemorate
comparative
competent
complacency
conceivable
condign
confluence
conjugal
conscience
consequence
consign
consistent
construe
continually
continuous
contrite
convenience
conversant
convoke
copious
corduroy
coterie
countenance
courtesies
credulous
cresset
crochet
cryptic
crystallized
cuspate
dearth
definitely
delinquent
delusion
deodorize
deracinate
desecrate
desist
desperate
diatribe
diffidence
discontent
discursive
dispensable
dissipate
divagate
divination
dolt
dotard
duplicity
edify
efface
elicited
eliminate
elucidate
empathize
emulate
enervate
engender
enmesh
ennui
enthrall
entrench
epicure
epithet
espouse
ethereal
eulogy
examine
exigent
existence
exonerate
exorbitant
expedite
extol
extradite
extricate
fallible
fallow
fascinate
fathom
fatigue
feckless
fecund
felicity
fetid
fetter
feudal
fickle
finesse
finicky
flippant
florid
flourish
flout
foible
forcibly
forswear
fragrance
frolicking
fulsome
fume
furl
furtive
gambol
garble
garish
garner
giddy
goad
grandeur
grievance
grievous
grisly
grovel
haggle
hamper
harassment
haughty
hindrance
humorous
hygiene
hyperbole
hypocrisy
hypothesize
icicle
illuminate
impromptu
improvident
inaudible
incidental
incisive
indelible
indictment
ingenious
ingenuous
inimical
innocence
insolvent
insurance
integrity
intimate
intimidate
intrinsic
inveigh
isthmus
jettison
jollity
joule
juncture
juxtapose
kinetic
knave
kudos
laboratory
laconic
lacquer
languish
lethargy
lieutenancy
likelihood
livelihood
loveliness
lucre
mackerel
marionette
marred
maudlin
meander
mediate
mediocre
meditate
melancholy
melange
meticulous
millennium
minimum
mistral
morale
mortgage
myriad
negligence
neologism
noisome
nonchalantly
noticeable
notoriety
obedience
obviate
odious
officious
opaque
opportune
ordinance
ordnance
palpable
paltry
panicky
parachutist
paragon
parallax
parlance
parochial
parsimony
partisan
paucity
peaceable
pedantic
peevish
perceive
perception
peremptory
perfidy
perjury
permanence
persuasion
philistine
picnicker
platitude
precursor
proclivity
prolific
prominence
promptness
pronounce
pugilism
reactionary
recommend
recompense
reconciliation
redundant
refractory
refurbish
relevance
relieve
remedial
remuneration
repetition
reprobate
repudiate
resilience
resplendent
restaurant
reverent
rhubarb
rhythm
ribald
ridiculous
rudiment
ruffian
ruminate
salience
savant
separately
sequester
shellacker
siege
significance
slalom
sophomore
soporific
specimen
spurious
squalor
stratagem
strenuous
strife
stultifying
subaqueous
subterfuge
successful
sullen
suppress
surmise
suspense
sympathy
taper
tautology
tawdry
technical
temerity
tenement
tenuous
tetanus
thieves
tirade
torpid
torpor
tournament
truant
turgid
turpitude
twelfth
unbraid
undulate
unfathomable
upshot
urbane
utility
vacillate
vacuum
variance
vehement
verdant
vermiculate
versatile
vicinity
vigilance
vigor
vilify
virulent
vivid
voluble
wield
wistful
witty
wretched
yacht
yore
yowl
zealot
zenith
zucchini

INTERMEDIATE WORDS

abdicate
aberration
abominate
abscond
acerbic
acquiesce
acrimony
acumen
adamant
adjacent
admonish
adulation
adulterate
advantageously
adversarial
aerodynamic
aesthetic
affinity
aggregate
aggressive
aggrieved
agrarian
alchemy
aleatory
algesia
altruistic
ambivalence
amethyst
amorphous
annihilate
anserine
antipathy
approbatory
aquiline
arriviste
arrogance
arrogant
ascetic
assassination
assuage
audacity
authoritarian
auxiliary
avarice
bandalore
bantam
barbarity
beauteous
befuddle
bemoan
bemused
betwixt
bibelot
bibliopole
blithe
bludgeon
boorish
browbeat
bungalow
bureaucracy
burlesque
buttress
cachinnate
cajolery
carafe
causerie
cavalcade
censorious
chamois
changeable
charlatan
chasten
chauffeur
cherubic
chimerical
clandestine
cloister
coalesce
commensurate
commiseration
conciliatory
concinnity
concordance
confectioneries
congeries
conscientious
consummation
contemplate
contemptible
convoluted
corpulence
correspondence
courageous
cryptographer
cuboid
dawdle
decorum
delectable
deleterious
deprecating
deprecatory
dilemma
diligent
diminution
disappearance
disappointment
disconsolate
discretionary
disinterment
dispassionate
dissension
dissevered
dubious
ecstasy
ecstatic
effervesce
efficaciously
efficiency
effigy
effrontery
egregious
elegiac
embarrassment
emcee
emphasis
enigmatic
entrepreneur
equilibrium
equivocate
erudition
escapade
esoteric
especially
esurient
euphonic
exceptional
exorcise
expatriate
expunge
expurgate
extemporaneous
extravagance
fastidious
fatuous
feign
financier
fledgling
flexuous
foofaraw
fricassee
fuchsias
gazetteer
gelatinous
guile
hackneyed
hedonism
heiress
hiatus
hibernal
histrionic
iconoclasm
ignoramus
illegitimate
immediately
immutable
impeccable
impecunious
impervious
impetuous
impregnable
inauspicious
inchoate
incipient
incongruity
incongruous
incorrigible
indecorous
inebriation
ineluctably
infinitesimal
inscrutable
intellectual
interference
intractable
inveigle
inveterate
irascible
iridescence
jejune
jeopardy
juvenilia
katabatic
kibitz
kindergarten
kiosk
kitsch
knotty
labyrinth
lamentation
lapideous
larithmics
lassitude
leviathan
lithe
litotes
liturgy
loquacious
loutish
ludicrous
maintenance
maleficent
malevolent
malinger
maneuver
masquerade
massacre
matinee
maxixe
meandrous
mendicant
meringue
milieu
millinery
millionaire
multifarious
nascent
necessary
nefarious
noxious
nubilous
obdurate
obliquity
obloquy
obsequious
obstreperous
occurrence
oersted
opalescence
ophthalmologist
oscillate
ostentatious
ostracize
oxydactyl
pageantry
panegyric
paranoia
parliament
pastiche
peccadillo
pejorative
percipient
permissible
perquisites
perseverance
personnel
physician
picaresque
picayune
pigeon
pluviosity
polyphony
posthumous
precocious
prevalence
primeval
privilege
proboscis
prodigious
prognosticator
pronunciation
prosaic
pugnacity
pulverize
quagga
quagmire
quandary
quaquaversal
querulous
quiescent
rancorous
raucous
recalcitrant
regrettable
repartee
rescind
reticule
retrospection
reverberated
ricochet
righteous
rondeau
saccharine
scaphoid
senescence
skedaddle
solfatara
souvenirs
statistician
subtleties
succored
suckered
suffragette
supercilious
surfeit
surreptitious
surreptitiously
sybarite
sycophant
syllogize
symmetrical
synthetic
syringe
syzygy
tableau
taciturn
tantamount
temperament
toque
transience
treacherous
tympanum
umbrage
variegated
vengeance
vicissitudes
villanelle
vinaigrette
viscid
vitriolic
voluminous
vouchsafe
watteau
writhe
xenophobe
yeoman
yeomanry

ADVANCED WORDS

abecedarian
accipitrine
accommodate
acedia
acicular
aesthete
agglomerate
agnostic
ailurophile
ambulatory
ameliorate
amphibology
amphigouri
anamnesis
anaptyxis
angwantibo
anodyne
antediluvian
aposiopesis
apotheosis
apotheosize
apotropaic
arraignment
asseverate
autochthon
azimuth
baccalaureate
barbiturate
bathysiderodromophobia
behemoth
beleaguer
bissextile
blandishment
blatherskite
boisterous
boustrophedon
braggadocio
brusquely
cacophonous
campanologist
catarrhal
chartreuse
chrestomathy
churlish
circuitous
cirrhosis
clepsydra
coagulate
cochleariform
coelostat
concomitant
conglomerate
connoisseur
contentious
conundrum
ctenoid
cucullate
curmudgeon
daguerreotype
decipher
declivity
decussate
delicatessen
delineate
dentifrice
depreciating
dilapidated
diphtheria
disapprobation
disputatious
dreadnought
eczema
emphysema
evanescent
excelsior
floccinaucinihilipilification
formaldehyde
gneiss
grandiloquence
harangue
hemorrhage
hircine
imperturbable
indefatigable
innuendoes
insouciant
irresistible
kaleidoscope
klipspringer
lachrymose
lagniappe
legerdemain
lepidopterist
macaque
maladroit
malapropism
maxillae
meretricious
microhmmeter
miscellaneous
mischievous
monadnock
moribund
munificent
odyssey
oophagous
oscillatory
otorhinolaryngology
peristalsis
perspicacious
perspicuous
pique
piteous
plagiarize
plaquette
pneumonia
poignant
poliomyelitis
presumptuous
psittacine
puissant
pyrexia
questionnaire
quincunx
quixotic
quokka
ratatouille
reconnaissance
renaissance
reservoir
rheumatism
rhinorrhagia
sacrilegious
sangfroid
schottische
silhouette
simultaneously
solecism
solipsism
solstitial
sorghum
sthene
svelte
synecdoche
terpsichorean
valetudinarian
velleity
vintner

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