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SAT Most Important Word List 

500 Words 

GROUPING/SYNONYM
WORD DEFINITION
S

Lessen, minimize (the storm had abated) size, amount,

1 abate
(Nothing abated his crusading zeal) location

deviation, not normal (This somewhat

aberrant behaviour requires an explanation)
2 aberration politics and tradition
(They explained the outbreak of violence in
the area as an aberration)

Hatred,aversion (My dogs pet aversion is

abhor, visitors particularly males) (The thought of
3 abhorrence(strong marrying him filled her with abhorrence) (I friends and enemies
disliking abhor this type of insulting behaviour)
(People who seek peace abhor violence)

difficult to understand (When my uncle talks

too fast, he can be quite abstruse) (Some
students find argument and
4 abstruse
mathematical equations abstruse) (New language
students often find the most simple theories
abstruse)

Confront (Reporters accosted him on the

street) (He was accosted by three gang
5 Accost (khatab) members on the subway) (He was so famous politics and tradition
that people would accost him on the streets
and ask for an autograph)
 bitter,animosity (My animosity for cliff is so
great that I cannot stand to be around him)
(During the match the animosity between two
Acrimony(violent
6 wrestlers was unpredictable) (Your friends and enemies
hatred)
acrimonious arguments about religion only
severe friendships) (You were saved out of it
and became the object of their acrimony)

7 acumen insightfulness knowledge and skill

8 adamant not yielding politics and tradition

9 adept skillful knowledge and skill

10 adroit skillful knowledge and skill

11 affected haughty pride

12 alacrity eagerness energy

size, amount,
13 allocate assign, portion
location

14 altruistic, altruism generous money

15 amenable yielding give up?

16 amiable friendly friends and enemies

17 amicable friendly friends and enemies

18 antediluvian very old time

19 anthropology study of human beings knowledge and skill

20 antipathy dislike friends and enemies

21 apathetic, apathy lacking interest politics and tradition

argument and
22 apt appropriate, inclined
language

23 arcane mysterious, known only by a few truth

24 ascendancy influence, domination politics and tradition

one who practices self-denial as a spiritual

25 ascetic, asceticism politics and tradition
discipline

26 aspire strive for give up?

27 assail belittle praise and criticism

28 assiduous diligent give up?

29 assuage relieve, appease give up?

size, amount,
30 atrophy waste away
location

size, amount,
31 attenuate weaken, reduce
location

32 august dignified politics and tradition

33 aura air, feeling emotions

34 auspicious favorable war and peace

autocrat,
35 dictator, dictatorial politics and tradition
autocratic

36 automaton a person who acts like a robot politics and tradition

37 avarice greed money

38 banal common politics and tradition

39 barrage bombardment, torrent war and peace

40 belie give a false impression truth

41 belligerent aggressive, warlike war and peace

42 benevolent generous money

43 bequeath hand down (through a will) money

44 berate scold harshly praise and criticism

 supported by two opposing groups (political
45 bipartisanship politics and tradition
parties)

46 blighted destroyed war and peace

47 bog marsh, swamp science

48 bolster support war and peace

49 bombastic pompous emotions

boorish,
50 crude knowledge and skill
boorishness

51 buoyant cheerful, floating emotions

size, amount,
52 burgeon grow, flourish
location

53 buttress support war and peace

54 byzantine convoluted, complex the senses

cacophonous,
55 discordant sound the senses
cacophony

argument and
56 cajole coax
language

57 callous insensitive emotions

cantankerous(ness
58 irritable emotions
)

59 capricious fickle emotions

60 castigate belittle praise and criticism

61 caustic bitter emotions

62 censorious harshly critical praise and criticism

63 censure scold praise and criticism

64 cerebral intellectual knowledge and skill

65 chagrin mortification pride

66 charlatan swindler truth

67 chastise belittle praise and criticism

68 chide belittle praise and criticism

69 churlish vulgar, boorish knowledge and skill

70 circuitous indirect truth

size, amount,
71 circumscribe restrict
location

72 circumvent escape, avoid war and peace

73 clandestine secretive truth

74 coalesce blend, fuse science

argument and
75 compendious succinct
language

complacency,
76 self-satisfaction, smugness pride
complacent

compliant,
77 yielding give up?
compliance

conciliate,
78 compromising, apologizing pride
conciliatory

argument and
79 concur agree
language

80 conflagration large destructive fire war and peace

81 confluence a place where things merge or flow together science

82 congenial pleasant friends and enemies

83 conscientious careful knowledge and skill

84 consternation dismay praise and criticism

85 contempt(uous) disdainful praise and criticism

86 contemptible despicable praise and criticism

87 contentious belligerent, quarrelsome war and peace

88 convivial sociable, lively emotions

size, amount,
89 copious abundant
location

strengthen or support with additional

90 corroborate law and order
evidence

91 cosmopolitan sophisticated, urbane knowledge and skill

credulity,
92 the trait of trusting others too much knowledge and skill
credulous

93 culpable blameworthy praise and criticism

94 cursory hasty, superficial the senses

95 dauntless courageous give up?

size, amount,
96 dearth scarcity
location

97 debacle failure give up?

98 debilitate(d) weaken(ed) give up?

99 debunk prove wrong give up?

100 decimate destroy war and peace

decorum,
101 order, politeness law and order
decorous

102 deference, respectful submission, yielding give up?

 deferential

103 degradation humiliation pride

104 deleterious harmful war and peace

argument and
105 delineate list, explain
language

106 demonstrative openly emotional emotions

107 demure, demurral overly modest pride

108 demystify make clear and comprehensible truth

109 denigrate belittle praise and criticism

110 depose dethrone, remove from power politics and tradition

111 depravity moral corruption war and peace

112 deprecate disapprove, belittle praise and criticism

depreciation,
113 decrease in value money
depreciatory

114 deride make fun of praise and criticism

115 derivative not original politics and tradition

derogatory,
116 disparaging, belittling praise and criticism
derogate

117 desecration violate the sacredness of politics and tradition

118 despondent sad, depressed emotions

119 despot dictator politics and tradition

120 destitute poor money

121 deterrent hindrance, impediment give up?

size, amount,
122 devoid lacking
location
123 didactic (often excessively) morally instructive knowledge and skill

diffident,
124 shy emotions
diffidence

size, amount,
125 diffuse spread out
location

argument and
126 digress(ion) stray from the subject at hand
language

127 dilatory tending to waste time time

diminutive, size, amount,

128 extremely small
diminution location

129 dire urgent, dreadful war and peace

130 discern, discerning perceive, perceptive knowledge and skill

131 discomfited disappointed, defeated emotions

132 discount (verb) disregard praise and criticism

133 disheartening discouraging give up?

134 disillusionment disenchantment, disappointment emotions

135 disingenuous insincere truth

136 disparage belittle praise and criticism

137 dispassionate unemotional emotions

138 dispel to drive away or disprove give up?

139 disputatious quarrelsome friends and enemies

140 disquiet(ing) (causing) anxiety give up?

141 disseminate scatter widely science

142 distaste dislike, aversion friends and enemies

143 divergent different, conflicting war and peace

144 divisive creating conflict war and peace

145 divulge make known truth

religious, political, or philosophical principles

146 doctrine politics and tradition
or teachings

tending to force one's own opinions on other

147 dogmatic politics and tradition
people

148 dormant inactive energy

149 dupe deceive truth

duplicitous,
150 deliberately deceptive truth
duplicity

151 ebullient enthusiastic energy

152 eclectic from diverse sources politics and tradition

size, amount,
153 efface(ment) erase
location

154 effervesce bubble, fizz science

155 egalitarian belief in equality politics and tradition

156 elated, elation joyful emotions

157 elicit bring about science

argument and
158 elucidate clarify
language

159 elude evade war and peace

160 elusive difficulty to catch or define war and peace

161 embitter(ed) make worse war and peace

argument and
162 embroil(ed) involve in an argument or conflict
language
 empathetic,
163 compassionate friends and enemies
empathy

based on observation and experiment (not argument and

164 empiric(al)
theory) language

size, amount,
165 encompass include, surround
location

size, amount,
166 encroaching intrusive
location

167 encumbrance burden war and peace

168 enigma(tic) mystery, mysterious truth

argument and
169 enumerate list
language

170 ephemeral short-lived time

171 epiphany sudden realization knowledge and skill

epitome, argument and

172 representative example
epitomize language

173 equanimity calmness energy

174 equitable even-handed law and order

argument and
175 equivocal ambiguous
language

176 erudite, erudition scholarly knowledge and skill

177 esoteric understood only by a few knowledge and skill

estrange,
178 alienate, alienation friends and enemies
estrangement

179 eulogy, eulogize praising speech praise and criticism

180 evoke bring about, stir up emotions

181 exacting demanding, severe requirements friends and enemies

size, amount,
182 excavate unearth, dig up
location

argument and
183 exemplar representative example
language

exhibitionist, deliberately behaving a certain way to attract

184 politics and tradition
exhibitionistic attention

argument and
185 exhort encourage
language

186 exorbitant too expensive money

argument and
187 expedient useful
language

a report designed to reveal the truth to the

188 exposé truth
public

189 extol praise praise and criticism

size, amount,
190 extricate disentangle
location

191 facile superficial, effortless give up?

192 faction group within a larger group politics and tradition

193 fallacious deceitful, incorrect truth

194 fallacy false belief truth

195 fanaticism excessive enthusiasm politics and tradition

196 fastidious careful knowledge and skill

argument and
197 fathom (verb) understand
language

198 felicitous well-suited, happy emotions

199 finesse tact, elegant skill knowledge and skill

argument and
200 flagrant evident, obvious
language

201 flippant, flippancy disrespectful pride

argument and
202 florid(ity) flushed, flowery
language

203 flummox confuse knowledge and skill

204 folly foolishness knowledge and skill

205 foolhardy recklessly daring knowledge and skill

206 forlorn sad emotions

207 fortitude courage emotions

208 fortuitous fortunate, lucky war and peace

209 fraudulent deceitful truth

210 frugal(ity) cheap(ness) money

211 furor commotion, anger emotions

212 furtive sneaky truth

213 futile, futility hopeless give up?

214 gait manner of walking the senses

215 gallant(ry) courageous give up?

size, amount,
216 gargantuan gigantic
location

217 garish tastelessly showy the senses

218 genial friendly friends and enemies

size, amount,
219 germinate (cause to) grow
location
220 glutton(ous) someone who eats and drinks too much the senses

221 grandiose pompous, pretentious knowledge and skill

222 hackneyed common politics and tradition

size, amount,
223 hamper (verb) hinder, restrict
location

224 hardy robust, sturdy energy

225 hasten speed up the progress of time

226 heresy, heretic belief contrary to the established opinion politics and tradition

227 histrionic excessively dramatic or emotional emotions

228 hubris arrogance pride

idiosyncracy,
229 unique personal trait, quirky politics and tradition
idiosyncratic

230 idyllic simply tranquil emotions

ignominy,
231 dishonor, humiliation pride
ignominious

232 illicit illegal law and order

233 impasse obstacle give up?

234 imperious arrogant pride

235 impetuous rash, passionate emotions

impudence,
236 disrespectful, insolent pride
impudent

237 inane senseless, stupid knowledge and skill

incongruity, argument and

238 inappropriateness, discrepancy
incongruous language

239 incredulous, skeptical truth

 incredulity

240 incriminate accuse someone of a crime law and order

size, amount,
241 incubate develop, grow
location

242 indeterminate left doubtful, inconclusive truth

243 indict(ment) formally accuse of a crime law and order

244 indigenous native to a region science

245 indignant angered (by injustice) law and order

size, amount,
246 indiscriminate unselective, random
location

247 indolent lazy energy

248 indomitable too strong to be defeated give up?

249 induce cause science

250 indulgent lenient law and order

argument and
251 ineffable impossible to express in words
language

252 ineptitude incompetence knowledge and skill

253 inert, inertia not moving or active science

254 ingenuous unsophisticated and trusting, naïve knowledge and skill

255 inherent intrinsic, natural science

size, amount,
256 inhibit(ing) restrain(ing)
location

size, amount,
257 innate intrinsic, natural
location

258 innocuous harmless size, amount,

 location

argument and
259 innuendo implicit suggestion
language

260 inscrutable mysterious truth

261 insipid dull, boring energy

262 insolence, insolent disrespectful pride

263 instigate provoke, start energy

size, amount,
264 insular(ity) related to or similar to an island
location

265 intrepid courageous give up?

size, amount,
266 inundate flood
location

267 invoke call forth, appeal to energy

268 irate angry emotions

incongruity between what is expected and

269 irony, ironic truth
what actually results

irreverent,
270 disrespectful pride
irreverence

271 jaded tired, bored emotions

272 jocular cheerful emotions

273 jovial cheerful emotions

274 judicious fair law and order

275 lackadaisical lacking energy, lethargic energy

argument and
276 laconic concise
language
277 laggard lazy person energy

278 languid inactive, dreamy energy

size, amount,
279 latent, latency the state of being not yet evident or active
location

280 laud, laudatory praise praise and criticism

281 listless languid, sluggish energy

282 lithe graceful, supple knowledge and skill

argument and
283 lucid clear, easily understood
language

284 lucrative profitable money

285 lull short period of calm energy

286 lurid sensational, shocking the senses

287 luxuriant lush, elaborate money

magnanimity,
288 generosity, generous money
magnanimous

289 malleable capable of being shaped, pliable the senses

290 marred scarred war and peace

291 maudlin overly sentimental emotions

292 melancholy bleak emotions

293 mercenary motivated by money money

294 mercurial fickle emotions

295 miserly cheap, stingy money

size, amount,
296 mitigate, mitigator moderate, alleviate
location

297 modicum small amount size, amount,

 location

298 morose depressed emotions

size, amount,
299 motley diverse, heterogeneous
location

300 multifarious many types science

argument and
301 nebulous vague
language

302 nefarious evil war and peace

303 neophyte beginner knowledge and skill

notoriety,
304 infamous, ill fame pride
notorious

305 noxious poisonous praise and criticism

argument and
306 nuance subtle difference
language

307 obdurate stubborn pride

obstinate
308 stubborn(ness) pride
(obstinacy)

309 officious meddlesome, interfering friends and enemies

310 onerous difficult, trying give up?

opportunist, a person who takes advantage of

311 pride
opportunistic opportunities, often unethically

312 oracle prophet time

313 orthodox conservative, traditional politics and tradition

314 ostensible apparent, seeming truth

315 oversight mistake knowledge and skill

316 pacifist one who completely opposes violence politics and tradition

317 pacify soothe, calm energy

318 painstaking careful knowledge and skill

319 palliate, palliative relieve pain without curing war and peace

argument and
320 paradigm clear example
language

size, amount,
321 parch make dry
location

322 parody intentional mockery friends and enemies

323 partisan someone with biased beliefs politics and tradition

financially support, be condescending

324 patronize money
towards

size, amount,
325 paucity scarcity
location

pedant, pedantic, a person who makes a great show of his

326 knowledge and skill
pedantry knowledge

327 peevish unpleasant emotions

328 penchant preference emotions

329 penurious cheap, stingy money

330 peremptory bossy, decisive pride

331 perfunctory done routinely with little interest or care emotions

size, amount,
332 peripheral outermost, secondary
location

333 perquisite additional payment, bonus money

334 petulant irritable emotions

 philanthropist,
335 someone who supports charity money
philanthropic

336 piety, pious religious devotion politics and tradition

337 placate calm someone down energy

338 placid calm energy

malleability, the ability to be shaped or size, amount,

339 plasticity
molded location

plausible,
340 likely true truth
plausibility

size, amount,
341 plethora, plethoric surplus
location

size, amount,
342 pliable, pliant easily shaped or influenced
location

343 polemical controversial politics and tradition

argument and
344 prattle babble
language

345 precarious dangerous, unstable war and peace

346 precipitate outcome science

size, amount,
347 preclude prevent
location

early development in maturity and

348 precocious knowledge and skill
intelligence

349 presumptuous too bold, arrogant pride

350 pretext misleading claim or appearance truth

351 prevaricator liar truth

352 procure get or provide money

 size, amount,
353 prodigious huge
location

profound,
354 intense, significant emotions
profundity

size, amount,
355 profuse, profusion plentiful
location

prohibitive, size, amount,

356 restrictive
prohibition location

proliferate, size, amount,

357 grow, increase
proliferation location

size, amount,
358 prolific fertile, fruitful
location

argument and
359 pronouncement formal declaration
language

360 propensity inclination, tendency emotions

argument and
361 proponent supporter
language

argument and
362 prosaic lacking imagination, dull
language

363 prospective likely or expected to become time

364 provident prudent, frugal money

365 provincial narrow-minded, unsophisticated knowledge and skill

366 punctilious meticulous, attentive to detail knowledge and skill

367 pundit a knowledgeable commentator knowledge and skill

size, amount,
368 quell suppress, quench
location

369 quixotic foolish knowledge and skill

 size, amount,
370 rampant unrestrained, growing
location

371 ramshackle poorly constructed the senses

372 rancor(ous) bitter resentment friends and enemies

373 rapport relationship friends and enemies

374 ratify approve, confirm law and order

375 raucous harsh, rowdy energy

size, amount,
376 ravenous insatiable, having a huge appetite
location

377 raze destroy, demolish war and peace

size, amount,
378 reap harvest, gather
location

argument and
379 rebuttal defense, counterargument
language

380 recalcitrant stubborn pride

argument and
381 recant reject
language

size, amount,
382 recessive tending to go backward
location

383 recluse, reclusive hermit friends and enemies

384 rectify, rectitude put right, correct truth

385 redolent reminiscent, having smell the senses

386 refutation, refute arguing that a claim is false truth

387 regressive tending to return or revert time

size, amount,
388 relegate demote
location
 size, amount,
389 relinquish give back
location

390 renounce reject politics and tradition

size, amount,
391 repertory collection
location

392 reprehensible blameworthy praise and criticism

393 reprimand belittle praise and criticism

394 reproach scold praise and criticism

argument and
395 repudiate reject
language

396 repugnant offensive, disgusting emotions

argument and
397 rescind annull, retract
language

398 reticent, reticence emotionally reserved emotions

399 reverent respectful, pious politics and tradition

rhetoric(al), (related to) elegant speech/writing, elegant argument and

400
rhetorician speaker/writer language

401 rouse, rousing provoke, excite energy

402 sage wise knowledge and skill

403 sanctimonious pretending to be religious, hypocritical truth

404 sanction (verb) formally approve law and order

405 sanctity holiness politics and tradition

406 sanguine cheerfully confident, optimistic emotions

size, amount,
407 satiate satisfy fully
location
 satire, satirical,
408 sarcastic imitation friends and enemies
satirize

size, amount,
409 saturate flood, soak
location

size, amount,
410 scanty barely sufficient
location

411 scathing harshly critical praise and criticism

412 scintillating lively, effervescent energy

size, amount,
413 scope opportunity, range
location

414 scrupulous very careful and precise knowledge and skill

argument and
415 scrutinize, scrutiny examine carefully
language

416 self-righteous smug, holier-than-thou pride

417 self-serving selfish pride

418 serendipity luck war and peace

419 servile submissive, subservient give up?

420 shrewd astute, smart knowledge and skill

421 shroud hide, obscure the senses

argument and
422 simile comparison
language

423 slight (verb) insult, snub praise and criticism

424 slipshod careless, sloppy knowledge and skill

425 solace comfort, consolation emotions

426 solicitous(ness) expressing care or concern, often too much friends and enemies
427 somber bleak emotions

428 sophistry deceptive reasoning truth

429 spartan simple, self-disciplined war and peace

430 sporadic occurring at irregular intervals time

431 spurious false, inauthentic truth

432 spurn reject with contempt praise and criticism

433 squander waste money

stagnant,
434 not moving energy
stagnation

435 stark(ness) harsh, plain the senses

436 static (adjective) not moving energy

437 staunch strong and loyal politics and tradition

438 steadfast not yielding give up?

439 stock (adjective) standard, hackneyed politics and tradition

440 strident loud and harsh politics and tradition

stupefy,
441 bewilder knowledge and skill
stupefaction

442 subservient yielding give up?

443 substantiate confirm, establish as genuine truth

one who intends to overthrow the

444 subversive politics and tradition
government

445 succulent delicious the senses

446 supercilious arrogant pride

size, amount,
447 superfluous more than necessary
location
448 supplant to take the place of politics and tradition

size, amount,
449 surfeit surplus
location

450 susceptible easily influenced or affected knowledge and skill

451 sycophant suck up, flatterer politics and tradition

argument and
452 tangential digressive, irrelevant
language

size, amount,
453 teem, teeming abundant
location

454 temperamental moody emotions

455 temporize delay, evade time

456 tenacious, tenacity stubborn, determined give up?

457 tenuous insignificant, flimsy give up?

458 tirade critical speech praise and criticism

459 toady suck-up politics and tradition

460 torpor drowsiness, apathy energy

461 totalitarian undemocratic, rigid political control politics and tradition

462 tout praise praise and criticism

463 tractable easily managed or controlled knowledge and skill

464 transient lasting for only a short time time

argument and
465 treatise extensive written argument about some topic
language

466 trepidation apprehension emotions

467 tribulation suffering give up?

468 trifling frivolous, unimportant size, amount,

 location

469 trite common politics and tradition

truculent,
470 aggressive, bad-tempered emotions
truculence

size, amount,
471 ubiquitous ever-present, pervasive
location

472 unabashed not embarrassed pride

473 uncanny extraordinary, weird knowledge and skill

474 uncouth crude knowledge and skill

475 unfathomable incomprehensible, unbelievable knowledge and skill

476 ungainly clumsy knowledge and skill

477 unruly boisterous, unrestrained energy

478 unwitting unintentional friends and enemies

479 urbane elegant, sophisticated knowledge and skill

480 usurp seize power without authority politics and tradition

size, amount,
481 vacuous, vacuity empty
location

482 vanquish conquer, defeat war and peace

483 vapid dull, uninteresting energy

484 venal(ity) willing to accept bribes money

485 venerable commanding respect because of age, dignity knowledge and skill

argument and
486 verbose wordy, long-winded
language

felt indirectly by imagining someone else's

487 vicarious emotions
experiences
488 vigilant watchful, alert war and peace

vindicate,
489 clear of blame or suspicion law and order
vindication

490 vindictive seeking revenge war and peace

491 virtuoso, virtuosity one with exceptional musical skill knowledge and skill

492 virulent poisonous war and peace

size, amount,
493 viscous thick, sticky
location

494 vocation career money

495 vying striving give up?

size, amount,
496 waning lessening
location

497 wayward selfish, stubborn pride

498 wrath anger emotions

499 wry clever or grim sense of humor knowledge and skill

500 zealot fanatic politics and tradition