College Board Top100Common SAT Vocabulary Words
1. Abbreviate Shorten,abridge
2. Abstinence act of refraing from
3. Adulation high praise
4. adversity misfortune
5. aesthetic pertaining to beauty
6. amicable agreeable
7. anachronistic out-of-date
8. anecdote short account of event
9. anonymous nameless
11. antagonist opponent
12. arid extremely dry
13. assiduous hard-working
14. asylum sanctuary
15. benevolent friendly, helpful
16. camaraderie trust among friends
17. censure to criticize harshly
18. circuitous indirect, roundabout
19. clairvoyant able to see the future
20. collaborate to work together
21. compassion sympathy, mercy
22. compromise to settle differences
23. condescending patronizing
24. conditional provisional, contingent
25. conformist follower of customs
26. congregation crowd of people
27. convergence joining of parts
28. deleterious harmful
29. demagogue rabble-rousing leader
30. digression straying from main point
31. diligent hard-working
32. discredit dishonor, disgrace
33. disdain to regard with scorn
34. divergent variant, moving apart
35. empathy sharing of feelings
36. emulate follow an example
37. enervating tiring, weakening
38. enhance improve, augment
39. ephemeral momentary, fleeting
40. evanescent short-lived, as an image
41. exasperation irritation, frustration
42. exemplary outstanding
43. extenuating guilt diminishing
44. florid flushed, ornate
45. fortuitous lucky
46. frugal thrifty
47. hackneyed overused, cliched
48. haughty arrogant, condescending
49. hedonist pleasure seeker
50. hypothesis theory requiring proof
51. impetuous rash, impulsive
52. impute to attribute to someone
53. incompatible unable to work together
54. inconsequential trivial
55. inevitable unavoidable, certain
56. integrity honesty, decency
57. intrepid fearless, adventurous
58. intuitive instinctive, untaught
59. jubilation joy, exultation
60. lobbyist persuader of legislators
61. longevity long life
62. mundane ordinary, common
63. nonchalant calm, casual
64. novice beginner
65. opulent wealthy
66. orator speaker
67. ostentatious displaying wealth
68. parched dried up
69. perfidious disloyal
70. precocious talented beyond one's age
71. pretentious pompous, self-important
72. procrastinate to delay unnecessarily
73. prosaic run-of-the-mill
74. prosperity wealth, success
75. provocative inflammatory
76. prudent wise, careful, cautious
77. querulous irritable
78. rancorous hateful
79. reclusive withdrawn, hermit-like
80. reconciliation agreement after a quarrel
81. renovation state of being renewed
82. resilient quick to recover
83. restrained controlled, restricted
84. reverence profound respect
85. sagacity wisdom
86. scrutinize to observe carefully
87. spontaneity impulsive action
88. spurious phony, false
89. submissive meek
90. substantiate to verify, confirm
91. subtle elusive, sly, ambiguous
92. superficial lacking in depth
93. superfluous more than enough
94. suppress to end an activity
95. surreptitious
secret, stealthy
96. tactful diplomatic, polite
97. tenacious persistent, resolute
98. transient temporary, fleeting
99. venerable respectable due to age
100. vindicate to clear from blame
101. wary watchful, alert |