SAT Most Important Word List 500

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N	WORD	DEFINITION	GROUPING
1	abate	lessen	size, amount, location
2	aberration	deviation, not normal	politics and tradition
3	abhor, abhorrence	hatred	friends and enemies
4	abstruse	difficult to understand	argument and language
5	accost	confront	politics and tradition
6	acrimony	bitter animosity	friends and enemies
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
13	allocate	assign, portion	size, amount, 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
22	apt	appropriate, inclined	argument and language
23	arcane	mysterious, known only by a few	truth
24	ascendancy	influence, domination	politics and tradition
25	ascetic, asceticism	one who practices self-denial as a spiritual discipline	politics and tradition
26	aspire	strive for	give up?
27	assail	belittle	praise and criticism
28	assiduous	diligent	give up?
29	assuage	relieve, appease	give up?
30	atrophy	waste away	size, amount, location
31	attenuate	weaken, reduce	size, amount, location
32	august	dignified	politics and tradition
33	aura	air, feeling	emotions
34	auspicious	favorable	war and peace
35	autocrat, autocratic	dictator, dictatorial	politics and tradition
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
45	bipartisanship	supported by two opposing groups (political parties)	politics and tradition
46	blighted	destroyed	war and peace
47	bog	marsh, swamp	science
48	bolster	support	war and peace
49	bombastic	pompous	emotions
50	boorish, boorishness	crude	knowledge and skill
51	buoyant	cheerful, floating	emotions
52	burgeon	grow, flourish	size, amount, location
53	buttress	support	war and peace
54	byzantine	convoluted, complex	the senses
55	cacophonous, cacophony	discordant sound	the senses
56	cajole	coax	argument and language
57	callous	insensitive	emotions
58	cantankerous(ness)	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
71	circumscribe	restrict	size, amount, location
72	circumvent	escape, avoid	war and peace
73	clandestine	secretive	truth
74	coalesce	blend, fuse	science
75	compendious	succinct	argument and language
76	complacency, complacent	self-satisfaction, smugness	pride
77	compliant, compliance	yielding	give up?
78	conciliate, conciliatory	compromising, apologizing	pride
79	concur	agree	argument and 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
89	copious	abundant	size, amount, location
90	corroborate	strengthen or support with additional evidence	law and order
91	cosmopolitan	sophisticated, urbane	knowledge and skill
92	credulity, credulous	the trait of trusting others too much	knowledge and skill
93	culpable	blameworthy	praise and criticism
94	cursory	hasty, superficial	the senses
95	dauntless	courageous	give up?
96	dearth	scarcity	size, amount, 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
101	decorum, decorous	order, politeness	law and order
102	deference, deferential	respectful submission, yielding	give up?
103	degradation	humiliation	pride
104	deleterious	harmful	war and peace
105	delineate	list, explain	argument and 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
113	depreciation, depreciatory	decrease in value	money
114	deride	make fun of	praise and criticism
115	derivative	not original	politics and tradition
116	derogatory, derogate	disparaging, belittling	praise and criticism
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?
122	devoid	lacking	size, amount, location
123	didactic	(often excessively) morally instructive	knowledge and skill
124	diffident, diffidence	shy	emotions
125	diffuse	spread out	size, amount, location
126	digress(ion)	stray from the subject at hand	argument and language
127	dilatory	tending to waste time	time
128	diminutive, diminution	extremely small	size, amount, 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
146	doctrine	religious, political, or philosophical principles or teachings	politics and tradition
147	dogmatic	tending to force one's own opinions on other people	politics and tradition
148	dormant	inactive	energy
149	dupe	deceive	truth
150	duplicitous, duplicity	deliberately deceptive	truth
151	ebullient	enthusiastic	energy
152	eclectic	from diverse sources	politics and tradition
153	efface(ment)	erase	size, amount, location
154	effervesce	bubble, fizz	science
155	egalitarian	belief in equality	politics and tradition
156	elated, elation	joyful	emotions
157	elicit	bring about	science
158	elucidate	clarify	argument and 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
162	embroil(ed)	involve in an argument or conflict	argument and language
163	empathetic, empathy	compassionate	friends and enemies
164	empiric(al)	based on observation and experiment (not theory)	argument and language
165	encompass	include, surround	size, amount, location
166	encroaching	intrusive	size, amount, location
167	encumbrance	burden	war and peace
168	enigma(tic)	mystery, mysterious	truth
169	enumerate	list	argument and language
170	ephemeral	short-lived	time
171	epiphany	sudden realization	knowledge and skill
172	epitome, epitomize	representative example	argument and language
173	equanimity	calmness	energy
174	equitable	even-handed	law and order
175	equivocal	ambiguous	argument and language
176	erudite, erudition	scholarly	knowledge and skill
177	esoteric	understood only by a few	knowledge and skill
178	estrange, estrangement	alienate, alienation	friends and enemies
179	eulogy, eulogize	praising speech	praise and criticism
180	evoke	bring about, stir up	emotions
181	exacting	demanding, severe requirements	friends and enemies
182	excavate	unearth, dig up	size, amount, location
183	exemplar	representative example	argument and language
184	exhibitionist, exhibitionistic	deliberately behaving a certain way to attract attention	politics and tradition
185	exhort	encourage	argument and language
186	exorbitant	too expensive	money
187	expedient	useful	argument and language
188	exposé	a report designed to reveal the truth to the public	truth
189	extol	praise	praise and criticism
190	extricate	disentangle	size, amount, 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
197	fathom (verb)	understand	argument and language
198	felicitous	well-suited, happy	emotions
199	finesse	tact, elegant skill	knowledge and skill
200	flagrant	evident, obvious	argument and language
201	flippant, flippancy	disrespectful	pride
202	florid(ity)	flushed, flowery	argument and 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?
216	gargantuan	gigantic	size, amount, location
217	garish	tastelessly showy	the senses
218	genial	friendly	friends and enemies
219	germinate	(cause to) grow	size, amount, 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
223	hamper (verb)	hinder, restrict	size, amount, 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
229	idiosyncracy, idiosyncratic	unique personal trait, quirky	politics and tradition
230	idyllic	simply tranquil	emotions
231	ignominy, ignominious	dishonor, humiliation	pride
232	illicit	illegal	law and order
233	impasse	obstacle	give up?
234	imperious	arrogant	pride
235	impetuous	rash, passionate	emotions
236	impudence, impudent	disrespectful, insolent	pride
237	inane	senseless, stupid	knowledge and skill
238	incongruity, incongruous	inappropriateness, discrepancy	argument and language
239	incredulous, incredulity	skeptical	truth
240	incriminate	accuse someone of a crime	law and order
241	incubate	develop, grow	size, amount, 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
246	indiscriminate	unselective, random	size, amount, location
247	indolent	lazy	energy
248	indomitable	too strong to be defeated	give up?
249	induce	cause	science
250	indulgent	lenient	law and order
251	ineffable	impossible to express in words	argument and 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
256	inhibit(ing)	restrain(ing)	size, amount, location
257	innate	intrinsic, natural	size, amount, location
258	innocuous	harmless	size, amount, location
259	innuendo	implicit suggestion	argument and language
260	inscrutable	mysterious	truth
261	insipid	dull, boring	energy
262	insolence, insolent	disrespectful	pride
263	instigate	provoke, start	energy
264	insular(ity)	related to or similar to an island	size, amount, location
265	intrepid	courageous	give up?
266	inundate	flood	size, amount, location
267	invoke	call forth, appeal to	energy
268	irate	angry	emotions
269	irony, ironic	incongruity between what is expected and what actually results	truth
270	irreverent, irreverence	disrespectful	pride
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
276	laconic	concise	argument and language
277	laggard	lazy person	energy
278	languid	inactive, dreamy	energy
279	latent, latency	the state of being not yet evident or active	size, amount, location
280	laud, laudatory	praise	praise and criticism
281	listless	languid, sluggish	energy
282	lithe	graceful, supple	knowledge and skill
283	lucid	clear, easily understood	argument and language
284	lucrative	profitable	money
285	lull	short period of calm	energy
286	lurid	sensational, shocking	the senses
287	luxuriant	lush, elaborate	money
288	magnanimity, magnanimous	generosity, generous	money
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
296	mitigate, mitigator	moderate, alleviate	size, amount, location
297	modicum	small amount	size, amount, location
298	morose	depressed	emotions
299	motley	diverse, heterogeneous	size, amount, location
300	multifarious	many types	science
301	nebulous	vague	argument and language
302	nefarious	evil	war and peace
303	neophyte	beginner	knowledge and skill
304	notoriety, notorious	infamous, ill fame	pride
305	noxious	poisonous	praise and criticism
306	nuance	subtle difference	argument and language
307	obdurate	stubborn	pride
308	obstinate (obstinacy)	stubborn(ness)	pride
309	officious	meddlesome, interfering	friends and enemies
310	onerous	difficult, trying	give up?
311	opportunist, opportunistic	a person who takes advantage of opportunities, often unethically	pride
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
320	paradigm	clear example	argument and language
321	parch	make dry	size, amount, location
322	parody	intentional mockery	friends and enemies
323	partisan	someone with biased beliefs	politics and tradition
324	patronize	financially support, be condescending towards	money
325	paucity	scarcity	size, amount, location
326	pedant, pedantic, pedantry	a person who makes a great show of his knowledge	knowledge and skill
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
332	peripheral	outermost, secondary	size, amount, location
333	perquisite	additional payment, bonus	money
334	petulant	irritable	emotions
335	philanthropist, philanthropic	someone who supports charity	money
336	piety, pious	religious devotion	politics and tradition
337	placate	calm someone down	energy
338	placid	calm	energy
339	plasticity	malleability, the ability to be shaped or molded	size, amount, location
340	plausible, plausibility	likely true	truth
341	plethora, plethoric	surplus	size, amount, location
342	pliable, pliant	easily shaped or influenced	size, amount, location
343	polemical	controversial	politics and tradition
344	prattle	babble	argument and language
345	precarious	dangerous, unstable	war and peace
346	precipitate	outcome	science
347	preclude	prevent	size, amount, location
348	precocious	early development in maturity and intelligence	knowledge and skill
349	presumptuous	too bold, arrogant	pride
350	pretext	misleading claim or appearance	truth
351	prevaricator	liar	truth
352	procure	get or provide	money
353	prodigious	huge	size, amount, location
354	profound, profundity	intense, significant	emotions
355	profuse, profusion	plentiful	size, amount, location
356	prohibitive, prohibition	restrictive	size, amount, location
357	proliferate, proliferation	grow, increase	size, amount, location
358	prolific	fertile, fruitful	size, amount, location
359	pronouncement	formal declaration	argument and language
360	propensity	inclination, tendency	emotions
361	proponent	supporter	argument and language
362	prosaic	lacking imagination, dull	argument and 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
368	quell	suppress, quench	size, amount, location
369	quixotic	foolish	knowledge and skill
370	rampant	unrestrained, growing	size, amount, 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
376	ravenous	insatiable, having a huge appetite	size, amount, location
377	raze	destroy, demolish	war and peace
378	reap	harvest, gather	size, amount, location
379	rebuttal	defense, counterargument	argument and language
380	recalcitrant	stubborn	pride
381	recant	reject	argument and language
382	recessive	tending to go backward	size, amount, 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
388	relegate	demote	size, amount, location
389	relinquish	give back	size, amount, location
390	renounce	reject	politics and tradition
391	repertory	collection	size, amount, location
392	reprehensible	blameworthy	praise and criticism
393	reprimand	belittle	praise and criticism
394	reproach	scold	praise and criticism
395	repudiate	reject	argument and language
396	repugnant	offensive, disgusting	emotions
397	rescind	annull, retract	argument and language
398	reticent, reticence	emotionally reserved	emotions
399	reverent	respectful, pious	politics and tradition
400	rhetoric(al), rhetorician	(related to) elegant speech/writing, elegant speaker/writer	argument and 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
407	satiate	satisfy fully	size, amount, location
408	satire, satirical, satirize	sarcastic imitation	friends and enemies
409	saturate	flood, soak	size, amount, location
410	scanty	barely sufficient	size, amount, location
411	scathing	harshly critical	praise and criticism
412	scintillating	lively, effervescent	energy
413	scope	opportunity, range	size, amount, location
414	scrupulous	very careful and precise	knowledge and skill
415	scrutinize, scrutiny	examine carefully	argument and 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
422	simile	comparison	argument and 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
434	stagnant, stagnation	not moving	energy
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
441	stupefy, stupefaction	bewilder	knowledge and skill
442	subservient	yielding	give up?
443	substantiate	confirm, establish as genuine	truth
444	subversive	one who intends to overthrow the government	politics and tradition
445	succulent	delicious	the senses
446	supercilious	arrogant	pride
447	superfluous	more than necessary	size, amount, location
448	supplant	to take the place of	politics and tradition
449	surfeit	surplus	size, amount, location
450	susceptible	easily influenced or affected	knowledge and skill
451	sycophant	suck up, flatterer	politics and tradition
452	tangential	digressive, irrelevant	argument and language
453	teem, teeming	abundant	size, amount, 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
465	treatise	extensive written argument about some topic	argument and language
466	trepidation	apprehension	emotions
467	tribulation	suffering	give up?
468	trifling	frivolous, unimportant	size, amount, location
469	trite	common	politics and tradition
470	truculent, truculence	aggressive, bad-tempered	emotions
471	ubiquitous	ever-present, pervasive	size, amount, 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
481	vacuous, vacuity	empty	size, amount, 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
486	verbose	wordy, long-winded	argument and language
487	vicarious	felt indirectly by imagining someone else's experiences	emotions
488	vigilant	watchful, alert	war and peace
489	vindicate, vindication	clear of blame or suspicion	law and order
490	vindictive	seeking revenge	war and peace
491	virtuoso, virtuosity	one with exceptional musical skill	knowledge and skill
492	virulent	poisonous	war and peace
493	viscous	thick, sticky	size, amount, location
494	vocation	career	money
495	vying	striving	give up?
496	waning	lessening	size, amount, 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

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