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    VOCABULARY LISTS

    300 Most Dicult SAT WordsSeptember 30, 2012 By Helena B.

    Hardest out of the 1000 most common SAT words. Knowing all of these is the safest way to guarantee a good mark in the critical

    reading and writing sections.

    1.

    of the mostcontemptible kind

    2.

    a state or condition markedly dierent from the norm

    3.

    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief

    4.

    the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief

    5.

    revoke formally

    6.

    run away

    7.

    dicult to penetrate

    8.

    yield to another's wish or opinion

    9.

    speak to someone

    abject

    aberration

    abjure

    abnegation

    abrogate

    abscond

    abstruse

    accede

    accost

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    10.

    an increase by natural growth or addition

    11.

    shrewdness shown by keen insight

    12.

    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

    13.

    scold or reprimand; take to task

    14.

    describe roughly or give the main points or summary of

    15.

    in an opposing direction

    16.

    a person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea

    17.

    having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

    18.add details to

    19.

    liveliness and eagerness

    20.

    a name that has been assumed temporarily

    21.

    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow

    accretion

    acumen

    adamant

    admonish

    adumbrate

    adverse

    advocate

    auent

    aggrandize

    alacrity

    alias

    ambivalent

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    22.

    disposed or willing to comply

    23.

    having no denite form or distinct shape

    24.

    chronologically misplaced

    25.

    a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication

    26.

    attach to

    27.

    of or relating to the period before the biblical ood

    28.

    thoroughly clean and free of disease-causing organisms

    29.

    showing little or no emotion or animation

    30.

    exact opposite

    31.

    being of questionable authenticity

    32.

    ocial approval

    33.

    amenable

    amorphous

    anachronistic

    anathema

    annex

    antediluvian

    antiseptic

    apathetic

    antithesis

    apocryphal

    approbation

    arbitrary

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    based on or subject to individual discretion or preference

    34.

    of or relating to or formed by trees

    35.

    requiring secret or mysterious knowledge

    36.

    of an original type after which other things are patterned

    37.

    seize and take control without authority

    38.

    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

    39.

    a disparaging remark

    0.

    marked by care and persistent eort

    1.

    a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

    2.

    something causing misery or death

    3.

    self-consciously timid

    4.

    inuence by slyness

    arboreal

    arcane

    archetypal

    arrogate

    ascetic

    aspersion

    assiduous

    atrophy

    bane

    bashful

    beguile

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    5.

    sorrowful through loss or deprivation

    6.

    attery intended to persuade

    7.

    cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

    8.

    ostentatiously lofty in style

    9.

    inuence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or attering

    50.

    having calluses

    51.

    a false accusation of an oense

    52.

    the quality of aording easy familiarity and sociability

    53.the quality of being honest and straightforward

    54.

    surrender under agreed conditions

    55.

    engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking

    56.

    any of various freshwater sh of the family Cyprinidae

    bereft

    blandishment

    bilk

    bombastic

    cajole

    callous

    calumny

    camaraderie

    candor

    capitulate

    carouse

    carp

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    57.

    meet to select a candidate or promote a policy

    58.

    play boisterously

    59.

    an indirect way of expressing something

    60.

    to draw a geometric gure around another gure

    61.

    surround so as to force to give up

    62.

    utter or proclaim insistently and noisily

    63.

    separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument

    64.

    a person who makes or repairs shoes

    65.

    powerfully persuasive

    66.

    having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization

    67.

    corresponding in size or degree or extent

    68.

    caucus

    cavort

    circumlocution

    circumscribe

    circumvent

    clamor

    cleave

    cobbler

    cogent

    cognizant

    commensurate

    complement

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    something added to embellish or make perfect

    69.

    a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed

    70.

    following or accompanying as a consequence

    71.

    a passage through which water or electric wires can pass

    72.

    a very intense and uncontrolled re

    73.

    the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate

    74.

    form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

    75.

    give over to another for care or safekeeping

    76.

    one of the individual parts making up a composite entity

    77.

    make sense of; assign a meaning to

    78.

    an injury in which the skin is not broken

    79.

    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or oenses

    compunction

    concomitant

    conduit

    conagration

    congruity

    connive

    consign

    constituent

    construe

    contusion

    contrite

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    80.

    showing an inclination to disagree

    81.

    go against, as of rules and laws

    82.

    occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company

    83.

    the property of excessive fatness

    84.

    wish, long, or crave for

    85.

    extreme greed for material wealth

    86.

    an insucient quantity or number

    87.

    a sudden and violent collapse

    88.a wild gathering involving excessive drinking

    89.

    expose while ridiculing

    90.

    no longer in force or use; inactive

    91.

    a leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions

    contentious

    contravene

    convivial

    corpulence

    covet

    cupidity

    dearth

    debacle

    debauch

    debunk

    defunct

    demagogue

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    92.

    charge falsely or with malicious intent

    93.

    a compound obtained from another compound

    94.

    a cruel and oppressive dictator

    95.

    so thin as to transmit light

    96.

    instructive, especially excessively

    97.

    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person

    98.

    discontented as toward authority

    99.

    cause to lose one's composure

    00.

    fundamentally dierent or distinct in quality or kind

    01.

    to cause to separate and go in dierent directions

    02.

    the state of being held in low esteem

    03.

    denigrate

    derivative

    despot

    diaphanous

    didactic

    dirge

    disaected

    discomt

    disparate

    dispel

    disrepute

    divisive

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    dissenting with the majority opinion

    04.

    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

    05.

    showing a brooding ill humor

    06.

    acting in bad faith

    07.

    compulsory force or threat

    08.

    selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas

    09.

    a formal or authoritative proclamation

    10.

    joyously unrestrained

    11.

    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

    12.

    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

    13.

    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response

    14.

    the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property

    dogmatic

    dour

    duplicity

    duress

    eclectic

    edict

    ebullient

    egregious

    elegy

    elicit

    embezzlement

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    15.

    make corrections to

    16.

    a substance with a soothing eect when applied to the skin

    17.

    derived from experiment and observation rather than theory

    18.

    strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

    19.

    weaken mentally or morally

    20.

    grant freedom to, as from slavery or servitude

    21.

    call forth

    22.

    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day

    23.written in the form of letters or correspondence

    24.

    steadiness of mind under stress

    25.

    open to two or more interpretations

    26.

    choose and follow

    emend

    emollient

    empirical

    emulate

    enervate

    enfranchise

    engender

    ephemeral

    epistolary

    equanimity

    equivocal

    espouse

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    27.

    tending to vanish like vapor

    28.

    give expression to

    29.

    make worse

    30.

    spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

    31.

    unequivocally detestable

    32.

    demanding immediate attention

    33.

    appropriate to a purpose

    34.

    make amends for

    35.

    remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

    36.

    not belonging to that in which it is contained

    37.

    praise, glorify, or honor

    38.

    evanescent

    evince

    exacerbate

    exhort

    execrable

    exigent

    expedient

    expiate

    expunge

    extraneous

    extol

    extant

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    still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost

    39.

    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

    0.

    containing or based on incorrect reasoning

    1.

    devoid of intelligence

    2.

    a shackle for the ankles or feet

    3.

    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

    4.

    hinder or prevent, as an eort, plan, or desire

    5.

    good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

    6.

    occurring by happy chance

    7.

    easily irritated or annoyed

    8.

    full of trivial conversation

    9.

    a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess

    expurgate

    fallacious

    fatuous

    fetter

    agrant

    foil

    forbearance

    fortuitous

    fractious

    garrulous

    gourmand

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    50.

    lofty in style

    51.

    unnecessary and unwarranted

    52.

    deserving or inciting pity

    53.

    the dominance or leadership of one social group over others

    54.

    consisting of elements that are not of the same kind

    55.

    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions

    56.

    peculiar to the individual

    57.

    not having enough money to pay for necessities

    58.characterized by undue haste and lack of thought

    59.

    infringe upon

    60.

    attribute or credit to

    61.

    devoid of intelligence

    grandiloquent

    gratuitous

    hapless

    hegemony

    heterogenous

    iconoclast

    idiosyncratic

    impecunious

    impetuous

    impinge

    impute

    inane

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    62.

    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

    63.

    impossible to deny or disprove

    64.

    necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding

    65.

    not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

    66.

    not friendly

    67.

    a judicial remedy to prohibit a party from doing something

    68.

    impregnate with the germ of a disease to render immune

    69.

    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

    70.

    provoke or stir up

    71.

    in opposition to a civil authority or government

    72.

    a person who takes part in a conversation

    73.

    inchoate

    incontrovertible

    incumbent

    inexorable

    inimical

    injunction

    inoculate

    insidious

    instigate

    insurgent

    interlocutor

    intimation

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    a slight suggestion or vague understanding

    74.

    cause to accept or become hardened to

    75.

    abusive language used to express blame or censure

    76.

    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

    77.

    habitual

    78.

    a mental attitude showing lack of due respect

    79.

    the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death

    80.

    brief and to the point

    81.

    liberality in bestowing gifts

    82.

    an illusory feat

    83.

    an advocate of freedom of thought and speech

    84.

    lacking moral discipline

    inure

    invective

    intransigent

    inveterate

    irreverence

    knell

    laconic

    largesse

    legerdemain

    libertarian

    licentious

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    85.

    a central cohesive source of support and stability

    86.

    (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation

    87.

    a powerful circular current of water

    88.

    eusively or insincerely emotional

    89.

    someone who exhibits independence in thought and action

    90.

    eusively or insincerely emotional

    91.

    a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits

    92.

    given to lying

    93.a small or moderate or token amount

    94.

    a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

    95.

    the conventions embodying the fundamental values of a group

    96.

    very generous

    linchpin

    litigant

    maelstrom

    maudlin

    maverick

    mawkish

    maxim

    mendacious

    modicum

    morass

    mores

    municent

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    97.

    having many aspects

    98.

    the lowest point of anything

    99.

    characterized by undue lack of attention or concern

    00.

    any new participant in some activity

    01.

    oensively malodorous

    02.

    injurious to physical or mental health

    03.

    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

    04.

    make obscure or unclear

    05.

    noisily and stubbornly deant

    06.

    intrusive in a meddling or oensive manner

    07.

    not easily borne; wearing

    08.

    multifarious

    nadir

    negligent

    neophyte

    noisome

    noxious

    obdurate

    obfuscate

    obstreperous

    ocious

    onerous

    ostensible

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    appearing as such but not necessarily so

    09.

    the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

    10.

    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

    11.

    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases

    12.

    a standard or typical example

    13.

    a person who is rejected from society or home

    14.

    a fervent and even militant proponent of something

    15.

    an insucient quantity or number

    16.

    expressing disapproval

    17.

    transparently clear; easily understandable

    18.

    a strong liking

    19.

    excessively unwilling to spend

    ostracism

    palliate

    panacea

    paradigm

    pariah

    partisan

    paucity

    pejorative

    pellucid

    penchant

    penurious

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    20.

    characterized by a lightly exuberant quality

    21.

    exceedingly harmful

    22.

    stubbornly unyielding

    23.

    showing little emotion

    24.

    of or relating to charitable giving

    25.

    concise and full of meaning

    26.

    a trite or obvious remark

    27.

    enthusiastic approval

    28.a full supply

    29.

    extreme excess

    30.

    a sign of something about to happen

    31.

    a ruler who is unconstrained by law

    pert

    pernicious

    pertinacious

    phlegmatic

    philanthropic

    pithy

    platitude

    plaudit

    plenitude

    plethora

    portent

    potentate

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    32.

    make impossible, especially beforehand

    33.

    a predisposition in favor of something

    34.

    exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight

    35.

    a foreboding about what is about to happen

    36.

    complete and conrmed integrity

    37.

    a natural inclination

    38.

    unrestrained by convention or morality

    39.

    state or announce

    0.

    command against

    1.

    taking on dierent forms

    2.

    characterized by lust

    3.

    preclude

    predilection

    preponderance

    presage

    probity

    proclivity

    proigate

    promulgate

    proscribe

    protean

    prurient

    puerile

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    displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

    4.

    tough and callous by virtue of experience

    5.

    physical beauty, especially of a woman

    6.

    marked by precise accordance with details

    7.

    attractively old-fashioned

    8.

    not sensible about practical matters

    9.

    state of uncertainty in a choice between unfavorable options

    50.

    stubbornly resistant to authority or control

    51.

    inspiring fear

    52.

    assign to a lower position

    53.

    failing in what duty requires

    54.

    postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal

    pugnacious

    pulchritude

    punctilious

    quaint

    quixotic

    quandary

    recalcitrant

    redoubtable

    relegate

    remiss

    reprieve

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    55.

    a person without moral scruples

    56.

    cancel ocially

    57.

    an authoritative request or demand

    58.

    excessively abundant

    59.

    excessively or hypocritically pious

    60.

    condently optimistic and cheerful

    61.

    expressing oensive reproach

    62.

    an apparatus for visual signaling

    63.good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries

    64.

    the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol

    65.

    full of anxiety and concern

    66.

    the philosophical theory that the self is all that exists

    reprobate

    rescind

    requisition

    rife

    sanctimonious

    sanguine

    scurrilous

    semaphore

    serendipity

    sobriety

    solicitous

    solipsism

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    67.

    plausible but false

    68.

    characterized by dignity and propriety

    69.

    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

    70.

    make subservient; force to submit or subdue

    71.

    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety

    72.

    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy

    73.

    naturally having skin of a dark color

    74.

    of supercial relevance if any

    75.

    a large and scholarly book

    76.

    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage

    77.

    in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

    78.

    spurious

    staid

    stolid

    subjugate

    surfeit

    surreptitious

    swarthy

    tangential

    tome

    toady

    torpid

    travesty

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    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style

    79.

    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought

    80.

    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

    81.

    deantly aggressive

    82.

    a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice

    83.

    being present everywhere at once

    84.

    a feeling of anger caused by being oended

    85.

    express criticism towards

    86.

    having a useful function

    87.

    unwillingness to tell lies

    88.

    an indication that something has been present

    89.

    a variation in circumstances or fortune

    trenchant

    trite

    truculent

    turpitude

    ubiquitous

    umbrage

    upbraid

    utilitarian

    veracity

    vestige

    vicissitude

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    90.

    spread negative information about

    91.

    someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any eld

    92.

    harsh, bitter, or malicious in tone

    93.

    spread negative information about

    94.

    conspicuously and oensively loud

    95.

    lewd or lascivious woman

    96.

    charming in a childlike or naive way

    97.

    join with stable gear, as two draft animals

    98.a slight wind

    99.

    marked by skill in deception

    00.

    a speech of violent denunciation

    vilify

    virtuoso

    vitriolic

    vituperate

    vociferous

    wanton

    winsome

    yoke

    zephyr

    wily

    tirade

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