2015-2016 SAT Vocabulary List
1. Abhor: to dislike or
reject something very
strongly
2. Absolve: pronounce
somebody blameless;
forgive somebody
3. Abstruse: difficult to
understand
4. Alacrity: eager
readiness
5. Alleviates: lessen
something
6. Ambience: feeling or
mood associated with a
person or place
7. Ambivalent: unsure;
having mixed feelings
8. Ambles: walk slowly
9. Ameliorate: improve
10. Amenable: willing
to cooperate;
accountable; liable to be
judged
11. Anachronism:
chronological mistake
12. Annals: annual
records or recorded
history
13. Anomaly:
irregularity
14. Antediluvian:
outdated; before record
15. Aphorism: succinct
comment
16. Approbation:
expression of approval
17. Apt: likely
18. Arcane:
mysteriously obscure;
hard to comprehend
19. Ascertain: to find
something out with
certainty
20. Ascetic: one who
lives a life of self-denial
21. Asinine: ridiculous
22. Assiduous:
persistent hard work
23. Assuage: to relieve
from something
unpleasant
24. Atrophied: wasting
away; lessen of ability
25. Attenuate: make or
become weaker
26. Augmented: enlarge
27. Aversions: strong
dislike
28. Banal: dull or
unoriginal
29. Belied: give false
impression
30. Burgeon: produce
new growth; flourish
31. Buttress: something
that gives support
32. Capricious: given to
sudden changes
33. Capsize: overturn in
water
34. Carping:
complaining or finding
fault
35. Celerity: quickness
in movement
36. Cerebral:
intellectual
37. Choleric: badtempered
38. Circuitous: indirect
or round-about
39. Cogent: rationally
persuasive
40. Condescension:
snobby kind of manner
41. Congenial:
agreeable or friendly
42. Consanguineous:
related by blood
43. Contempt: attitude
of utter disgust or hatred
44. Contrition: shame
over past sins
45. Contumacious: very
resistant to authority
46. Convoluted: too
complex or intricate to
understand easily
47. Corpulent: obese
48. Covert: hidden or
secret
49. Curmudgeon:
somebody who is
irritable or stubborn
50. Daunt: frighten
somebody
51. Decorum: dignity or
correctness that is
socially expected
52. Debilitating:
weakening
53. Decimation:
widespread destruction
54. Demur: show
reluctance to do
something
55. Denigration:
criticize harshly or
belittle
56. Denizen: resident of
a place
57. Deprecate: to
express condemnation of
somebody
58. Devoid: lacking
59. Diminishes: make or
become smaller
60. Diminution:
reduction
61. Disdain: intense
scorn
62. Doggedly:
determined
63. Dolorous: sad or
painful
64. Durability: able to
last without damage or
wear
65. Eccentric:
unconventional,
especially in a
whimsical way
66. Ecclesiastical:
belonging to or
involving the Christian
church
67. Eclectic: choosing
from varied sources
68. Emaciated:
extremely thin,
especially because of
starvation or illness
69. Empiricists:
philosophical belief that
knowledge is gained
from experience of
senses
70. Encumbered:
hinder somebody or
something
71. Enfranchised: set
free
72. Enshroud: to cover
up
73. Enthralled:
delighted
74. Enumerate: list
individually
75. Ephemeral: shortlived
76. Epitome: typical
example
77. Equivocal: difficult
to interpret
78. Eradicated: get rid
of something completely
79. Erratically: often
changing direction
80. Eschew: abstain
from
81. Esoteric: intended
for or understood by
only an initiated few
82. Euphemism: a
kinder way of saying
something
83. Evanescent:
disappearing after only a
short time
84. Evocative:
stimulating memories of
the past
85. Exaltation: feeling
of extreme happiness
86. Extant: still in
existence
87. Facile: easy to do
88. Felicitously:
appropriate or highly
suitable
89. Fetid: nauseating
with a rotten or
offensive smell
90. Fettered: restraints;
shackles
91. Fleeting: passing or
fading quickly
92. Foibles: weakness or
quirk
93. Frivolous: not worth
taking seriously
94. Furtive: secretive
95. Garrulous: talking
too much
96. Germane: relevant
and appropriate
97. Grandiose:
pretentious and
pompous
98. Grandiloquent:
pompous manner or
writing
99. Gregarious:
friendly
100. Hackneyed:
unimaginative
101. Hedonistic:
seeking of pleasure
102. Heretical: not
following established
views
103. Hidebound:
narrow-minded and
conservative
104. Hypochondriac:
somebody with
imaginary illness
105. Iconoclast:
somebody challenging
tradition
106. Idiosyncrasy:
quirk; behavior common
to an individual
107. Ignominious:
shameful or despicable
108. Impudence:
deliberate rudeness
109. Inane: silly or
unintelligent
110. Incongruous:
unsuitable or odd;
inconsistent
111. Inculcated:
impress on somebody’s
mind
112. Induce: persuade
to do something
113. Inimical: not
favorable; hostile
114. Insidious: gradual
and harmful
115. Insuperable:
unable to be overcome
116. Interminable:
seemingly endless
117. Intone: chant a
prayer
118. Invigorate: fill
with energy
119. Irascible: quick
tempered; showing
anger
120. Itinerant: traveling
on the job
121. Jargon: specialist
language
122. Jettison: throw
something overboard
123. Judicious: sensible
and wise
124. Laconic: using few
words
125. Lament: be sad
about something
126. Languid: without
energy
127. Laud: praise
somebody
128. Lionize: make
celebrity of
129. Lithe: able to move
or bend the body lightly
and gracefully
130. Lucid: easily
understood
131. Mar: to ruin or
spoil
132. Meager:
unsatisfactorily small
133. Meanders: follow
a twisted route
134. Meticulous:
precise and painstaking
135. Misanthrope:
somebody who hates
people (humankind in
general)
136. Mitigates: lessen
something
137. Nullify: make
something invalid
138. Obtuse: slow to
learn
139. Opprobrium:
scorn, contempt, or
severe criticism
140. Orator: giver of
speeches
141. Ostensibly:
seeming to be true or
genuine, but open to
doubt.. syn: apparently
142. Paltry:
insignificant
143. Panache: dashing
type; display of spirited
style and self confidence
144. Parch: dry out
145. Pariah: outcast
146. Parochial: narrowminded; only concerned
with local affairs
147. Paucity: an
inadequacy or lack of
something
148. Peccadillo: a petty
or unimportant offense
149. Pellucid: clear
150. Pedantic: too
concerned with formal
rules or details
151. Penurious: having
very little money; not
generous
152. Perfidy: deliberate
treachery
153. Precipitous: acting
without thought
154. Perennial:
recurring or enduring
155. Pervasive:
spreading everywhere
156. Phlegmatic:
characterized by a lack
of emotion
157. Pinioned: retrained
(usually from flying)
158. Pique: bad mood;
put somebody in bad
mood
159. Posterity: all future
generations
160. Pragmatism:
straightforward way of
thinking that is mostly
concerned with results
161. Predilections: a
particular liking
162. Preeminent:
highly distinguished or
outstanding
163. Perfunctory: done
as a matter of duty or
custom
164. Polemicists: skilled
arguer
165. Precocious:
mentally advanced for
age; blossoming or
ripening early
166. Prerogative:
individual right or
privilege
167. Prodigal: spending
parental money
wastefully
168. Proliferation:
rapid increase
169. Propitious: kindly
disposed or gracious
170. Puerile: silly or
immature, especially in
a childish way
171. Punctilious:
showing great care in
small details
172. Raconteur:
someone who tells
entertaining stories
173. Rancid: causing
disgust
174. Recalcitrant:
resisting control
175. Refute: prove
something wrong
176. Regale: entertain
somebody
177. Remission:
slowing of disease;
slowing of something
178. Repository: place
or receptacle for storage
179. Repudiate: deny
something
180. Resonant: deep in
sound
181. Reverence: respect
felt or gained
182. Rhetoric:
persuasive speech or
writing
183. Rigid: firm and
stiff
184. Rife: widespread
and plentiful
185. Salubrious: good
for the health
186. Scintillate: sparkle;
emit light flashes
187. Sequestration:
seizing or being seized;
going into isolation
188. Serendipity: gift of
discovering things by
accident
189. Serpentine:
winding
190. Sonorous:
producing sound;
resonant
191. Soporific: making
somebody sleepy;
feeling sleepy
192. Specious:
deceptively attractive
193. Sporadic:
occurring irregularly
194. Stagnant: still and
unmoving
195. Stifled: check or
repress
196. Stoic: somebody
who appears unaffected
by emotions
197. Stupefy: amaze; to
make someone not think
clearly
198. Subjugate: for into
submission
199. Sublime: beautiful;
morally worthy
200. Subsiding:
diminish in intensity
201. Succinct: brief and
to the point
202. Sybarite: someone
seeking sensual
gratification
203. Taciturn: silent by
nature
204. Teeming: a large
amount of people or
animals in a place
205. Temerity: reckless
confidence that might be
offensive
206. Thwarted:
frustrate something
207. Tractable: very
easy to control or
persuade
208. Tranquil: calm and
peaceful
209. Trepidation: fear
or uneasiness about the
future
210. Trite: overused
211. Truculence:
extreme anger or
aggression
212. Trudge: walk
wearily
213. Tyro: beginner
214. Ubiquitous:
existing everywhere
215. Unanimity: agreed
on by everyone
216. Uniformity:
particular identifying
look
217. Unorthodox: not
following traditional
beliefs
218. Vacillate: to be
decisive; to sway side to
side
219. Vacuous: empty of
meaning
220. Veracity:
truthfulness
221. Verbose: using too
many words
222. Verdant: green
with vegetation or
foliage