SAT Preparation
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There will be an introduction, the site address and then directions or explanations about the
site. The three highlighted sites would be a good place to begin.
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Vocabulary
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Vocabulary from Kaplan
SAT - The Top 100 Vocab Words
Information Provided by Kaplan Test Prep
Extensive reading is the best way to develop your command of tough
vocabulary. But cramming Shakespeare and Milton before the test is not very
practical. So, we've done a little investigating and have compiled the top 100
vocabulary words of all time.
Use this list to strengthen your vocabulary and prepare for the test day
challenge.
1. abbreviate: (v) to shorten, abridge
2. abstinence: (n) the act of refraining from pleasurable activity, e.g.,
eating or drinking
3. adulation: (n) high praise
4. adversity: (n) misfortune, an unfavorable turn of events
5. aesthetic: (adj) pertaining to beauty or the arts
6. amicable: (adj) friendly, agreeable
7. anachronistic: (adj) out-of-date, not attributed to the correct historical
period
8. anecdote: (n) short, usually funny account of an event
9. anonymous: (adj) nameless, without a disclosed identity
10. antagonist: (n) foe, opponent, adversary
11. arid: (adj) extremely dry or deathly boring
12. assiduous: (adj) persistent, hard-working
13. asylum: (n) sanctuary, shelter, place of refuge
14. benevolent: (adj) friendly and helpful
15. camaraderie: (n) trust, sociability amongst friends
16. censure: (v) to criticize harshly
17. circuitous: (adj) indirect, taking the longest route
18. clairvoyant: (adj) exceptionally insightful, able to foresee the future
19. collaborate: (v) to cooperate, work together
20. compassion: (n) sympathy, helpfulness or mercy
21. compromise: (v) to settle a dispute by terms agreeable to both sides
22. condescending: (adj) possessing an attitude of superiority, patronizing
23. conditional: (adj) depending on a condition, e.g., in a contract
24. conformist: (n) person who complies with accepted rules and customs
25. congregation: (n) a crowd of people, an assembly
26. convergence: (n) the state of separate elements joining or coming
together
27. deleterious: (adj) harmful, destructive, detrimental
28. demagogue: (n) leader, rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or
prejudice
29. digression: (n) the act of turning aside, straying from the main point,
esp. in a speech or argument
30. diligent: (adj) careful and hard-working
31. discredit: (v) to harm the reputation of, dishonor or disgrace
32. disdain: (v) to regard with scorn or contempt
33. divergent: (adj) separating, moving in different directions from a
particular point
34. empathy: (n) identification with the feelings of others
35. emulate: (v) to imitate, follow an example
36. enervating: (adj) weakening, tiring
37. enhance: (v) to improve, bring to a greater level of intensity
38. ephemeral: (adj) momentary, transient, fleeting
39. evanescent: (adj) quickly fading, short-lived, esp. an image
40. exasperation: (n) irritation, frustration
41. exemplary: (adj) outstanding, an example to others
42. extenuating: (adj) excusing, lessening the seriousness of guilt or crime,
e.g., of mitigating factors
43. florid: (adj) red-colored, flushed; gaudy, ornate
44. fortuitous: (adj) happening by luck, fortunate
45. frugal: (adj) thrifty, cheap
46. hackneyed: (adj) cliched, worn out by overuse
47. haughty: (adj) arrogant and condescending
48. hedonist: (n) person who pursues pleasure as a goal
49. hypothesis: (n) assumption, theory requiring proof
50. impetuous: (adj) rash, impulsive, acting without thinking
51. impute: (v) to attribute an action to particular person or group
52. incompatible: (adj) opposed in nature, not able to live or work together
53. inconsequential: (adj) unimportant, trivial
54. inevitable: (adj) certain, unavoidable
55. integrity: (n) decency, honesty, wholeness
56. intrepid: (adj) fearless, adventurous
57. intuitive: (adj) instinctive, untaught
58. jubilation: (n) joy, celebration, exultation
59. lobbyist: (n) person who seeks to influence political events
60. longevity: (n) long life
61. mundane: (adj) ordinary, commonplace
62. nonchalant: (adj) calm, casual, seeming unexcited
63. novice: (n) apprentice, beginner
64. opulent: (adj) wealthy
65. orator: (n) lecturer, speaker
66. ostentatious: (adj) showy, displaying wealth
67. parched: (adj) dried up, shriveled
68. perfidious: (adj) faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy
69. precocious: (adj) unusually advanced or talented at an early age
70. pretentious: (adj) pretending to be important, intelligent or cultured
71. procrastinate: (v) to unnecessarily delay, postpone, put off
72. prosaic: (adj) relating to prose; dull, commonplace
73. prosperity: (n) wealth or success
74. provocative: (adj) tending to provoke a response, e.g., anger or
disagreement
75. prudent: (adj) careful, cautious
76. querulous: (adj) complaining, irritable
77. rancorous: (adj) bitter, hateful
78. reclusive: (adj) preferring to live in isolation
79. reconciliation: (n) the act of agreement after a quarrel, the resolution of
a dispute
80. renovation: (n) repair, making something new again
81. resilient: (adj) quick to recover, bounce back
82. restrained: (adj) controlled, repressed, restricted
83. reverence: (n) worship, profound respect
84. sagacity: (n) wisdom
85. scrutinize: (v) to observe carefully
86. spontaneity: (n) impulsive action, unplanned events
87. spurious: (adj) lacking authenticity, false
88. submissive: (adj) tending to meekness, to submit to the will of others
89. substantiate: (v) to verify, confirm, provide supporting evidence
90. subtle: (adj) hard to detect or describe; perceptive
91. superficial: (adj) shallow, lacking in depth
92. superfluous: (adj) extra, more than enough, redundant
93. suppress: (v) to end an activity, e.g., to prevent the dissemination of
information
94. surreptitious: (adj) secret, stealthy
95. tactful: (adj) considerate, skillful in acting to avoid offense to others
96. tenacious: (adj) determined, keeping a firm grip on
97. transient: (adj) temporary, short-lived, fleeting
98. venerable: (adj) respected because of age
99. vindicate: (v) to clear from blame or suspicion
100.
wary: (adj) careful, cautious
ABOUT THE SITE: Jan and Carey Cook are a husband and wife team that began their
educational web activities in February 1995. They create two nationally syndicated word
puzzles called Rootonym® for both Tribune Media Services Inc. and Universal Press/uclick
LLC. There are over 19,000 schools in the USA and 1000+ overseas that have students and
teachers participating in this free vocabulary education site. See our list of participating
schools. We meet the state standards for the NCLB act.
http://www.vocabulary.com/top144satwords.html
Games to practice SAT words
Vocabulary for above games
 ALL 144 WORDS from 8 SESSIONS in alphabetical order:
abject, abstract, acrimonious, acumen, aesthetic, affinity, affluence, alacrity, analogous,
apathy, arbitrary, benevolent, candid, capricious, clairvoyant, chicanery, cognizant,
complacent, compulsory, conciliatory, conjecture, conspicuous, deleterious, destitute,
deviate, (-25-) devious, diligent, discernible, disdain, disparage, disseminate, diverse,
dogmatic, eccentric, emulate, enigma, epiphany, erudite, expedite, exonerate, extricate,
facetious, fallacious, fortuitous, futile, gratuitous, hackneyed, homogeneous, impeccable,
impervious, (-50-) impetuous, incessant, incorrigible, indifferent, indolent, incognito,
inevitable, innocuous, inquisitive, insatiable, insidious, integrity, jocular, judicious,
kindle, kinetic, lethargy, loquacious, ludicrous, lugubrious, meticulous, mitigate, morose,
mundane, nihilism, (-75-) novice, obscure, obsequious, oscillate, ostensible, ostentatious,
palpable, pandemonium, paradigm, penitent, pertinent, plausible, precipitous, precocious,
prerogative, prevaricate, propensity, provocative, querulous, quiescent, recalcitrant,
ramification, rapacious, recant, reclusive, (-100-) recrimination, rectify, redolent,
redundant, refutable , regressive, relegate, relinquish, remonstrate, reparation, replenish,
repose, reprehensible, repudiate, requisite, resilient, resolute, reticent, reverence,
rigorous, rudimentary, sanguine, scrutinize, sedentary, soporific, (-125-) spontaneous,
squander, stringent, succinct, superficial, surreptitious, terse, theoretical, truncate,
ubiquitous, unctuous, unobtrusive, unscrupulous, vacuous, vindictive, virulent, wanton,
xenophile, zenith
 36 WORDS from SESSIONS #9 and #10 in alphabetical order (foreign &
Science/Biology):
Aficionado, Alchemy, Ambiance, Avatar, Bourgeois, Chaparral, Cognoscente,
Connoisseur, Dilettante, Embryonic, Entomologist, Imbroglio, Indefatigable, Indigenous,
Industrious, Iridescent, Insatiable, Insecticide, Juggernaut, Junta, Larvae, Metamorphosis,
Nemesis, Malaise, Nirvana, Nocturnal, Peccadillo, Pollinate, Proboscis, Quarantine,
Raconteur, Subterranean, Trepidation, Ubiquitous, Vignette, Virtuoso
 72 WORDS from SESSIONS #11 and #12 in alphabetical order with the hardest 12
words are already solved for you:
abstinence, affectation, alkaline, apocalypse, apostate, auspices, autonomy, boreal,
brogue, carnage, chatelaine, clathrate, cognitive, cryptic, denigrate, dilettante,
disquisition, draconian, efficacy, elan, expatriate, facile, feckless, fez, fiasco, fissionable,
founder, gyre, hegemony, hermeneutics, indigenous, inhibitory, inscrutable, insolvency,
insurgency, interstices, inviolable, lattice, litigious, littoral, malleable, manifestation,
manse, myriad, oblique, oxymoron, pas de deux, pelagic, Pentecostal, philander, pietism,
pique, placebo, polity, postmodern, pretext, proliferation, promulgate, pseudonym,
rapprochement, reactionary, relegate, renounce, resonate, revitalize, servile, sophistry,
stymie, substrate, subversion, template, wrought
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Vocabulary practice tests of 10 words that you can submit for immediate correction. Fast
and easy for daily vocabulary practice activity. Go to SAT Prep, Select word by meaning
~ Click on any of the quizzes below and practice.
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Reading and Writing Practice Site
Yahoo
http://education.yahoo.com/college/essentials/practice_tests/sat/;_ylt=AscJSOXNhmrltlK
1BEz0Ml7Dw8kF
Excellent way to practice with immediate feedback with explantion.
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Below is a long list of sites that I borrowed. It can be overwhelming.
Preparing for the SAT (and other tests) Online (and electronically)
ETS http://www.ets.org
Princeton Review (Eye on Test Prep) http://www.review.com/index.cfm?
ACT http://www.act.org/
AP Information http://www.collegeboard.com/ap/students/index.html
College Board SAT Question of the Day
http://cbweb9p.collegeboard.org/tqod/bin/question.cgi
4Tests.com http://4tests.com/
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
100 Most Common SAT Words (activities) http://www.quia.com/jg/1527.html
Presentation Dynamics Resource Center for the SAT
http://www.testinfo.net/sat.htm
SAT Math Trial Area http://www.satmath.com/sat1/index3.html
SAT Math Practice Test http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Geom/quiza.html
Vocabulary University http://www.vocabulary.com/
Vocabulary Word Games http://sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm
Information about the SAT (Articles you may find of interest)
NPR The New SAT
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4528303
College Board: About the SAT http://collegeboard.org/sat/center/html/sat.html
PBS Secrets of the SAT http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sats/
Fair Test: SAT/ACT Optional Schools http://fairtest.org/optional.htm
Frontline: Secrets of the SAT
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sats/
Parents' Guide to Standardized Tests
http://familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,24-9028,00.html
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Essay Writing
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SAT Essay Information
Practice the assignment on the above page and then look and compare yours with the
sample essays at the bottom.
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Article about what will help when writing the SAT essay.