<p>Hi i'm going to be taking the june 7th SAT...Is there any particular vocab list for CR that anybody would recommend. i.e. Barrons, online sources...</p>
<p>Thank you so much.</p>
<p>thanks
10char</p>
<p>Here's one posted by S.F.3000 otherwise know as vadoxx. This is a list of vocab he compiled which can be found in the SAT Preparation section under the thread "How I went from 1800 to 2300+"</p>
<p>Here is his list:</p>
<p>Vocab list:</p>
<p>1) Acme</p>
<p>High point</p>
<p>2) Bane</p>
<p>A cause for ruin</p>
<p>3) Bevy</p>
<p>A large group</p>
<p>4) Bilk</p>
<p>To steal; to embezzle</p>
<p>5) Boon</p>
<p>A sudden gain</p>
<p>6) Boor</p>
<p>A rude person</p>
<p>7) Fawn</p>
<p>To flatter subserviently (eager to please)</p>
<p>8) Gait</p>
<p>A manner of walking</p>
<p>9) Glut</p>
<p>To oversupply</p>
<p>10) Mire</p>
<p>A swamp; quagmire</p>
<p>11) Esoteric</p>
<p>Difficult to understand</p>
<p>12) Admonishing</p>
<p>Warning</p>
<p>13) Contrite</p>
<p>Remorseful</p>
<p>14) Penitent</p>
<p>Remorseful</p>
<p>15) Emphatic</p>
<p>Stressing one’s point</p>
<p>16) Bemusement</p>
<p>Puzzlement</p>
<p>17) Indignation</p>
<p>Anger</p>
<p>18) Onus</p>
<p>A duty or burden</p>
<p>19) Tome</p>
<p>A large book</p>
<p>20) Tout</p>
<p>To display proudly</p>
<p>21) Tyro</p>
<p>A beginner</p>
<p>22) Aesthete</p>
<p>One who seeks out/appreciates beauty</p>
<p>23) Alacrity</p>
<p>Cheerful readiness/eagerness</p>
<p>24) Aphorism</p>
<p>A wise saying</p>
<p>25) (to) Appropriate</p>
<p>To take another’s property as one’s own</p>
<p>26) Arable</p>
<p>Able to be farmed</p>
<p>27) Arboreal</p>
<p>Relating to trees</p>
<p>28) Conspicuous</p>
<p>Clearly visible</p>
<p>29) Auspicious</p>
<p>Foretelling well for the future</p>
<p>30) Avant-garde</p>
<p>New, cutting edge</p>
<p>31) Bequest</p>
<p>A gift upon one’s death</p>
<p>32) (to) brook</p>
<p>To endure</p>
<p>33) (to) bungle</p>
<p>To screw up</p>
<p>34) Byzantine</p>
<p>Fancy</p>
<p>35) Celerity</p>
<p>Swiftness of speed</p>
<p>36) Cerebral</p>
<p>Intellectual</p>
<p>37) Chagrin</p>
<p>An embarrassment</p>
<p>38) Circumscribed</p>
<p>Isolated; defined or limited</p>
<p>39) Cloy</p>
<p>Overly sweet</p>
<p>40) Confound</p>
<p>To confuse</p>
<p>41) Conjecture</p>
<p>A guess</p>
<p>42) Constituents</p>
<p>Voters</p>
<p>43) Consummate</p>
<p>Perfect</p>
<p>44) Curtail</p>
<p>To cut short</p>
<p>45) Debased</p>
<p>Morally low</p>
<p>46) Decorous</p>
<p>Appropriate for the situation</p>
<p>47) Dilatory</p>
<p>Lacking aim or purpose</p>
<p>48) Desultory</p>
<p>Lacking aim or purpose</p>
<p>49) Didactic</p>
<p>Instructive</p>
<p>50) Din</p>
<p>Noise</p>
<p>51) Dirge</p>
<p>A funeral song</p>
<p>52) Discomfited</p>
<p>To feel embarrassed</p>
<p>53) Discretionary</p>
<p>Based on personal choice</p>
<p>54) Disingenuous</p>
<p>Dishonest</p>
<p>55) Disposition</p>
<p>Behavioural inclination</p>
<p>56) Edifice</p>
<p>Building</p>
<p>57) Effigy</p>
<p>A crude resemblance of a loathed person</p>
<p>58) Egregious</p>
<p>Blatantly wrong</p>
<p>59) Emollient</p>
<p>Soothing lotion</p>
<p>60) Empirical</p>
<p>Based on data, facts, observations</p>
<p>61) Enervate</p>
<p>To drain of energy</p>
<p>62) Enfranchise</p>
<p>To free from slavery and bestow the right to vote</p>
<p>63) Epitaph</p>
<p>Words on a tomb</p>
<p>64) Espouse</p>
<p>To support</p>
<p>65) Expurgate/bowdlerize</p>
<p>To remove obscene text from a media</p>
<p>66) Extempore</p>
<p>With little or no preparation, impromptu</p>
<p>67) Felicitous</p>
<p>Suitable, appropriate</p>
<p>68) Galvanize</p>
<p>To arouse into action</p>
<p>69) Gaunt</p>
<p>Thin, haggard</p>
<p>70) Grovel</p>
<p>To beg/please/crawl/behave subordinately</p>
<p>71) Harbinger</p>
<p>Bringer of news, messenger</p>
<p>72) Hermetic</p>
<p>Airtight</p>
<p>73) Histrionic</p>
<p>Overly dramatic</p>
<p>74) Hubris</p>
<p>Excessive pride</p>
<p>75) Incantation</p>
<p>A calling out for inspiration/guidance</p>
<p>76) Inchoate</p>
<p>Not fully formed</p>
<p>77) Incisive</p>
<p>Acute/cutting</p>
<p>78) Incumbent</p>
<p>One who holds political office</p>
<p>79) Indelible</p>
<p>Permanent</p>
<p>80) Ineffable</p>
<p>Incapable of expression in words</p>
<p>81) Inflammatory</p>
<p>Likely to excite rage/disorder</p>
<p>82) Insular</p>
<p>Remote, isolated</p>
<p>83) Intemperate</p>
<p>Immoderate</p>
<p>84) Interlocutor</p>
<p>One who participates in discussion</p>
<p>85) Intractable</p>
<p>Hard to control</p>
<p>86) Jaded</p>
<p>Bored from overconsumption/too much indulgence</p>
<p>87) Juxtapose</p>
<p>To place side by side for the sake of comparison</p>
<p>88) Leviathan</p>
<p>Something huge; a subaquatic, mythological sea creature</p>
<p>89) Licentious</p>
<p>Morally lax</p>
<p>90) Milieu</p>
<p>Environment</p>
<p>91) Myopic</p>
<p>Bad eyes</p>
<p>92) Nihilism</p>
<p>The philosophy of rejecting established values and morality</p>
<p>93) Nondescript</p>
<p>Featureless</p>
<p>94) Nonplussed</p>
<p>Confused to the point of being unable to speak</p>
<p>95) Oblique</p>
<p>Indirect</p>
<p>96) Olfactory</p>
<p>Relating to the sense of smell</p>
<p>97) Ostensible</p>
<p>Apparent</p>
<p>98) Panacea</p>
<p>A cure-all</p>
<p>99) Partisan</p>
<p>Biased; opinionated</p>
<p>100) Pathos</p>
<p>Empathy; pity</p>
<p>101) Pedagogic</p>
<p>Relating to education</p>
<p>102) Pedantic</p>
<p>Narrowly or pretentiously learned; being a stickler for academic correctness</p>
<p>103) Perfidious</p>
<p>Disloyal</p>
<p>104) Petulant</p>
<p>Irritated</p>
<p>105) Plaudits</p>
<p>Praise; applause</p>
<p>106) Pontificate</p>
<p>To speak in a self-important manner</p>
<p>107) Pragmatism</p>
<p>A practical person</p>
<p>108) Precept</p>
<p>Set of rules or conditions</p>
<p>109) Precipitate</p>
<p>To hurry up, to make happen faster</p>
<p>110) Prescience</p>
<p>Advanced knowledge</p>
<p>111) Probity</p>
<p>Honesty</p>
<p>112) Profligate</p>
<p>Recklessly wasteful</p>
<p>113) Proliferate</p>
<p>To multiply rapidly</p>
<p>114) Promulgate</p>
<p>To announce (formally) a set of laws</p>
<p>115) Pundit</p>
<p>Scholarly person</p>
<p>116) Qualm</p>
<p>Doubt, hesitation</p>
<p>117) Quibble</p>
<p>To find fault with</p>
<p>118) Quixotic</p>
<p>Romantic, dreamy</p>
<p>119) Refractory/obstinate</p>
<p>Stubborn</p>
<p>120) Relegate</p>
<p>To demote to a lower position</p>
<p>121) Reprehensible</p>
<p>Worthy of blame</p>
<p>122) Rescind</p>
<p>To withdraw or take back</p>
<p>123) Retrograde</p>
<p>Moving backwards and therefore not progressing</p>
<p>124) (to) sanction</p>
<p>To approve</p>
<p>125) Sanctimonious</p>
<p>Pretending to be religion</p>
<p>126) Serendipity</p>
<p>Faculty of benefiting by chance</p>
<p>127) Sophistry</p>
<p>Deceptive thinking, invalid argument</p>
<p>128) Scrupulous</p>
<p>Very conscientious</p>
<p>129) Spate</p>
<p>An outpouring</p>
<p>130) Specious</p>
<p>False, not authentic</p>
<p>131) Stupefy</p>
<p>To stun</p>
<p>132) Subterfuge</p>
<p>Deception</p>
<p>133) Abstemious</p>
<p>Moderate; not self-indulging</p>
<p>134) Ambiguous</p>
<p>Obscure</p>
<p>135) Ambivalence</p>
<p>Having mixed feelings towards something</p>
<p>136) Amorphous</p>
<p>Shapeless</p>
<p>137) Anarchy</p>
<p>Political/social disorder</p>
<p>138) Apathetic</p>
<p>Indifference</p>
<p>139) Apprehensive</p>
<p>Feeling of dread</p>
<p>140) Ascetic</p>
<p>A person who practices sever self discipline</p>
<p>141) Assiduous</p>
<p>Hard working</p>
<p>142) Assuage</p>
<p>Soothe, calm</p>
<p>143) Augment</p>
<p>To make greater</p>
<p>144) Benevolent</p>
<p>Wishing to do good</p>
<p>145) Candour</p>
<p>Frankness</p>
<p>146) Censure</p>
<p>To criticize harshly</p>
<p>147) Circumspect</p>
<p>Taking everything into account</p>
<p>148) Coerce</p>
<p>To persuade by force</p>
<p>149) Commensurate</p>
<p>Equal in size/dimensions</p>
<p>150) Conflagration</p>
<p>A GREAT and destructive fire</p>
<p>151) Dawdle</p>
<p>To waste time</p>
<p>152) Dearth</p>
<p>Scarcity</p>
<p>153) Debilitate</p>
<p>Weaken</p>
<p>154) Deference</p>
<p>Submission or courteous regard for another’s wish</p>
<p>155) Deleterious</p>
<p>Harmful</p>
<p>156) Despotism</p>
<p>Tyranny</p>
<p>157) Digression</p>
<p>Act of wandering away from the subject</p>
<p>158) Dilapidated</p>
<p>Decayed because of neglect or age</p>
<p>159) Diminution</p>
<p>Lessening in size</p>
<p>160) Disparity</p>
<p>Difference; condition of inequality</p>
<p>161) Dissuade</p>
<p>Advise against</p>
<p>162) Domineer</p>
<p>To rule over tyrannically</p>
<p>163) Supplant</p>
<p>To replace as better</p>
<p>164) Surfeit</p>
<p>An overabundance</p>
<p>165) Sybarite</p>
<p>Please-loving person</p>
<p>166) Synergistic</p>
<p>Working together and having a greater combine effect because of simultaneous operation</p>
<p>167) Table</p>
<p>To put aside an issue for later discussion</p>
<p>168) Tawdry</p>
<p>Cheap looking; poor</p>
<p>169) Temerity</p>
<p>Reckless boldness</p>
<p>170) Temper</p>
<p>To lessen the severity of</p>
<p>171) Threadbare</p>
<p>Very worn; shabby</p>
<p>172) Truculent</p>
<p>Overly hostile</p>
<p>173) Turgid</p>
<p>Swollen; pompous</p>
<p>174) Unctuous</p>
<p>Inky, oily</p>
<p>175) Unheralded</p>
<p>Unannounced</p>
<p>176) Untenable</p>
<p>Unable to be defended</p>
<p>177) Vaunt</p>
<p>To brag/boast</p>
<p>178) Venial</p>
<p>Pardonable</p>
<p>179) Verdant</p>
<p>Green, lush</p>
<p>180) Verisimilitude</p>
<p>Something that has the appearance of truth</p>
<p>181) Vestigial</p>
<p>Extremely small</p>
<p>182) Victuals</p>
<p>Food</p>
<p>183) Vignette</p>
<p>Brief written description</p>
<p>184) Virile</p>
<p>Manly, strong</p>
<p>185) Visceral</p>
<p>Related to the abdomen</p>
<p>186) Vitiate</p>
<p>To impair</p>
<p>187) Vitriolic</p>
<p>Harsh, biting</p>
<p>188) Watershed</p>
<p>Turning point</p>
<p>189) Waylay</p>
<p>Ambush</p>
<p>190) Wheedle</p>
<p>To cajole</p>
<p>191) Wily</p>
<p>sly</p>
<p>192) Windfall</p>
<p>Unexpected boon</p>
<p>193) Winsome</p>
<p>attractive</p>
<p>194) Obfuscate</p>
<p>To obscure the meaning of</p>
<p>195) Ennui</p>
<p>Feeling of boredom from something tedious</p>
<p>196) Eccentric</p>
<p>Irregular</p>
<p>197) Emaciated</p>
<p>Extremely thin</p>
<p>198) Embellish</p>
<p>To adorn; beautify</p>
<p>199) Erratic</p>
<p>Irregular in movement</p>
<p>200) Expedite</p>
<p>To speed up the progress of</p>
<p>201) Explicit</p>
<p>Obviously understood</p>
<p>202) Expunge</p>
<p>To remove something completely</p>
<p>203) Extricate</p>
<p>To release from difficulty</p>
<p>204) Embezzlement</p>
<p>To steal</p>
<p>205) Fallacious</p>
<p>Containing mistaken belief</p>
<p>206) Fallow</p>
<p>Uncultivated</p>
<p>207) Fastidious</p>
<p>Difficult to please</p>
<p>208) Flagrant</p>
<p>Egregious </p>
<p>209) Frivolous</p>
<p>Lack of seriousness</p>
<p>210) Furtive</p>
<p>Stealthy</p>
<p>211) Reconcile</p>
<p>To make up differences between</p>
<p>212) Gluttonous</p>
<p>Extremely greedy</p>
<p>213) Innocuous</p>
<p>Harmless</p>
<p>214) Insipid</p>
<p>Dull, tasteless, vapid</p>
<p>215) Insolvency</p>
<p>Inability to pay one’s debts</p>
<p>216) Languid</p>
<p>Slowness of movement</p>
<p>217) Leniency</p>
<p>Not strict</p>
<p>218) Levity</p>
<p>Lightness, frivolity (lack of seriousness)</p>
<p>219) Miser</p>
<p>One who hordes thigns</p>
<p>220) Monotony</p>
<p>Having the same thing occur over and over in a tedious manner</p>
<p>221) Precocious</p>
<p>Very early development</p>
<p>222) Prattle</p>
<p>To chatter childishly</p>
<p>223) Recalcitrant</p>
<p>Resisting authority</p>
<p>224) Venerate</p>
<p>To honour</p>
<p>225) Revere</p>
<p>To honour</p>
<p>226) Sequester</p>
<p>To isolate</p>
<p>227) Servile</p>
<p>Fawning (to flatter subserviently (eager to please))</p>
<p>228) Squalid</p>
<p>Poor looking, tawdry</p>
<p>229) Taciturn</p>
<p>Silent</p>
<p>230) Virtuoso</p>
<p>Talented artist</p>
<p>231) Respite</p>
<p>Period of rest</p>
<p>232) Prodigal</p>
<p>Wasteful</p>
<p>233) Prudent</p>
<p>Cautious (especially with money)</p>
<p>234) Prodigious</p>
<p>Enormous</p>
<p>235) Profusion</p>
<p>Abundance of</p>
<p>236) Prolific</p>
<p>Abundantly fruitful</p>
<p>237) Complacent</p>
<p>Overly confident with one’s accomplishments</p>
<p>238) Disparage</p>
<p>To insult/put down</p>
<p>239) Refute</p>
<p>To prove wrong</p>
<p>240) Discern</p>
<p>To notice</p>
<p>241) Dubious</p>
<p>Doubtful</p>
<p>242) Eradicate</p>
<p>To wipe out completely</p>
<p>243) Discord</p>
<p>Disagreement</p>
<p>244) Eclectic</p>
<p>Selecting only the best</p>
<p>245) Vindicate</p>
<p>To free from blame</p>
<p>246) Solicitous</p>
<p>Eager to help</p>
<p>247) Autonomy</p>
<p>Self-independence</p>
<p>248) Pretentiousness</p>
<p>Feeling of (too much) self-importance</p>
<p>249) Ephemeral</p>
<p>Short –lived</p>
<p>250) Spurious</p>
<p>Not genuine</p>
<p>251) Mundane</p>
<p>Relating to everyday life</p>
<p>252) Impetuous</p>
<p>Rash</p>
<p>253) Repudiate</p>
<p>To reject a person/idea completely</p>
<p>254) Diverge</p>
<p>To go apart</p>
<p>255) Converge</p>
<p>To come together</p>
<p>256) Incongruous</p>
<p>Out of place</p>
<p>257) Diffident</p>
<p>Shy</p>
<p>258) Transient</p>
<p>Passing through a place quickly</p>
<p>259) Prosaic</p>
<p>Ordinary</p>
<p>260) Condescend</p>
<p>To speak down to</p>
<p>261) Substantiate</p>
<p>To help prove</p>
<p>262) Lucid</p>
<p>Clear</p>
<p>263) Polemical</p>
<p>Arguing a position</p>
<p>264) Belie</p>
<p>To contradict</p>
<p>265) Disdain</p>
<p>To regard with scorn/comtempt</p>
<p>266) Deferential</p>
<p>Courteous regard to someone’s wish</p>
<p>267) Capricious</p>
<p>Unpredictable</p>
<p>268) Exacerbate</p>
<p>To make a bad situation worse</p>
<p>269) Dogmatic</p>
<p>Stubbornly opinionated</p>
<p>270) Gregarious/genial</p>
<p>Friendly</p>
<p>271) Tenacious</p>
<p>Persistent</p>
<p>272) Meticulous</p>
<p>Extremely careful</p>
<p>273) Equanimity</p>
<p>Calm</p>
<p>274) Transitory</p>
<p>Lasting short duration</p>
<p>275) Immutable</p>
<p>Eternal, unchanging</p>
<p>276) Cursory</p>
<p>Hurried, rash,</p>
<p>277) Rancour</p>
<p>Extremely bad feeling about something</p>
<p>278) Satirize</p>
<p>To mimic so as to make fun of</p>
<p>279) Underscore</p>
<p>Emphasize</p>
<p>280) Exasperate</p>
<p>Annoyed to the point of frustration</p>
<p>281) Pertinent</p>
<p>Important</p>
<p>282) Pervasive</p>
<p>Appearing/being everywhere</p>
<p>283) Tenuous</p>
<p>Thin, unable to support anything</p>
<p>284) Attenuate</p>
<p>To make tenuous</p>
<p>285) Innate</p>
<p>Inborn ability</p>
<p>286) Exacting</p>
<p>Demanding</p>
<p>287) (to) Champion</p>
<p>To support</p>
<p>288) Pedantic</p>
<p>Being a stickler for academic correctness</p>
<p>289) Anachronistic</p>
<p>Out of date</p>
<p>290) Conciliatory</p>
<p>Overcoming hostility</p>
<p>291) Reticent</p>
<p>Restrained</p>
<p>292) Candid</p>
<p>Free from prejudice</p>
<p>293) Morose</p>
<p>Gloomy</p>
<p>294) Ostentatious</p>
<p>Showy, pretentious</p>
<p>295) Prevaricate</p>
<p>Evading the truth</p>
<p>296) Querulous</p>
<p>Expressing complaint</p>
<p>297) Repose</p>
<p>Calmness</p>
<p>298) Virulent</p>
<p>Bitterly hostile</p>
<p>299) Quiescent</p>
<p>Still, dormant</p>
<p>300) Abject</p>
<p>Miserable</p>
<p>301) Affluence</p>
<p>Wealth</p>
<p>302) Analogous</p>
<p>Similar in function</p>
<p>303) Cognizant</p>
<p>Knowing</p>
<p>304) Destitute</p>
<p>Utterly lacking</p>
<p>305) Disseminate</p>
<p>To spread</p>
<p>306) Fortuitous</p>
<p>Happen by accident /chance</p>
<p>307) Clairvoyance</p>
<p>Ability to see into future</p>
<p>308) Regressive</p>
<p>To go back</p>
<p>309) Succinct/terse</p>
<p>Brief</p>
<p>310) Wanton</p>
<p>Immoral</p>
<p>311) Rapacious</p>
<p>Greedy</p>
<p>312) Recant</p>
<p>To formally deny</p>
<p>313) Redolent</p>
<p>Strongly scented</p>
<p>314) Remonstrate</p>
<p>To beg/plead in protest</p>
<p>315) Reparation</p>
<p>The act of amending</p>
<p>316) Requisite</p>
<p>Requirement</p>
<p>317) Rudiment</p>
<p>Principle</p>
<p>318) Credulous</p>
<p>Gullible</p>
<p>319) Emblazon</p>
<p>To embellish</p>
<p>320) Paucity</p>
<p>Scarcity of</p>
<p>321) Adulation</p>
<p>High praise</p>
<p>322) Amicable</p>
<p>Friendly</p>
<p>323) Amiable</p>
<p>Friendly</p>
<p>324) Arid</p>
<p>Very dry</p>
<p>325) Asylum</p>
<p>Safe house</p>
<p>326) Camaraderie</p>
<p>Feeling of goodwill among friends</p>
<p>327) Circuitous</p>
<p>Taking the longest possible route</p>
<p>328) Conformist</p>
<p>One who abides by acceptd rules</p>
<p>329) Congregation</p>
<p>A crowd of people</p>
<p>330) Demagogue</p>
<p>A leader who appeals to emotions</p>
<p>331) Evanescent</p>
<p>Vanishing quickly</p>
<p>332) Extenuate</p>
<p>Mitigating factors</p>
<p>333) Florid</p>
<p>Red coloured, ornate</p>
<p>334) Frugal</p>
<p>Cheap</p>
<p>335) Hackneyed</p>
<p>Clich</p>
<p>VocabKing? Damn, they are asking easy ass words. Im at 20-1</p>
<p>Get SAT Vocabulary for Dummies... I find it helpful and it has a whole section of prefixes and roots!</p>
<p>Many of these were SSAT words.</p>