25 must-know SAT vocabulary words

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Studying for the SAT? Well here’s a comprehensive list of paramount vocabulary to proliferate your SAT erudition. Have fun!

 

Loquacius (adj) – very talkative

Acumen (noun) – shrewdness

Disseminate (verb) – to scatter widely

Perspicacious (adj) – shrewd; clear-sighted

Abstruse (adj) – difficult to understand

Callous (adj) – unfeeling

Reticent (adj) – inclined to keep silent; reserved

Castigate (verb) – to scold, rebuke, or harshly criticize

Conciliatory (adj) – appeasing; soothing

Vituperative (adj) – marked by harshly abusive condemnation

Litigious (adj) – prone to engage in lawsuits

Parity (noun) – equality

Rectitude (adj) – righteousness

Sanctimonious (adj) – feigning piety

Veracity (noun) – truthfulness

Cajole (verb) – to urge with repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery

Obsequious (adj) – fawning and servile

Chicanery (noun) – trickery

Sycophant (noun) – an insincere, obsequious flatterer

Laudatory (adj) – full of praise

Magnanimous (adj) – courageously or generously noble in mind and heart

Stymie (verb) – to thwart or stump

Abase (verb) – to humiliate

Ignominy (noun) – great personal dishonour or humiliation

Flagrant (adj) – extremely shocking or noticeable