Every word in this set comes from Barron's "Picture these SAT Words". The words in the book were selected from Barron's High-Frequency and Hot Prospects word list so you won't waste your time learning words that won't show up on the SAT. Thus, you will learn only the most important SAT Words-the ones you need to know to do well on the SAT.
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| 790824810 | abstemious | eating and drinking in moderation; restricted to bare necessities | |
| 790824811 | altruistic | unselfishly generous; concerned for others | |
| 790824812 | antagonism | actively expressed hostility | |
| 790824813 | antidote | medicine to counteract a poison or disease; something that relieves a harmful effect | |
| 790824814 | apathy | indifferent | |
| 790824815 | appease | soothe; relieve | |
| 790824816 | aspire | seek to attain; long for | |
| 790824817 | assuage | ease or lessen; satisfy; soothe; alleviate | |
| 790824818 | audacious | daring; bold | |
| 790824819 | compile | assemble; gather; accumulate | |
| 790824820 | conflagration | great fire | |
| 790824821 | cursory | done with haste and little attention to detail | |
| 790824822 | deride | ridicule; make fun of | |
| 790824823 | derivative | unoriginal; derived from another source | |
| 790824824 | digression | wandering away from the subject | |
| 790824825 | discriminating | able to see differences | |
| 790824826 | elated | overjoyed; in high spirits | |
| 790824827 | equivocal | unclear in meaning; intentionally misleading | |
| 790824828 | hardy | strong | |
| 790824829 | ignominy | deep disgrace; shame or dishonor | |
| 790824830 | incongruous | not fitting; absurd | |
| 790824831 | jocular | said or done in jest | |
| 790824832 | linger | loiter or dawdle; continue or persist | |
| 790824833 | listless | lacking in spirit or energy | |
| 790824834 | mosaic | picture made of colorful small inlaid tiles; something that resembles a mosaic | |
| 790824835 | orator | public speaker | |
| 790824836 | peripheral | outer; marginal | |
| 790824837 | pithy | concise; meaningful; substantial; meaty | |
| 790824838 | profusion | overabundance; excess | |
| 790824839 | innocuous | unlikely to harm or disturb anyone | |
| 790824840 | raucous | unpleasantly loud and harsh | |
| 790824841 | ravenous | devouring or craving food in great quantities | |
| 790824842 | redundant | repetition of same sense in different words | |
| 790824843 | saturate | to soak thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully | |
| 790824844 | scrupulous | characterized by extreme care and great effort | |
| 790824845 | soporific | sleep inducing | |
| 790824846 | stolid | having or revealing little emotion or sensibility | |
| 790824847 | strident | unpleasantly loud and harsh | |
| 790824848 | surfeit | eating until excessively full | |
| 790824849 | surreptitious | conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | |
| 790824850 | tantamount | equivalent in value or significance | |
| 790824851 | tenacity | persistent determination | |
| 790824852 | tirade | a long, angry speech, usually very critical | |
| 790824853 | trifling | not worth considering | |
| 790824854 | truncate | make shorter as if by cutting off | |
| 790824855 | uniformity | a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying | |
| 790824856 | vaporize | turn into gas | |
| 790824857 | vituoso | masterly skilled in a particular field | |
| 790824858 | virulent | extremely poisonous or injurious | |
| 790824859 | zealot | someone passionately devoted to a cause |
