500 Hard SAT Word List

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 500 Hard SAT Word List
1   Overview:
The 500 hard SAT word list is a middle size but difficult vocabulary. They aren't common or daily words in English but occur in academic or serious reading materials from time to time. Because of newly added words year by year, the original 300 words list is over 500 now.

The hard word list is a valuable supplement for students who want to enrich their SAT vocabulary skills, especially to prepare hard words for SAT reading section. The vocabulary is organized into five groups; each word has concise explanations and online practices to help master.

The main target of the difficult word list is to learn and review hard SAT words for the reading section. Besides, to meet some tutors' and ESL students' special requirements, the word list also offers printable flashcards and non-English explanations of multiple languages for each word.

For those who are looking for a larger hard SAT vocabulary, we recommend considering high school spelling words, which have a total of 1500 words and are organized by grades:
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Words of Group 2 (Part of words, select list to view all.):
circumscribe
circumspect
circumvent
clairvoyant
clamor
clandestine
counterfeit
covert
credible
credulous
cringe
cryptic
curtail
cynical
decorum
decoy
deference
defoliate
defunct
degradation
deleterious
deliberate
demur
denounce
deplete
deplore
depravity
deprecate
deride
derogatory
desecrate
desist
despondent
deter
deteriorate
detrimental
dexterous
digress
dilemma
diligent
dirge
discern
discord
discrepancy
discriminate
disdain
enfranchise
engender
enhance
enigma
ensconce
ephemeral
epicure
epistle
epistolary
equivocate
erratic
esoteric
espouse
etymology
eulogy
euphemism
evacuate
exacerbate
exceptionable
exculpate
execrable
exegesis
exemplary
exemplify
exhaustive
exorcism
expatriate
expedient
expedite
exposition
extol
extraneous
extrinsic
fallacious
falter
fanatical
fanaticism
fastidious
fatuous
feasible
felicitous
fervor
fickle
finesse
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amity   Speak
friendship; peaceful relations, as between nations
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analgesic   Speak
serving to reduce sensibility to pain without loss of consciousness
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antagonism   Speak
active resistance; condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor
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apathetic   Speak
feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent
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broach   Speak
introduce; bring up for discussion or debate; announce
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candor   Speak
frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
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abstemious  Speak
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state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes, such as love and hate
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sparing or moderation in eating and drinking; temperate
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being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course; going round in a circuit; not direct
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frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
acuity  Speak
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ill humored; irritable; marked by ill-tempered contradiction or opposition; ugly; malicious
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sharpness; acuteness of vision or perception; keenness
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fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative
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obscure; profound; difficult to understand.
adamant  Speak
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fit for growing crops, as by plowing
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frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
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calm; pacify; reduce the intensity of; relieve
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extremely hard; inflexible; stubbornly unyielding
advocate  Speak
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speak, plead, or argue in favour of; plead for; push for something
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append or attach; take possession of; incorporate into an existing political unit
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skillful and adept under pressing conditions
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secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated
ambivalence  Speak
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state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes, such as love and hate
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suffering from a disease; destroyed, ruined, or spoiled
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mean or unfair artifice to obscure truth; deception by trickery or sophistry
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formless; lacking shape or definition
ameliorate  Speak
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ill humored; irritable; marked by ill-tempered contradiction or opposition; ugly; malicious
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sharpness; acuteness of vision or perception; keenness
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easily approachable; warmly friendly
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make or become better; improve; grow better
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act of absolving or the state of being absolved; formal remission of sin imparted by a priest


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assent; agree without protesting


Spelling Word: acquiesce
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easily approachable; warmly friendly


Spelling Word: affable
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apart; remote in manner; distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote


Spelling Word: aloof
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state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes, such as love and hate


Spelling Word: ambivalence
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good-natured and likable; lovable; warmly friendly


Spelling Word: amiable
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