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 4 (Part of words, select list to view all.):
meager
meander
menagerie
noxious
nuance
nullify
obdurate
obfuscate
objective
oblique
obliterate
oblivious
obscure
obsequious
obsession
obsolete
obstreperous
obtuse
obviate
odious
officious
ogle
olfactory
ominous
omnipotent
omniscient
onerous
onus
opaque
ordain
ornate
orthodox
ossify
ostentatious
oust
overt
overwrought
palatable
pallid
palpable
panacea
paradigm
paradox
paragon
paramount
parasite
parched
pariah
parity
parochial
parody
parry
parsimonious
parsimony
partisan
pathos
patron
patronize
placid
plaintiff
plaudit
plausible
plethora
pliable
plumage
plummet
podium
polemical
ponderous
portend
portent
poseur
posterity
posthumous
postulate
potable
potent
pragmatic
pragmatist
preamble
precarious
precedent
precept
precinct
precipice
precipitous
preclude
precocious
predecessor
predicament
preeminent
prerogative
presentiment
presumptuous
pretentious
prevaricate
pristine
proclivity
procrastinate
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allay   Speak
calm; pacify; reduce the intensity of; relieve
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anecdote   Speak
short account of amusing or interesting event; short narrative; secret story of history or biography
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candor   Speak
frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
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celerity   Speak
swiftness of action or motion; speed
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chicanery   Speak
mean or unfair artifice to obscure truth; deception by trickery or sophistry
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choleric   Speak
hot-tempered; easily angered; bad-tempered; expressing anger
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abstain  Speak
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mean or unfair artifice to obscure truth; deception by trickery or sophistry
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grow forth; send out buds; grow or develop rapidly
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abrupt and curt in manner or speech; rudely abrupt, unfriendly
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refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice
acrophobia  Speak
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youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers
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fear of heights; abnormal fear of high places
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swelling out in waves; surging; stormy; affected by storms
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refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice
adamant  Speak
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being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course; going round in a circuit; not direct
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bring peace, quiet, or calm to; satisfy or relieve
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act of claiming for oneself the attributes and rights of God; utterance or writing concerning God or a sacred entity
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extremely hard; inflexible; stubbornly unyielding
adroit  Speak
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middle class; selfishly materialistic; dully conventional
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flagrant; conspicuously obvious; loudly offensive
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skillful and adept under pressing conditions
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feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent
adversity  Speak
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no longer current or applicable; antiquated
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bitter hostility; active hatred; hostile feeling or act
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state of misfortune, hardship, or affliction; misfortune
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fear of heights; abnormal fear of high places
analgesic  Speak
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speak, plead, or argue in favour of; plead for; push for something
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purging or cleansing of any passage of body
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skillful and adept under pressing conditions
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serving to reduce sensibility to pain without loss of consciousness
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act of absolving or the state of being absolved; formal remission of sin imparted by a priest


Spelling Word: absolution
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fear of heights; abnormal fear of high places


Spelling Word: acrophobia
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sharpness; acuteness of vision or perception; keenness


Spelling Word: acuity
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elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste


Spelling Word: aesthetic
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state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty


Spelling Word: ambiguity
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unclear or doubtful in meaning


Spelling Word: ambiguous
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