500 Hard SAT Word List
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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.):
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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
3 Demonstrate word list style:
antagonism 
active resistance; condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor
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bigot
hypocrite, especially, superstitious hypocrite; one who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics
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4 Word meaning matching - Test words you know:
| acquiesce |
 | assent; agree without protesting |
| introduce; bring up for discussion or debate; announce |
| swiftness of action or motion; speed |
| unpleasantly sharp or bitter to taste or smell; bitterly pungent |
| adversity |
| fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative |
| support physically; prop up; support something or someone by supplying evidence |
| refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice |
| state of misfortune, hardship, or affliction; misfortune |
| amity |
| elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste |
| state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty |
| swelling out in waves; surging; stormy; affected by storms |
| friendship; peaceful relations, as between nations |
| amorphous |
| gay; joyous; carefree and lighthearted |
| formless; lacking shape or definition |
| assent; agree without protesting |
| swelling out in waves; surging; stormy; affected by storms |
| anecdote |
| gay; joyous; carefree and lighthearted |
| short account of amusing or interesting event; short narrative; secret story of history or biography |
| unpleasantly sharp or bitter to taste or smell; bitterly pungent |
| rubbing away; tending to grind down |
| antiquated |
| skillful and adept under pressing conditions |
| too old to be fashionable, suitable, or useful; obsolete; aged |
| over-regulated administrative system |
| support physically; prop up; support something or someone by supplying evidence |
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5 Interactive spelling - Check your spelling skill online:
[Esc] refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice
[Esc] sharpness; acuteness of vision or perception; keenness
[Esc] extremely hard; inflexible; stubbornly unyielding
[Esc] skillful and adept under pressing conditions
[Esc] speak, plead, or argue in favour of; plead for; push for something
[Esc] calm; pacify; reduce the intensity of; relieve
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