SAT Vocabulary Chapter 3

SAT Must Know Vocabulary

• Artful: cunning; sly
• Articulate: to speak distinctly; to express clearly
• Artificial: not natural
• Ascertain: to determine with certainty
• Ascetic: a person who abstains from all physical comfort

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• Assail: to attack
• Assertive: inclined to bold; aggressively self-assured
• Assess: to judge the quality of something
• Assign: to give a task to someone
• Assimilate: to become similar

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• Assure: to state positively; to make certain
• Astonish: to surprise greatly
• Astound: to amaze or shock
• Astute: sharp; shrewd
• Asylum: a refugee; a place of safety

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• Attachment: association; a place of safety
• Attenuate: to make thin and weak
• Attitude: a way of thinking; a hostile manner
• Audacious: bold and daring; disrespectful; impudent; careless
• Augment: to increase; to make greater

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• Aural: of sound
• Auspicious: promising future success; favorable
• Austere: severely simple and plain; severe in self-discipline
• Authentic: genuine; reliable
• Automation: the use of automatic machinery

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• Autonomous: self-governing; independent of others
• Avant-garde: innovative
• Averse: reluctant about something
• Avert: to turn away; to prevent
• Aviary: a large enclosed area where birds are kept

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• Awareness: the fact of being conscious
• Baleful: evil; harmful
• Ban: to forbid something
• Banal: boring; dull; ordinary, unimaginative
• Baneful: harmful

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• Bargain: to discuss the terms for buying or selling
• Barren: not producing results; unresponsive
• Barrier: a fence
• Belie: to contradict; to show something to be untrue
• Belittle: to treat something as unimportant

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• Bemuse: to puzzle or confuse someone
• Beneficial: advantageous
• Beneficiary: a person who receives property
• Benefit: something good gained; advantage
• Bent: not straight; dishonest

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• Bereave: to deprive
• Betray: to be unfaithful; to show
• Bewilder: to confuse thoroughly
• Bias: a prejudice
• Bigot: someone who is persistently prejudiced

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• Bilious: ill-tempered; nauseated
• Bipartisanship: involvement of two groups
• Bison: a large, hoofed mammal
• Bitterness: a sharp, unpleasant taste; acrimony
• Bizarre: weirdly odd or strange

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• Blare: to sound loudly and harshly
• Blast: to blow up with explosives
• Blatant: very obvious and without shame
• Blend: to mix
• Blight: to harm or destroy

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• Blithe: carefree; without seriousness
• Blunder: a foolish, usually serious mistake
• Blunt: having no point or sharp edge
• Bog: a flat area of wet spongy poorly drained land
• Bombastic: pretentious or boastful

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• Boor: an insensitive, rude person
• Boycott: to refuse to have any business
• Brandish: to wave a weapon as a threat
• Brash: very loud or showy; impudent
• Bravado: a display of confidence boastfully

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• Bristle: to show obvious anger or rage
• Broke: bankrupt
• Brusque: blunt and often impolite; curt
• Bucolic: countrylike; pastoral; rustic
• Buoyant: able to float; cheerful; resilient

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• Burgeon: to grow quickly; to flourish
• Buttress: to support or encourage
• Bypass: to avoid by taking a route which goes round
• Bystander: an onlooker
• Cadence: rhythm; the rise and fall of sounds

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• Cajole: to persuade someone using flattery
• Callous: hardened; emotionally cold
• Camaraderie: a cheerful support for one another within a group
• Camouflage: to disguise or conceal
• Candid: honest; fair and impartial; natural

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• Cantankerous: bad-tempered; irritable
• Capricious: subject to sudden changes in behavior
• Captivate: to charm or fascinate
• Career: one’s professional life
• Carouse: to take part in a noisy drinking party

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• Carpet: to cover; to reprimand or scold
• Carp: to complain repeatedly
• Cartographer: a maker of maps
• Cataclysm: an event causing tremendous change
• Catastrophic: disastrous

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• Cathartic: cleansing; purgative
• Caustic: corrosive; bitter
• Cavalcade: a parade
• Buoyant: able to float; cheerful; resilient

Note: Please review the entire list of 50 vocabulary words and their meanings to better understand the context of the SAT Must Know Vocabulary.

Test your knowledge of essential SAT vocabulary with this quiz, covering words such as artful, articulate, and ascetic. Improve your vocabulary skills and prepare for the SAT exam.