350+ Digital SAT Words

abrupt

abrupt

adj. surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; exceedingly sudden and unexpected; extremely steep; marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions

absorbed

adj. taken in through the pores of a surface; retained without reflection; giving or marked by complete attention to

accelerator

noun a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine; a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles; a pedal that controls the throttle valve; (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected

acceptable

adj. worthy of acceptance or satisfactory; adequate for the purpose; judged to be in conformity with approved usage; meeting requirements

accommodate

verb make compatible with; provide with something desired or needed; have room for; hold without crowding; make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; provide a service or favor for someone; provide housing for; be agreeable or acceptable to

accomplishment

noun the action of accomplishing something; an ability that has been acquired by training

acknowledged

adj. recognized or made known or admitted; generally accepted

acquired

adj. gotten through environmental forces

adhere

verb follow through or carry out a plan without deviation; stick to firmly; be a devoted follower or supporter; be compatible or in accordance with; come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; be loyal to

advantageous

adj. giving an advantage; appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness

advocacy

noun active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something

aerial

adj. growing in air; in or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air; characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; noun a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer; an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals

aesthetic

adj. concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste; aesthetically pleasing; relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics; noun (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful

aggravate

verb make worse; exasperate or irritate

alleviate

verb provide physical relief, as from pain; make easier

ambivalence

noun mixed feelings or emotions

annotate

verb add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases

anon

adv. (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while; at another time; noun sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds

anticipating

looking forward or expecting

appropriate

adj. suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc; suitable and fitting; meant or adapted for an occasion or use; being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness; verb take possession of by force, as after an invasion; give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause

approximate

adj. located close together; very close in resemblance; not quite exact or correct; verb be close or similar; judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)

acquisition

noun the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; something acquired; an ability that has been acquired by training; the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

argue

verb present reasons and arguments; give evidence of; have an argument about something

attribute

noun an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity; a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; verb attribute or credit to; decide as to where something belongs in a scheme

authenticity

noun undisputed credibility

beneficial

adj. promoting or enhancing well-being; tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health

beneficiary

adj. having or arising from a benefice; noun the recipient of funds or other benefits; the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

benign

adj. pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; kindness of disposition or manner; not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)

binary

adj. consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) or based on two; of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base; noun a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation

bureaucratic

adj. of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy

buttress

noun a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building; verb make stronger or defensible; reinforce with a buttress

bystander

noun a nonparticipant spectator

careful

adj. exercising caution or showing care or attention; with care and dignity; mindful of the future in spending money; cautiously attentive; full of cares or anxiety

catastrophic

adj. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin

challenged

to object to a decision or outcome

characteristic

adj. typical or distinctive; noun a distinguishing quality; any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions; the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2; a prominent aspect of something

circumvent

verb avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); beat through cleverness and wit; surround so as to force to give up

civilian

adj. associated with or performed by civilians as contrasted with the military; noun a nonmilitary citizen

coincide

verb be the same; go with, fall together; happen simultaneously

collaborate

verb work together on a common enterprise of project; cooperate as a traitor

collected

adj. in full control of your faculties; brought together in one place; brought together into a group or crowd

commissioned

adj. (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above; given official approval to act

committed

adj. bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude; associated in an exclusive sexual relationship

common

adj. having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; commonly encountered; being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; of or associated with the great masses of people; to be expected; standard; common to or shared by two or more parties; lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; of low or inferior quality or value; noun a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

comparable

adj. able to be compared or worthy of comparison; conforming in every respect

compelling

adj. tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument; driving or forcing

complementary

adj. of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole); noun either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)

compose

verb put together out of existing material; write music; calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet; form the substance of; make up plans or basic details for; produce a literary work

comprises

consists of, is composed of, includes

concealed

adj. hidden on any grounds for any motive; not accessible to view

concede

verb be willing to concede; admit, make a clean breast of; acknowledge defeat; give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

conceptualize

verb have the idea for

concern

noun something that interests you because it is important or affects you; something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; a feeling of sympathy for someone or something; an anxious feeling; a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; verb be on the mind of; have to do with or be relevant to

about

adj. on the move; adv. in the area or vicinity; all around or on all sides; in or to a reversed position or direction; to or among many different places or in no particular direction; (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; in rotation or succession; (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

concerning

regarding

conditions

circumstances affecting the way people live or work

confident

adj. not liable to error in judgment or action; having or marked by confidence or assurance; persuaded of; very sure

confined

adj. not free to move about; not invading healthy tissue; enclosed by a confining fence; deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint; in captivity

conflicted

confused; undecided; having feelings that clash or conflict

conform

verb be similar, be in line with; adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions

conjecture

noun reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence; a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence; verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

consistent

adj. (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable; the same throughout in structure or composition; marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; capable of being reproduced

contemporary

adj. belonging to the present time; characteristic of the present; occurring in the same period of time; noun a person of nearly the same age as another

contrive

verb come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; put or send forth; make or work out a plan for; devise

controversial

adj. marked by or capable of arousing controversy

convey

verb make known; pass on, of information; transmit a title or property; transfer to another; serve as a means for expressing something; go or come after and bring or take back; take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

corollary

noun (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition; a practical consequence that follows naturally

counterintuitive

adj. contrary to what common sense would suggest

credited

adj. (usually followed by `to') given credit for

critical

adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency; at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction; forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; urgently needed; absolutely necessary; of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism

decentralized

adj. withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities

deceptive

adj. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

deciding

adj. having the power or quality of deciding; noun the cognitive process of reaching a decision

decisive

adj. determining or having the power to determine an outcome; characterized by decision and firmness; unmistakable; forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis

defends

speak or write in favor of (an action or person); attempt to justify.

delegate

noun a person appointed or elected to represent others; verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person); transfer power to someone

delve

verb turn up, loosen, or remove earth

demands

wants backed by buying power

demonstrative

adj. given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; serving to demonstrate; noun a pronoun that points out an intended referent

denied

to hold back and refuse something

derived

adj. formed or developed from something else; not original

deviates

depart from an established course

dignity

noun the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect; formality in bearing and appearance; high office or rank or station

discernible

adj. perceptible by the senses or intellect; capable of being seen or noticed; capable of being perceived clearly

disconcerting

adj. causing an emotional disturbance

discourage

verb deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged; admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; try to prevent; show opposition to

disengage

verb become free; release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles; free or remove obstruction from

disorienting

adj. causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings

disparate

adj. including markedly dissimilar elements; fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind

dispute

noun coming into conflict with; a disagreement or argument about something important; verb have a disagreement over something; take exception to

distraction

noun the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something; mental turmoil; an obstacle to attention; an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations

ditty

noun a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung)

diverge

verb move or draw apart; extend in a different direction; have no limits as a mathematical series; be at variance with; be out of line with

diversification

noun the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered); the condition of being varied

dormant

adj. inactive but capable of becoming active; of e.g. volcanos; not erupting and not extinct; in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

doth

does/do

doubts

questions, uncertainties

drafting

noun the craft of drawing blueprints; writing a first version to be filled out and polished later; the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams

dulcet

adj. pleasing to the ear; extremely pleasant in a gentle way

dynamic

adj. characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality; of or relating to dynamics; expressing action rather than a state of being; used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water'); noun an efficient incentive