(51-100) Barron's Ultimate SAT Study Guide: 250 Words Important to the SAT Reading

Demarcation

To divide areas into clear boundaries.

Demur

To politely say no to something/ avoid something.

Desolation

Total abandonment. emptiness, and destruction.

Despoil

The act of taking away anything of value.

Desultory

Something that lacks consistency or order.

Deter

To stop someone from doing something.

Discretion

Someone with good judgement and avoids revealing secrets.

Disenfranchise

To take away someone’s right to vote/precent them from using it.

Disparity

An inequality or a difference between two things.

Disseminate

To pass out or to ensure the spread of something.

Dissimilar

Things that are not the same (not similar).

Diverge

When two things move apart.

Doctrine

A sincerely held belief.

Doldrums

To describe a time in which nothing happens.

Domestic

Something related to the home.

Dominion

Control or authority over someone or something.

Dubious

To be doubtful and uncertain.

Earnest

To be serious.

Eddy

When water or air moves swiftly in a circular motion.

Effectual

The desired result has been achieved through that action.

Efficacy

How effective something is.

Embellish

To add details/flair to something (verbally or physically).

Emit

To give off.

Empathize

You feel what someone else is feeling.

Endearing

To create warm feelings toward oneself.

Endeavor

Noun - a try

Verb - to try something

Endow

To give (like a donation).

Enterprise

To set out to do something.

Entice

To convince someone to do something through the promise of reward.

Entrenched

To be dug in/to refuse to move (especially in thoughts and ideas).

Ephemeral

Very short-lived.

Evince

To show one’s feelings.

Expenditure

A spending of money or other resources.

Explanatory

When something explains something.

Extensive

Something that is widespread/far-reaching.

Feeble

To be weak.

Fetter

To hold someone or something back.

Finite

Has a definitive beginning and ending (opposite of infinite).

Fiscal

Money and the economy.

Florid

A person’s face as red/flushed.

Former

The one before or in the past.

Forum

A location or a meeting where people can talk about their thoughts, idea, and opinions.

Frantic

An urgency to do all you can as you try to solve the problem (desperate).

Frequent

Often.

Fundamental

Basics.

Germinate

To take something with potential and make it start to grow.

Glom

To attach to something.

Glut

A ridiculous abundance of something.

Grievance

A complaint.

Ignominious

Something that is undignified.