(1-50) Barron's Ultimate SAT Study Guide: 250 Words Important to the SAT Reading

Abject

Used to describe negative things and heighten the negativity.

Abode

A place where people live.

Abstract

It isn’t concrete or tangible.

Accentuate

To emphasize that something is important.

Acknowledge

To notice it and make sure it knows that it has been noticed.

Admonition

The scolding you might receive if you have done something wrong.

Affluent

To be affluent is to be very well off financially.

Agitate

To work up or disturb.

Aggrandize

To make it grander.

Aggregate

Noun - talk about the whole, not the parts

Verb - to build up the parts to create a whole

Ambiguous

More that one possible interpretation.

Amicable

To get along with other people.

Analogous

Two things that are comparable.

Anomaly

Something strange or out of the usual pattern of things.

Antipathy

A very negative feeling toward another person or thing.

Apparition

Something that suddenly appears.

Arbitrary

Random

Ascertain

To find something out or confirm it.

Aspire

Working toward a lofty goal.

Autocratic

Someone in charge who has all the power.

Beget

To take steps to bring that something into existence OR an action that leads to something.

Benevolent

To be kind.

Bestow

To give it to someone.

Calibrate

To adjust it so that it runs the way it should.

Calisthenics

A type of exercise that rely on body weight.

Celestial

Has to do with outer space.

Censure

To give someone a formal reprimand.

Circulation

Thought of in relation to blood moving through the body OR referring to anything moving back and forth or around in a predictable pattern.

Coerce

To get someone to do something by threat of force.

Cognition

The ability to understand something.

Colloquial

Describes language.

Commercial

The buying and selling of goods.

Complementary

Something that goes well with the thing around it.

Complimentary

Something that is provided free of charge OR a nice thing to say about someone (a compliment).

Conflate

To keep two things separate and to not assume that they are the same idea.

Conjecture

To hypothesize based on limited evidence.

Conjure

To bring something up.

Consensus

When everyone agrees

Consequence

The results of an action taken

Conservator

A person whose job it is to conserve or preserve something.

Constitution

Governmental OR Someone’s bodily health OR how something is put together.

Contingent

Relies on other factors to come to be.

Conventional

Follows the traditional rules that are set up.

Convey

To get something across.

Convoke

To call a meeting.

Convulsion

A physical movement.

Cultivate

To bring something up OR to try to make it grow/exist.

Dawdle

To lag behind.

Decipher

To figure something out.

Degrade

To break something down slowly over time.