DSAT High Frequency Vocab Words (updated 8/2025)

Accentuate

to emphasize

Acclaim

to praise

Adept

skilled, proficient (very good at)

Adverse

unfavorable, bad

Affecting

stimulating

Akin

similar or comparable

Amass

to accumulate, to gather

Amorphous

without a clear form

Amplify

increase in size or effect

Annotate

to add notes or comments

Anticipating

expecting

Appraise

assess the value of

Arcane

hidden, mysterious

Array

range or collection

Assuage

relieve, make better

Augment

to increase

Banal

ordinary, common, boring

Bearing

relevance

Benevolent

kind or helpful

Biased

prejudiced, favoring one side

Championed

supported, advocated

Circumvent

to go around, avoid

Coherent

understandable

Collaborates

work together

Collaboration

cooperation, teamwork

Comprehensive

complete, all inclusive

Concede

admit something is true, surrender or yield

Confounding

causing confusion or surprise

Consensus

agreement

Conspicuous

obvious, noticeable

Conventional

ordinary, usual, or traditional

Convey

show, reveal

Corollary

analogous

Correlate

establishing a connection

Correspond

agree with, be consistent with

Corroborate

support

Counteract

to cancel out

Cynical

doubtful, unbelieving

Defunct

obsolete

Deliberation

serious thought, discussion

Denigrate

disparage, criticize

Designate

to label, to appoint

Desultory

random

Discount

ignore, disregard

Discrepancy

difference, disagreement

Disingenuous

dishonest

Disparage

criticize

Disseminate

to spread out, scatter

Dogmatic

stubborn

Eccentric

weird or unusual

Eclipse

to surpass

Empirical

experimental, observable

Enduring

lasting, continuing

Engender

create, cause

Enlivened

active

Epoch

time period

Erratic

unpredictable, uncontrolled

Erratically

unpredictably

Evince

to give evidence of

Exemplar

an ideal model or example

Exploit

to take advantage of (negative/positive)

Extensive

comprehensive, considerable

Extraneous

unnecessary, irrelevant

Extrapolating

draw conclusion from small sample

Harbinger

a prediction, a sign

Homogenous

identical, similar

Idealistic

aiming for perfection

Implement

to use, to start

Implicit

naturally understood, inherent

Imply

to hint

Inadvertently

accidentally

Inconsequential

unimportant

Incremental

additive, cumulative

Indigenous

native

Indisputable

undeniable

Indistinct

obscure, unclear

Ineluctable

unavoidable

Ingenious

clever, brilliant

Inherently

naturally

Innovative

unconventional or different

Insuperable

impossible, unbeatable

Insurmountable

too big to be overcome

Intermittent

irregular, sporadic

Intricate

complex

Irreproachable

blameless

Lauded

praised

Litany

catalogue, account, or collection

Lobbying

the act of influencing an issue

Magnify

enlarge, intensify

Meager

small or inadequate

Medium

intermediary between things

Melancholy

sadness

Meticulous

detailed, precise

Misanthropic

unfriendly, cynical, doubting

Misconstrue

distort, falsify

Mitigated

alleviated, reduced

Monetize

to make money from

Myopic

short sighted

Nebulous

without form, unclear

Notional

theoretical