Barron’s SAT vocabulary flash cards (500)

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Abate

Grow less in intensity or degree

Abridge

Reduce (a text) in length

Abstemious

Sparing in eating and drinking

Abstract

Not concrete

Abstruse

Difficult to understand

Accessible

Able to be reached

Acclaim

Announce with great approval

Accolade

Expression of approval

Acknowledge

Recognize, possibly reluctantly, the status or rights of

Acquiesce

Agree without protesting

Acrid

Sharply bitter in taste or odor

Acrimonious

Bitter in words or manner

Adherent

Someone who follows a leader or supports a cause

Adroit

Having skill or resourcefulness in coping with situations

Adulation

Excessive admiration

Adversary

One who resists or opposes

Adversity

Force negatively affecting one's well-being

Advocate

Speak in favor of

Aesthetic

Dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful

Affable

Easy to talk to; warmly friendly

Affirmation

Positive statement

Alacrity

Cheerful readiness to respond

Alleviate

Make more bearable

Allusion

Indirect or hinted reference

Aloof

Emotionally or physically distant

Altruistic

Unselfishly concerned for the well-being of others

Ambigious

Having several possible meaning, and therefore unclear

Ambivalence

State of having conflicting emotional attitudes

Amorphous

Lacking shape or definition

Anachronism

Something out of place chronologically, not in its proper historical period

Analogous

Showing a likeness or similarity

Anarchy

Political and social disorder; state of being without a governing body or leader

Anecdote

Short account of a supposedly interesting or amusing incident

Animosity

Active ill will

Anomaly

Something not easily classified or that deviates from the norm

Antagonism

Active resistance

Antipathy

Deep-seated dislike

Apathy

Lack of concern, especially about things that others find important

Appease

Cause to grow calm or subside

Apprehension

Fear of future evil

Appropriate

Take possession of for one's own use (possibly without the authority or right to do so)

Arbitrary

Determined by impulse or whim; capricious

Archaic

Characteristic of an earlier or more primitive time

Ardent

Characterized by intensity of feeling

Articulate

Expressing oneself clearly

Ascendancy

Position of dominance; controlling influence

Ascetic

Practicing self-denial

Assiduous

Characterized by careful, persistent attention (to a task)

Assuage

Lessen in intensity, or put an end to

Assumption

Something taken for granted; act of taking possession

Astute

Characterized by shrewdness and clear-sightedness

Atrophy

Waste away

Attribute

Explain by pointing out a cause

Augment

Make larger or more numerous

Austere

Forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented

Autonomous

Not controlled or governed by outside forces

Banal

Lacking originality

Bane

Source of harm or ruin

Belie

Give a false impression

Belittle

To cause someone or something to seem less

Benevolent

Disposed to do good

Benign

Gentle in disposition; not malignant

Bleak

Barren and lacking in warmth

Bolster

Support or prop up

Brevity

Shortness of expression

Buttress

Shore up using an external support

Cacophonous

Marked by harsh or discordant sound

Cajole

Persuade in the face of reluctance

Calculated

Deliberately planned (to achieve a goal, accomplish a purpose)

Candor

Open honesty

Capitulate

Give up resisting

Capricious

Impulsive and unpredictable

Captivate

Attract and keep someone's interest

Catalyst

Something that causes an event or change to occur

Censorious

Highly critical

Censure

Harshly criticize

Cliché

Phrase dulled in meaning by repetition; trite theme; person who acts in wholly predictable ways

Coercion

Use of force to compel someone to obey; threat of violence or reprisal

Cogent

Strongly appealing to reason; well argued

Coherence

Logical consistency; quality of sticking together

Cohesion

Tendency to keep together

Collaborate

Work together

Colloquial

Pertaining to conversational or common speech

Commemorate

Honor the memory of

Compile

Gather or put together

Complacency

Satisfaction with one's person, possessions, or accomplishments

Complement

Make something complete or perfect

Complaince

Conformity in fulfilling requirements; readiness to yield

Composure

Mental calmness

Comprehensive

Completely covering (a field or subject)

Concede

Acknowledge something to be true; grant as a privilege

Conciliatory

Gaining goodwill by acting in a pleasing manner

Concise

Covering a great deal in a few words

Concur

Express agreement with an opinion; happen together

Condone

Treat as if harmless or unimportant

Conflagration

Great fire

Confound

Throw into confusion or bewilder

Conjecture

Deduce by guessing

Consensus

Agreement arrived at by a group as a whole

Constraint

Embarrassed awkwardness; repression of feelings