50 Difficult SAT Words for Your SAT Preparation

Another list of 50 difficult words for your SAT preparation:

1. Redoubtable: inspiring fear
2. Relegate: assign to a lower position
3. Remiss: failing in what duty requires
4. Reprieve: postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal
5. Reprobate: a person without moral scruples
6. Rescind: cancel officially
7. Requisition: an authoritative demand
8. Rife: excessively abundant
9. Sanctimonious: excessively or hypocritically pious
10. Sanguine: confidently optimistic and cheerful
11. Scurrilous: expressing offensive, insulting, or scandalous criticism
12. Semaphore: an apparatus for visual signalling
13. Serendipity: good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
14. Sobriety: the state of being unaffected or not intoxicated by alcohol
15. Solicitous: full of anxiety and concern
16. Solipsism: the philosophical theory that the self is all that exists
17. Spurious: plausible but false
18. Staid: characterised by dignity and propriety
19. Stolid: having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
20. Subjugate: make subservient; force to submit or subdue
21. Surfeit: indulge (one’s appetite) to satiety
22. Surreptitious: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
23. Swarthy: naturally having the skin of a dark colour
24. Tangential: of superficial relevance, if any
25. Tirade: a speech of violent denunciation
26. Tome: a large and scholarly book
27. Toady: a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
28. Torpid: in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
29. Travesty: a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
30. Trenchant: having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought
31. Trite: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
32. Truculent: defiantly aggressive
33. Turpitude: a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
34. Ubiquitous: being present everywhere at once
35. Umbrage: a feeling of anger caused by being offended
36. Upbraid: express criticism towards
37. Utilitarian: having a useful function
38. Veracity: unwillingness to tell lies
39. Vestige: an indication that something has been present
40. Vicissitude: a variation in circumstances or fortune
41. Vilify: spread negative information about
42. Virtuoso: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
43. Vitriolic: harsh, bitter, or malicious in tone
44. Vituperate: spread negative information about
45. Vociferous: conspicuously and offensively loud
46. Wanton: a lewd or immoral person
47. Wily: marked by skill in deception
48. Winsome: charming in a childlike or naive way
49. Yoke: join with stable gear, as two draft animals
50. Zephyr: a slight wind

The Scholastic Assessment Test, commonly known as the SAT, is a critical step for students aspiring to study in the United States. Administered by the College Board, this standardized test evaluates a student’s readiness for college. A significant portion of the SAT assesses reading and writing skills, making a robust vocabulary essential for success.

In this article, we delve into the challenges of SAT vocabulary and provide valuable resources and tips to help you excel in this aspect of the exam.