500 Hard SAT Word List
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500 Hard SAT Word List
1 Overview:
The 500 hard SAT word list is a middle size but difficult vocabulary. They aren't common or daily words in English but occur in academic or serious reading materials from time to time. Because of newly added words year by year, the original 300 words list is over 500 now.
The hard word list is a valuable supplement for students who want to enrich their SAT vocabulary skills, especially to prepare hard words for SAT reading section. The vocabulary is organized into five groups; each word has concise explanations and online practices to help master.
The main target of the difficult word list is to learn and review hard SAT words for the reading section. Besides, to meet some tutors' and ESL students' special requirements, the word list also offers printable flashcards and non-English explanations of multiple languages for each word.
For those who are looking for a larger hard SAT vocabulary, we recommend considering high school spelling words, which have a total of 1500 words and are organized by grades:
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Words of Group 2 (Part of words, select list to view all.):
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Words of Group 2 (Part of words, select list to view all.):
circumscribe
circumspect
circumvent
clairvoyant
clamor
clandestine
counterfeit
covert
credible
credulous
cringe
cryptic
curtail
cynical
decorum
decoy
deference
defoliate
defunct
degradation
deleterious
deliberate
demur
denounce
deplete
deplore
depravity
deprecate
deride
derogatory
desecrate
desist
despondent
deter
deteriorate
detrimental
dexterous
digress
dilemma
diligent
dirge
discern
discord
discrepancy
discriminate
disdain
enfranchise
engender
enhance
enigma
ensconce
ephemeral
epicure
epistle
epistolary
equivocate
erratic
esoteric
espouse
etymology
eulogy
euphemism
evacuate
exacerbate
exceptionable
exculpate
execrable
exegesis
exemplary
exemplify
exhaustive
exorcism
expatriate
expedient
expedite
exposition
extol
extraneous
extrinsic
fallacious
falter
fanatical
fanaticism
fastidious
fatuous
feasible
felicitous
fervor
fickle
finesse
3 Demonstrate word list style:
alleviate 
provide physical relief, as from pain; make easier; remove in part
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anomaly
irregularity; person or something that is unusual; departure from normal or common order
Show examples and contexts arbitrary
randomly chosen; determined by chance or impulse, and not by reason or principle
Show examples and contexts circuitous
being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course; going round in a circuit; not direct
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4 Word meaning matching - Test words you know:
| abrasive |
 | state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes, such as love and hate |
| ceremonial procession or display; succession or series |
| rubbing away; tending to grind down |
| youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers |
| abstain |
| bitter hostility; active hatred; hostile feeling or act |
| introduce; bring up for discussion or debate; announce |
| secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated |
| refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice |
| abstruse |
| bitter hostility; active hatred; hostile feeling or act |
| obscure; profound; difficult to understand. |
| flagrant; conspicuously obvious; loudly offensive |
| comparable; similar or alike |
| affable |
| support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion |
| frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech |
| easily approachable; warmly friendly |
| skillful and adept under pressing conditions |
| ambiguity |
| collect; gather for oneself, as for one's pleasure or profit |
| state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty |
| fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative |
| support physically; prop up; support something or someone by supplying evidence |
| amiable |
| capable of apprehending; knowing; conscious; relating to the faculty of apprehension; sensible; feeling; perceptive |
| good-natured and likable; lovable; warmly friendly |
| surrender; end all resistance; give up; go along with or comply |
| unpleasantly sharp or bitter to taste or smell; bitterly pungent |
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5 Interactive spelling - Check your spelling skill online:
[Esc] fear of heights; abnormal fear of high places
[Esc] extremely hard; inflexible; stubbornly unyielding
[Esc] short account of amusing or interesting event; short narrative; secret story of history or biography
[Esc] lack of caring; indifference
[Esc] randomly chosen; determined by chance or impulse, and not by reason or principle
[Esc] hypocrite, especially, superstitious hypocrite; one who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics
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