College Board Top 100 Common SAT/ACT Vocabulary

1. Abbreviate 2. Abstinence 3. Adulation 4. adversity 5. aesthetic 6. amicable 7. anachronistic 8. anecdote 9. anonymous 10. antagonist 11. arid 12. assiduous 13. asylum 14. benevolent 15. camaraderie 16. censure 17. circuitous 18. clairvoyant 19. collaborate 20. compassion 21. compromise 22. condescending 23. conditional 24. conformist 25. congregation 26. convergence 27. deleterious 28. demagogue 29. digression 30. diligent 31. discredit 32. disdain 33. divergent 34. empathy 35. emulate 36. enervating

College Board Top 100 Common SAT/ACT Vocabulary Words

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Shorten,abridge act of refraing from high praise misfortune pertaining to beauty agreeable out-of-date short account of event nameless opponent extremely dry hard-working sanctuary friendly, helpful trust among friends to criticize harshly indirect, roundabout able to see the future to work together sympathy, mercy to settle differences patronizing provisional, contingent follower of customs crowd of people joining of parts harmful rabble-rousing leader straying from main point hard-working dishonor, disgrace to regard with scorn variant, moving apart sharing of feelings follow an example tiring, weakening

37. enhance 38. ephemeral 39. evanescent 40. exasperation 41. exemplary 42. extenuating 43. florid 44. fortuitous 45. frugal 46. hackneyed 47. haughty 48. hedonist 49. hypothesis 50. impetuous 51. impute 52. incompatible 53. inconsequential 54. inevitable 55. integrity 56. intrepid 57. intuitive 58. jubilation 59. lobbyist 60. longevity 61. mundane 62. nonchalant 63. novice 64. opulent 65. orator 66. ostentatious 67. parched 68. perfidious 69. precocious 70. pretentious 71. procrastinate 72. prosaic

improve, augment momentary, fleeting short-lived, as an image irritation, frustration outstanding guilt diminishing flushed, ornate lucky thrifty overused, cliched arrogant, condescending pleasure seeker theory requiring proof rash, impulsive to attribute to someone unable to work together trivial unavoidable, certain honesty, decency fearless, adventurous instinctive, untaught joy, exultation persuader of legislators long life ordinary, common calm, casual beginner wealthy speaker displaying wealth dried up disloyal talented beyond one's age pompous, self-important to delay unnecessarily run-of-the-mill

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prosperity

74.

provocative

75.

prudent

76.

querulous

77.

rancorous

78.

reclusive

79.

reconciliation

80.

renovation

81.

resilient

82.

restrained

83.

reverence

84.

sagacity

85.

scrutinize

86.

spontaneity

87.

spurious

88.

submissive

89.

substantiate

90.

subtle

91.

superficial

92.

superfluous

93.

suppress

94.

surreptitious

95.

tactful

96.

tenacious

97.

transient

98.

venerable

99.

vindicate

100.

wary

wealth, success inflammatory wise, careful, cautious irritable hateful withdrawn, hermit-like agreement after a quarrel state of being renewed quick to recover controlled, restricted profound respect wisdom to observe carefully impulsive action phony, false meek to verify, confirm elusive, sly, ambiguous lacking in depth more than enough to end an activity secret, stealthy diplomatic, polite persistent, resolute temporary, fleeting respectable due to age to clear from blame watchful, alert

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