Top 100 SAT Words, part 1

Aberration a state or condition markedly different from the norm

Abstain choose not to consume

Adversity a state of misfortune or affliction

Amicable characterized by friendship and good will

Benevolent showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity

Bias a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

Canny showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

Capacious large in capacity

Collaborate work together on a common enterprise of project

Compassion a deep awareness of and sympathy for another´s suffering

Condescending (behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

Conformist someone who conforms to established standards of conduct

Digression a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

Diligent quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness

Discredit the state of being held in low esteem

Disdain lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

Empathy understanding and entering into another´s feelings

Emulate strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

Enervating causing debilitation

Exemplary worthy of imitation

Fortitude strenght of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage

Fraught filled with or attend with (feeling)

Frugal avoiding waste

Haughty having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

Impetuous characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

Inconsequential lacking worth or importance

Inevitable incapable of being avoided or prevented

Intuitive spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency

Mundane found in the ordinary course of events

Nonchalant marked by blithe unconcern

Ostentatious intended to attract notice and impress others

Pragmatic concerned with practical matters

Pretentious making claim or creating an appearance of importance or distinction

Procrastinate postpone doing what one should be doing

Prosperity the condition of prospering; having good fortune

Provocative serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy

Prudent careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment

Reconciliation the reestablishing of cordial relations

Restrained under restraint

Reverence a feeling of profound respect for someone or something

Scrutinize examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification

Submissive inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination

Substantiate establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

Subtle difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

Superfluous more than needed, desired, or required

Tactful having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others

Tenacious stubbornly unyeilding

Transient lasting a very short time

Vindicate show to be right by providing justification or proof

Wary marked by keen caution and watchful prudence

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