SAT/ACT Word List
Review the SAT/ACT vocabulary words that have appeared in Choices this year.
- abnormal:
not normal, average, standard, or usual; deviating from a standard (Jan. 2011) - absorb:
to soak up or drink in (Feb/Mar. 2011) - accessible:
approachable (Sept. 2010) - accompany:
to go with, or be associated with, as a companion (Nov/Dec. 2010) - accommodation:
a suitable adaptation or adjustment for convenience (Apr/May 2011) - acumen:
keen insight; shrewdness (Nov/Dec. 2010) - adverse:
opposed to one's interests; harmful (Oct. 2010) - advocate:
to be in favor of something (Oct. 2010) - agitate:
to excite, disturb, or trouble; worry (Feb/Mar. 2011) - ailment:
a sickness (Sept. 2010) - alter:
to make a change (Oct. 2010) - anxious:
full of mental distress or uneasiness because of fear of danger or misfortune (Apr/May 2011) - assertive:
confident in stating your opinion or claim (Sept. 2010) - asset:
a useful and desirable thing or quality (Feb/Mar. 2011) - beneficial:
helpful (Sept. 2010) - brittle:
fragile (Nov/Dec. 2010) - characteristic:
a distinguishing feature or quality (Feb/Mar. 2011) - complex:
composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite (Feb/Mar. 2011) - component:
a constituent element or part (Nov/Dec. 2010) - compunction:
feelings of shame and regret about having done something wrong (Sept. 2010) - courteous:
having or showing good manners; polite (Feb/Mar. 2011) - craving:
an intense desire for something (Sept. 2010) - culprit:
a guilty person (Nov/Dec. 2010) - delirious:
being in a state of excitement (Oct. 2010) - depression:
sadness, gloom, dejection (Nov/Dec. 2010) - deteriorate:
to grow worse (Feb/Mar. 2011) - diagnose:
to determine the identity of a disease by medical examination (Jan. 2011) - differentiate:
to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish (Feb/Mar. 2011) - discrimination:
the act of favoring or disfavoring on a basis other than individual merit (Oct. 2010) - discipline:
obedience training (Oct. 2010) - diverse:
differing from one another (Apr/May 2011) - earnest:
serious in intention, purpose, or effort (Nov/Dec. 2010) - emaciated:
marked by an abnormal thinness caused by inadequate nutrition or by disease (Apr/May 2011) - encouragement:
inspiration with courage, hope, or strength of mind (Feb/Mar. 2011) - energetic:
possessing or exhibiting energy (Nov/Dec. 2010) - enervate:
to lessen the vitality or strength of (Jan. 2011) - enhance:
to increase or improve in value (Sept. 2010) - eradicate:
to destroy thoroughly (Nov/Dec. 2010) - evolve:
to develop gradually (Nov/Dec. 2010) - exasperate:
to irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy to an extreme (Jan. 2011) - excess:
that which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience (Sept. 2010) - excruciating:
causing mental or physical anguish; greatly irritating (Nov/Dec. 2010) - formidable:
difficult to accomplish (Jan. 2011) - happy-go-lucky:
happily unworried or unconcerned (Feb/Mar. 2011) - illicit:
not permitted; unlawful (Oct. 2010) - immune:
exempt, as from disease (Oct. 2010) - impair:
to cause to become less or worse (Sept. 2010) - improper:
not appropriate, suitable, or becoming (Sept. 2010) - incentive:
motivation to take action (Oct. 2010) - inebriated:
intoxicated; drunk (Sept. 2010) - ingredient:
something that enters as an element into a mixture (Feb/Mar. 2011) - innocuous:
harmless (Apr/May 2011) - inseparable:
incapable of being separated (Oct. 2010) - irreversible:
not reversible; incapable of being changed (Nov/Dec. 2010) - interact:
act together, toward, or with others (Sept. 2010) - interrupt:
to stop while in progress - laxative:
a medicine or agent for relieving constipation (Nov/Dec. 2010) - misunderstanding:
a failure to understand or interpret someone's words or
behavior correctly (Jan. 2011) - nausea:
a feeling of sickness in the stomach especially when accompanied by a distaste for food and an impulse to vomit (Jan. 2011) - obesity:
the state of being excessively overweight (Nov/Dec. 2010) - passive:
tending not to participate actively (Sept. 2010) - perspective:
the relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view (Feb/Mar. 2011) - perturbed:
greatly disturbed (Sept. 2010) - pleasurable:
enjoyable (Sept. 2010) - potent:
very strong; powerful (Oct. 2010) - predisposition:
a likeliness toward something, often a disease, arising from a hereditary factor; tendency (Oct. 2010) - preferable:
more desirable (Jan. 2011) - prejudice:
a negative opinion formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge is obtained (Oct. 2010) - probation:
a method of dealing with offenders of the law, especially young people guilty of less serious crimes or first offenses, that allows them to avoid jail but be under supervision of a probation officer (Jan. 2011) - proceed:
to carry on or continue any action or process (Jan. 2011) - rapid:
occurring within a short time; happening speedily (Feb/Mar. 2011) - relentlessly:
showing no signs of stopping or lessening in intensity; persistently (Sept. 2010) - skepticism:
an attitude of doubt toward something (Oct. 2010) - simultaneously:
existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrently (Apr/May 2011) - sociable:
inclined to seek company (Sept. 2010) - soluble:
capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid (Apr/May 2011) - spectrum:
a continuous series or sequence of related ideas or objects (Jan. 2011) - squabble:
to argue (Oct. 2010) - stimulate:
to excite to activity (Sept. 2010) - succinct:
expressed in few words; concise; terse (Jan. 2011) - suspicious:
inclined to doubt or mistrust (Sept. 2010) - taut:
not loose or flabby (Oct. 2010) - temporary:
lasting for a short time only (Jan. 2011) - tolerance:
sympathy for or indulgence of beliefs or practices different from or conflicting with one's own (Oct. 2010) - treacherous:
dangerous; hazardous (Jan. 2011) - typical:
serving as a type or representative specimen (Jan. 2011) - unique:
being the only one of its kind (Nov/Dec. 2010) - vehement:
zealous, ardent, impassioned (Nov/Dec. 2010) - visualize:
to see or form a mental image of (Oct. 2010)
