SAT High frequency list
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- abberrant
- abnormal or deviant
- abstemious
- sparing in eating and drinking
- accolade
- award of merit
- acquiesce
- agree without protesting
- acrimonious
- bitter in words or manner
- adherent
- supporter, follower
- adversary
- opponent
- aesthetic
- artistic, dealing with or capable of appreciation of the beautiful
- affable
- easily approachable
- affinity
- natural liking
- altruistic
- unselfishly generous
- ambivialence
- having contradictory attitudes
- ameliorate
- improve
- anarchist
- person who seeks to overturn the government
- animosity
- bitter hostility, active hatred
- antiquated
- old fashioned
- obsolete
- no longer in use
- apathy
- lack of caring
- apocryphal
- untrue, made up
- arable
- fit for growing crops
- arbitrary
- unreasonable
- capricious
- fickle
- ardor
- heat, passion
- ascendancy
- controlling influence
- ascetic
- practicing self-denial
- astute
- wise
- atrophy
- waste away
- augment
- increase
- austerity
- sterness
- autonomous
- self-governing
- banal
- commonplace
- bane
- cause of ruin
- belie
- contradict, give a false impression
- brawn
- muscular strength
- buttress
- support prop up
- candor
- frankness
- censorious
- critical
- censure
- blame, criticize
- conciliatory
- appeasing
- condone
- overlook voluntarily, forgive
- conflagration
- great fire
- contagion
- infection
- contend
- struggle
- contentious
- quarrelsome
- corroborate
- confirm, support
- credulity
- gullibility
- cursory
- casual, hastily done
- debunk
- expose something as false
- deference
- courteous regard for another's wish
- deliberate
- consider, ponder
- deplore
- regret strongly
- depravity
- corruption, wickedness
- deprecate
- express disapporval of
- despondant
- gloomy
- despot
- harsh, authoritarian ruler
- didactic
- teaching, instructional
- diffuse
- wordy, rambling
- diminution
- lessening, reduction in size
- discursive
- digressing, rambling
- disinclination
- unwillingness
- disparge
- belittle
- dispel
- drive away
- dissent
- disagree
- dissipate
- waste, scatter
- dissonance
- lack of agreement
- dissuade
- advise against
- dogmatic
- opinionated
- doctrine
- teachings, in general (legal/religious)
- dubious
- doubtful, questionable