Top 100 SAT Words, part 1

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• 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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