WOW Words (SAT VOCABULARY)

Kagan. Vocabulary Cartoons: SAT Word Power. Florida: New Monic Books, 2007 & 2013.

List 1ambiance, cower, disparage, infamy, maim, morpheme, prefix, suffix, root

List2 congenial, embellish, gregarious, gullible, lax, prefixes: ben-, mal-

List3 abhor, bleak, dauntless, impair, influx,

List4 guile, jaunt, lackadaisical, languish, scapegoat, prefixes: de-, in-

List5 elapse, girth, gloat, docile, muster, partition

List6 entice, fickle, giddy, oust, wane, prefixes: im-, sub-

List7 beget, myriad, muse, precarious, procrastinate

List8 affinity, badger, cajole, edifice, paradox, prefixes: trans-, uni-

List9 cranny, dilemma, glutton, harrowing, intervene, taciturn

List10 mores, opportune, plight, bludgeon, quixotic, hedonism, prefixes: prim-, du-

List11 assuage, bulwark, castigate, dispel, optimum, ostracize

List12 abridge, astute, catharsis, disperse, quirky, suffixes: -ion, -ous

List13 atypical, cache, demur, lambaste, volition

List14 abstruse, austere, deft, dormant, veer, suffixes: -ose, -ence

List15 abut, beleaguer, chasm, damper, verbatim

List 16 abyss, bereave, coup, wither, unbridled, suffixes: -ance, -ant

List 17 accolade, beset, chide, debase, umbrage, nemesis

List18 ajar, connoisseur, caucus, debacle, ubiquitous, suffixes: -ent, -able

List 19abate, diverse, dour, elocution, languid

List20 alienate, alleviate, callous, elfin, embody, paranoia, suffixes: -ble, -ible

List21 accrue, bland, camaraderie, fiasco, lithe

List22 allure, aloof, cacophony, denounce, efface, tether, torque, supplant, portmanteau word, puns

List 23 aesthetic, bedlam, deploy, dishevel, exonerate, suffixes: -acious, - ify

List24 altercation, emulate, endure, forbear, forage, grandiose, impede, incongruous

List25 amendable, candor, engulf, forsake, idiosyncrasy, ubiquitous, suffixes: -ian, -escent

List26 aptitude, enrage, fortuitous, incite, lament, sanguine

List27 alacrityarchaic, capacious, enrapture, fathom, grandiloquent, suffix: -ize and root: “cept”

List28 arduous, ensemble, evoke, fawn, gossamer, epistemic

List29 askew, chronic, entreat, feign, gird, egregious

List30 aspire, circa, deter, erudite, fraught, incendiary root: “tain” and “sequ”

List 31 adherent, asinine, cataclysm, embroil, forebode

List32 commodious, comprise, curtail, doldrums, duress, emit, euphonious, evade, laconic

List33 expunge, reminisce, resurgent, rudimentary, somber root: “annu” and “neutr”

List34 catapult, cerebral, gamin, penitent, ramification

List35 insouciant, laconic, masticate, nepotism, noxious, wince

Idiom List

big wig, upper hand, make a mountain out of a molehill, miss the boat, give someone the cold shoulder, let the cat out of the bag, bull in a china shop, no spring chicken, wild horses couldn’t drag it out of me, Achilles heel, through the wringer, burn the midnight oil, make hay while the sun shines, take the bull by the horns, in one ear and out the other, show your true colors, ace up your sleeve, at the drop of a hat, dime a dozen, bark up the wrong tree, throw in the towel, under the weather, turn over a new leaf, clam up