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The Princeton Reviews exclusive Hit Parade is a list that includes the most frequently and most recently tested words on the SAT. The complete list is available only in our courses, but here is a sampling. Once you get a feel for the level of vocabulary on the test, youll be able to spot other possible SAT words in your reading.
having to do with the appreciation of beauty aesthetic easy-going; friendly affable friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likable amiable feeling or showing little emotion apathetic drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite banal given to pompous speech or writing bombastic emotionally hardened; unfeeling callous cantankerous ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable impulsive and unpredictable capricious circumspect heedful of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent conspicuous easy to notice; obvious (Antonym: inconspicuous) having ceased to exist or live defunct having a harmful effect deleterious habitually late dilatory doubtful; of unlikely authenticity dubious given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech duplicitous distinguished; prominent eminent identification with and understanding of anothers situation, feelings, and motives empathetic having no fixed or regular course; wandering erratic exceeding all bounds, as of custom or fairness exorbitant full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy exuberant extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable flagrant given freely; unearned; unwarranted gratuitous great personal dishonor or humiliation ignominy having no adverse effect; harmless innocuous giving praise laudatory easily understood; clear lucid extremely careful and precise meticulous multifarious having great variety; diverse full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning obsequious exhibiting a display of great wealth opulent elaborately decorated ornate equality, as in amount, status, or value (Antonym: disparity) parity perspicacious having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted philanthropic humanitarian; benevolent enormous prodigious great depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning profundity hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will rancorous having or emitting fragrance; aromatic; suggestive, reminiscent redolent sanctimonious feigning piety or righteousness having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually not true specious superfluous extra; unnecessary surreptitious done by secretive means gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance tawdry having little substance or strength; shaky tenuous having or exhibiting healing powers therapeutic having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors; varicolored variegated green with vegetation; covered with green growth verdant felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another vicarious disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful vindictive

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