Sometimes, seeing what’s on the SAT can prepare us for future tests. Since vocabulary is so important, we got a couple of word nerds together to go through the May 2011 SAT test and pull out the most notorious words – a task they performed with celerity.
- Forbidden
- Mischief
- Daunting
- Abominable
- Congenial
- Belied
- Defiled
- Embedded
- Deployed
- Impunity
- Celerity
- Ambivalent
- Presumptuous
- Censorious
- Didactic
- Plangent
- Florid
- Idiosyncratic
- Archaic
- Purveyors
- Vestiges
- Figments
- Harbingers
- Insipid
- Derivatives
- Bewildered
- Contemptuous
- Critical
- Neutral
- Nostalgic
- Volatile
- Insular
- Affluent
- Apathy
- Charismatic
- Notorious
- Lenient
- Dictatorial
- Enervated
- Marginalized
- Lauded
- Irrelevant
- Allusion
- Anomaly
- Misnomer
- Epigram
- Platitude
- Irreconcilable
- Assimilate
- Divergent
- Mitigate
- Iconoclast
- Misanthrope
- Equanimity
- Capriciousness
- Banal
- Mawkishness
- Serendipity
- Munificence
You should take advantage of our equanimity and learn these words, because if they’ve used a word once, they’ll eventually use it again!