Word familiarity list
SAT vocabulary words
Vocabulary-study words with recognition estimates.
- Known by
- 92.1%
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
- Known by
- 88.6%
find repugnant
- Known by
- 88.8%
of the most contemptible kind
- Known by
- 61.4%
revoke formally
- Known by
- 87.4%
run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- Known by
- 49.8%
difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- Known by
- 76%
sour or bitter in taste
- Known by
- 85.1%
to agree or express agreement
- Known by
- 83.8%
a rough and bitter manner
- Known by
- 87.9%
servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise
- Known by
- 98.8%
(philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful
- Known by
- 98%
(immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
- Known by
- 75.1%
liveliness and eagerness
- Known by
- 98%
provide physical relief, as from pain
- Known by
- 93.6%
the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
- Known by
- 99%
an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
- Known by
- 96.9%
uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
- Known by
- 70.2%
to make better
- Known by
- 89.3%
something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
- Known by
- 99.2%
an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
- Known by
- 99.2%
a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
- Known by
- 96.8%
deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
- Known by
- 91.2%
a feeling of intense dislike
- Known by
- 97.4%
an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
- Known by
- 98.5%
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
- Known by
- 98.4%
based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
- Known by
- 94.1%
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
- Known by
- 92.4%
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- Known by
- 89.6%
a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
- Known by
- 74.6%
someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
- Known by
- 84.1%
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
- Known by
- 95.4%
marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- Known by
- 98.2%
invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Known by
- 88.9%
severely simple
- Known by
- 78.9%
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- Known by
- 66.2%
having or showing a ready disposition to fight