Words for the SAT
1,783 SAT vocabulary words
Words for the SAT, from published SAT word lists and the Academic Word List.
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- placebo
- placid
- plaintiff
- platitude
- plausible
- plethora
- plummet
- poignant
- polemic
- polemical
- policy
- ponderous
- pontificate
- portend
- portion
- pose
- posed
- posing
- positive
- positively
- posthumous
- postulate
- potential
- potentially
- practitioner
- pragmatic
- pragmatist
- preamble
- precarious
- precede
- precedent
- preceding
- precept
- precipitous
- precise
- precisely
- preclude
- precocious
- predecessor
- predicament
- predilection
- predominant
- predominantly
- preliminary
- prescient
- prescribe
- presentiment
- presumably
- presume
- presumption
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- prevaricate
- previous
- previously
- primacy
- primarily
- primary
- prime
- principal
- principle
- principled
- prior
- priority
- pristine
- probity
- procedure
- proceed
- proceeding
- proceedings
- proceeds
- process
- processed
- processing
- proclivity
- prodigal
- prodigious
- profligate
- profound
- profundity
- profuse
- prohibit
- project
- projected
- projecting
- projection
- prolific
- promote
- promotion
- propagate
- propensity
- propitious
- proportion
- propriety
- prosaic
- prospect
- prospective
- protean
- protocol
- provincial
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