SAT Vocabulary - SAT Vocabulary List 12

Here are more SAT vocabulary words you should know before taking the SAT. After you have conquered this list, you can move on to the other SAT vocabulary lists found in the index.

(Please note that definitions have been kept short for memorization purposes.)

1. Diligent – careful, showing care
2. Destitute – impoverished
3. Credulity – readiness to believe
4. Contusion – injury, bruise
5. Conduit – a passage, pipe, channel
6. Burgeon – to blossom, come forth
7. Bereft – devoid of, without
8. Atone – make amends, apologize
9. Apparitional – ghostly, spectral
10. Anomaly – something that does not fit with the normal order