SAT Vocabulary - SAT Vocabulary List 20

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. Variance - a difference between what is expected and what actually occurs
2. Vim - and energy, vigor
3. Abase - to lower, demean, degrade
4. Battery - an assault or an array of similar things intended for use together
5. Calumny - an attempt to defame another’s reputation
6. Dearth - a lack, scarcity
7. Empathetic - feeling another’s pain as one’s own
8. Facile – easy
9. Gluttonous - insatiable in appetite
10. Harrowing - agonizing, distressing