As part of our continuing vocabulary series we present to you the most interesting and challenging words from the January 2012 SAT. The Jan SAT featured some of the old standby SAT words that have appeared on many SATs in the past (including fastidious, pessimism, and tenacious) but it also featured some that haven’t been seen as often such as rapacious, humbuggery, and quackery. As always the SAT attempts to test your grasp of a college-level vocabulary.
So here’s the list:
- artistry
- persistence
- pessimism
- foresight
- perceptible
- voluptuous
- luxuriant
- diction
- sensuous
- sheepish
- pedantic
- imperious
- prolonged
- histrionic
- judicious
- ingenuous
- torpid
- rapacious
- obdurate
- loquacious
- wit
- disavowed
- retracted
- subliminal
- stupefying
- cathartic
- corrosive
- meticulous
- aberrant
- embryonic
- deferential
- quotidian
- myopic
- unequivocal
- forthright
- libelous
- drudgery
- tenacious
- prescient
- consternation
- wariness
- ambivalence
- unsung
- fastidious
- docile
- surreptitious
- diminutive
- humbuggery
- quackery
- forestall
- sophistry
- balderdash
- thwart
- expound
- nostrums
- ruminated
- daunting
- adroit
- erudition
- animosity
- juggernaut
- miasma
- tinkering
How many do you know?