Tackling the SAT Critical Reading: Essential Vocab

Here is a list of words that you should definitely be familiar with for the SAT Critical Reading section. These words often come up in passage questions, so get memorizing!

• Aesthetic
• Allusion
• Ambivalent
• Anecdote
• Assert
• Assess
• Belied
• Characterize
• Compare
• Concur
• Contempt
• Contrast
• Conventional
• Convey
• Debunk
• Digression
• Discern
• Discredit
• Disengaged
• Disinterested
• Dismissive
• Disparage
• Disparity
• Dispassionate
• Dubious
• Elicit
• Endorse
• Equivocate
• Exemplify
• Hyperbole
• Hypothesis
• Illustrate
• Indifferent
• Interpret
• Ironic
• Justify
• Metaphor
• Nostalgia
• Objective
• Partisan
• Personification
• Phenomenon
• Plausible
• Pragmatic
• Prove
• Provoke
• Qualified
• Reconcile
• Refute
• Relevant
• Repudiate
• Resigned
• Reverent
• Rhetoric
• Satire
• Scornful
• Scrutinize
• Simile
• Speculate
• Subjective
• Substantiate
• Undermine
• Underscore
• Yield