SAT High Frequency Words : 51-60

1. Cajole (v) : coax; wheedle. Diane tried to cajole her father into letting her drive the family car.
2. Calculated (adj) : deliberately planned; likely. Lexy’s choice of clothes to wear to the debate tournament was carefully calculated. Her conventional suit was one calculated to appeal to the conservative judges.
3. Candor (n) : frankness; open honesty. Jack can carry candor too far: when he told Jill his honest opinion of her, she nearly slapped his face.
4. Capricious (adj) : unpredictable; fickle. The storm was capricious: it changed course constantly. Jill was capricious, too: she changed boyfriends almost as often as she changed clothes.
5. Censorious (adj)  : critical. Censorious people delight in casting blame.
6. Censure (v) : blame; criticize. The senator was censured for behavior inappropriate to a member of Congress.
7. Coercion (n) : use of force to get someone to obey. The inquisitors used both physical and psychological coercion to force Joan of Arc to deny that her visions were sent by God.
8. Commemorate (v)  : honor the memory of. The statue of the Minute Man commemorates the valiant soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War.
9. Compile (v) . assemble; gather; accumulate. We planned to compile a list of the words most frequently used on SAT examinations.
10. Complacency (n)  : self-satisfaction; smugness. Full of complacency about his latest victories, he looked smugly at the row of trophies on his mantelpiece.

Barron's High Frequency 333 GRE Words : 51-60

1. Coagulate (v) : thicken, congeal, clot; Even after you remove the pudding from the burner, it will continue to COAGULATE as it stands.
2. Coda (n) : concluding section of a musical or literary composition, something that rounds out, summarizes, or concludes; The piece concluded with a distinctive CODA that strikingly brought together various motifs.
3. Cogent (adj) : convincing; It was inevitable that David chose to go to Harvard, he had several COGENT reasons for doing so, including a full-tuition scholarship.
4. Commensurate (adj) : corresponding in extent, degree, amount etc; proportionate; By the close of World War II much progress had been made in assigning nurses rank and responsibilities COMMENSURATE with their training and abilities.
5. Compendium (n) : brief, comprehensive summary; This text can serve as a COMPENDIUM of the tremendous amount of new material being developed in this field.
6. Complaisant (adj) : trying to please, overly polite, obliging; Fearing that the king might become enraged if his will were thwarted, the COMPLAISANT Parliament recognized Henry VII as king of Ireland.
7. Compliant (adj) : yielding, conforming to requirements; Because Joel usually gave in and went along with whatever his friends desired, his mother worried that he might be too COMPLIANT.
8. Conciliatory (adj) : reconciling, soothing; She was still angry despite his CONCILIATORY words.
9. Condone (v) : overlook, forgive, give tacit approval, excuse; Unlike Widow Douglass, who CONDONED Huck’s minor offenses, Miss Watson did nothing but scold.
10. Confound (n) : confuse, puzzle; No mystery could CONFOUND Sherlock Holmes for long.

SAT High Frequency Words : 41-50

1. Augment (v) : increase; add to. Armies augment their forces by calling up reinforcements; teachers augment their salaries by taking odd jobs.
2. Austere (adj) : forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented. The headmaster’s austere demeanor tended to scare off the more timid students, who never visited his study willingly.
3. Authoritarian (adj) : subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another’s will. The leaders of the authoritarian regime ordered the suppression of the democratic protest movement.
4. Autonomous (adj) : self-governing. Although the University of California at Berkeley is just one part of the state university system, in many ways Cal Berkeley is autonomous, for it runs several programs that are not subject to outside control.
5. Aversion (v) : firm dislike. Bert had an aversion to yuppies; Alex had an aversion to punks. Their mutual aversion was so great that they refused to speak to one another.
6. Belie (v) : contradict; give a false impression. His coarse, hard-bitten exterior belied his inner sensitivity.
7. Benevolent (adj)  : generous; charitable. Mr. Fezziwig was a benevolent employer, who wished to make Christmas merrier for young Scrooge and his other employees.
8. Bolster (v) : support; reinforce. The debaters amassed file boxes full of evidence to bolster their arguments.
9. Braggart (n) : boaster. Modest by nature, she was no braggart, preferring to let her accomplishments speak for themselves.
10. Brevity (n) : conciseness. Brevity is essential when you send a telegram or cablegram; you are charged for every word.

Barron's High Frequency 333 GRE Words : 41-50

1. Boorish (adj) : rude, insensitive; Though Mr. Potts constantly interrupted his wife, she ignored his BOORISH behavior for she had lost hope of teaching him courtesy.
2. Burgeoning (adj) : flourishing, growing quickly, putting out buds; Phil and Adam could scarcely keep up with the BURGEONING demand for the services of their production company.
3. Burnish (v) : make shiny by rubbing, polish; The maid BURNISHED the brass fixtures until they reflected the lamplight.
4. Buttress (v) : support, prop up; Just as architects BUTTRESS the walls of cathedrals with buttresses, debaters buttress their arguments with facts.
5. Cacophonous (adj) : discordant, inharmonious; Do the students in the orchestra enjoy the CACOPHONOUS sounds they make when they’re tuning up?
6. Capricious (adj) : unpredictable, fickle; The storm was CAPRICIOUS, it changed course constantly.
7. Castigation (n) : punishment, severe criticism; Sensitive even to mild criticism, Woolf could not bear the CASTIGATION that she found in certain reviews.
8. Catalyst (n) : agent that influences the pace of a chemical reaction while it remains unaffected and unchanged, person or thing that causes action; After a banana is harvested, certain enzymes within its cells continue to act as a CATALYST for the biochemical processes of ripening.
9. Caustic (adj) : burning, sarcastically biting; The critic’s CAUSTIC remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm.
10. Chicanery (n) : trickery, deception; Those sneaky lawyers misrepresented what occurred, made up all sorts of implausible alternative scenarios to confuse the jurors, and in general depended on CHICANERY to win the case.

SAT High Frequency Words : 31-40

1. Archaic (adj) : antiquated. “Methinks,” “thee,” and “thou” are archaic words that are no longer part of our normal vocabulary
2. Arrogance (n) : pride; haughtiness. Convinced that Emma thought she was better than anyone else in the class, Ed rebuked her for her arrogance.
3. Articulate (adj) : effective; distinct. Her articulate presentation of the advertising campaign impressed her employers.
4. Artifact (n) : object made by human beings, either hand made or mass-produced. Archaeologists debated the significance of the artifacts discovered in the ruins of Asia Minor but came to no conclusion about the culture they represented.
5. Artisan (n) : manually skilled worker; craftsman, as opposed to artist. A noted artisan, Arturo was known for the fine craftsmanship of his inlaid cabinets.
6. Ascendancy (n) : controlling influence; domination. Leaders of religious cults maintain ascendancy over their followers by methods that can verge on brainwashing.
7. Ascetic (adj) : practicing self-denial; austere. The wealthy, self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders.
8. Aspire (v) : seek to attain; long for. Because he aspired to a career in professional sports, Philip enrolled in a graduate program in sports management.
9. Astute (adj) : wise; shrewd; keen. John Jacob Astor made astute investments in land, shrewdly purchasing valuable plots throughout New York City.
10. Attribute (v) : ascribe; explain. I attribute her success in science to the encouragement she received from her parents.

SAT High Frequency Words : 21-30

1. Anarchist (n) : person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority. Denying she was an anarchist, Katya maintained she wished only to make changes in our government, not to destroy it entirely.
2. Anecdote (n) : short account of an amusing or interesting event. Rather than make concrete proposals for welfare reform, President Reagan told anecdotes about poor people who became wealthy despite their impoverished backgrounds.
3. Animosity (n) : active enmity. He incurred the animosity of the ruling class because he advocated limitations of their power.
4. Antagonism (n) : hostility; active resistance. Barry showed his antagonism toward his new stepmother by ignoring her whenever she tried talking to him.
5. Antidote (n) : medicine to counteract a poison or disease. When Marge’s child accidentally swallowed some cleaning fluid, the local poison control hotline instructed Marge how to administer the antidote.
6. Antiquated (adj) : old-fashioned; obsolete. Philip had grown so accustomed to editing his papers on word processors that he thought typewriters were too antiquated for him to use.
7. Apathy (n) : Iack of caring; indifference. A firm believer in democratic government, she could not understand the apathy of people who never bothered to vote.
8. Appease (v)  : pacify or soothe; relieve. Tom and Jody tried to appease the crying baby by offering him one toy after another, but he would not calm down until they appeased his hunger by giving him a bottle.
9. Apprehension (n) : fear. His nervous glances at the passersby on the deserted street revealed his apprehension.
10. Arbitrary (adj) : capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical. Tom’s arbitrary dismissal angered him; his boss had no reason to fire him.