SAT Vocabulary Flash Cards

About this deck

Forty words that keep showing up in SAT reading passages and hard question stems — defined in plain English, the way you'd explain them to a friend, not the way a dictionary files them. Each back gives the meaning and a quick usage cue so the word attaches to something concrete instead of floating loose.

Modern SAT prep isn't about memorizing a thousand obscure words; the test now cares about words in context. That actually raises the value of a smaller, deeper list: these forty are common enough to appear in the passages themselves, precise enough to be answer choices, and useful enough to sharpen your own writing. Knowing that "equivocate" means deliberately hedging to avoid committing tells you something about a passage's author the moment it appears.

The first five cards are free to play. The full deck is part of QuestionCard Plus — a one-time $9 purchase that also opens every other premium deck, unlimited custom decks in the builder, and print export. Study pattern that works: run the deck, grade honestly, re-drill your misses from the report, and try writing one sentence of your own for each word you missed. Production beats recognition.