SAT vocabulary, grouped by what the words mean.
Alphabetical word lists are how vocabulary gets published, not how it gets learned. These 31 guides split the same 1,550 words into themes — certainty and doubt, cause and effect, wealth and poverty — so each study session covers words that reinforce each other instead of words that merely start with the same letter.
Every entry carries its part of speech, a plain-English definition, an example sentence showing the word in context, and a memory cue. Open a theme to read its full word list on this site, or download the PDF and print it.
How to use them
Pick one theme per study session rather than working front to back. Read the definition, say the word aloud, then reread the example sentence — the Digital SAT never tests a word in isolation, so the sentence matters more than the definition does. Come back to the themes you found hardest a few days later; spacing the repeats is what moves words into long-term memory.
When a theme feels solid, test it. The vocabulary trainer quizzes the same themes with flashcards and matching, the flashcard tool drills raw recall, and Words in Context questions put the words back into real SAT passages. For the full alphabetical reference, see the SAT vocabulary list.