SAT Vocabulary

More than 50 SAT vocabulary quizzes across 8 topics, built to teach you to read a word for meaning instead of memorizing a list. Every vocabulary word is read aloud and set in a sentence, the way the test asks it. Start with the Must-Know 20, or use 30 prefixes and 19 suffixes to decode words you have never seen.

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⭐ The Must-Know 20

Some words turn up on the SAT year after year. These nine quizzes teach that core set the way the test actually uses them, through careful reading of context.

🏆 Snap · The Must-Know 20

Match twenty essential SAT words to their meanings before the clock runs out. Snap turns the Must-Know 20 into a timed matching game that drills vocabulary under real pressure.

⚔️ Debate Words

Argument has its own vocabulary: conceding a point, refuting one, hedging a claim just enough. Six quizzes build the language of argument and persuasion the test leans on.

🎭 Mood and Tone Words

Can you name the exact feeling a passage gives off, not just whether it is upbeat or gloomy? Six quizzes give you the precise language for an author's attitude.

🔀 Change Words

Prices can dip, slide, or plummet, and the passage means exactly one of them. These five quizzes cover the verbs of change, the ones that pin down both the direction and the degree.

🦉 Knowledge Words

Guessing something, inferring it, and proving it are three different claims. These five quizzes sort out the verbs of knowing, learning, and figuring things out.

➡️🧱 Prefixes

Learn one prefix and you have a handle on dozens of words that use it. These ten quizzes cover 30 Latin and Greek prefixes, enough to decode words you have never seen before.

🧱⬅️ Suffixes

A word's ending usually gives away its job, and often its meaning. These eight quizzes cover 19 common suffixes and how to read an unfamiliar word by its ending.

Word Families, Prefixes, and Suffixes

One word ending can reveal a word's whole job: -tion almost always marks a noun, -ize a verb, and -ous an adjective. That kind of pattern runs through all of these quizzes, and it is what turns an unfamiliar word into one you can reason about.

You will work through themed sets of change words, debate words, knowledge words, and mood-and-tone words, choosing the one that fits a passage most precisely, from plummet (to drop sharply) to wry (dryly humorous). Other strands decode 30 Latin and Greek prefixes and 19 common suffixes, plus a Must-Know 20 set of high-priority words like tenuous (weak or flimsy) and ubiquitous (found everywhere).

There is even a timed matching game, Snap, that drills the core words against the clock. The quizzes climb from clear context to the subtle near-synonym distinctions the hardest questions demand.

SAT Vocabulary with Audio Pronunciation

Every vocabulary word comes with audio, so you hear it spoken while you learn its meaning. Hearing a word like cogent (clear and convincing) helps the sound and the sense lock in together.

Why Roots Pay Off

Knowing a word's root often helps you both remember it and guess at its meaning cold, since ubiquitous comes straight from the Latin ubique (everywhere). Spot a familiar prefix or suffix and an intimidating word often breaks into parts you already understand.

These words appear constantly in the passages the test pulls from, and they show up in college reading and everyday articles too, so the top-priority sets give you the best return for your study time. The themed groups also train your ear for the small clues that decide an answer, since signal words like "suddenly" or "steadily" point you toward the verb with the right speed and size of change.

Recalling a word against a ticking clock, the way the Snap game works, is one of the most effective ways to move it into long-term memory.

Not sure where to start? The Must-Know 20 is the shortest path to the words the test reuses, and the prefix and suffix sets cover the most ground for the time they take.