Hardest 250 SAT words

abjure

abrogate

acerbic

acrimony

acumen

adumbrate

alacrity

anathema

antipathy

approbation

arrogate

ascetic

aspersion

assiduous

blandish

boon

brusque

buffet

burnish

buttress

cacophony

cajole

calumny

capricious

clemency

cogent

concomitant

conflagration

contrite

conundrum

credulity

cupidity

cursory

decry

defile

deleterious

demure

deprecate

deride

desecrate

desiccated

diaphanous

diffident

discursive

dissemble

dither

ebullient

effrontery

effulgent

egregious

enervate

ephemeral

eschew

evanescent

evince

exculpate

execrable

exigent

expiate

expunge

extant

extol

fallacious

fastidious

fatuous

fecund

feral

fetid

florid

fractious

garrulous

grandiloquence

gregarious

hackneyed

hapless

harangue

hegemony

iconoclast

ignominious

impassive

imperious

impertinent

impervious

impetuous

impinge

implacable

impudent

inchoate

incontrovertible

indefatigable

ineffable

inexorable

ingenuous

inimical

iniquity

insidious

intransigent

inure

invective

inveterate

jubilant

juxtaposition

laconic

languid

largess

latent

legerdemain

licentious

limpid

maelstrom

magnanimous

malediction

malevolent

manifold

maudlin

mawkish

mendacious

mercurial

modicum

morass

multifarious

munificence

myriad

nadir

nascent

nefarious

neophyte

obdurate

obfuscate

oblique

obsequious

obstreperous

obtuse

odious

officious

opulent

ostensible

palliate

pallid

panacea

paragon

pariah

parsimony

pathos

paucity

pejorative

pellucid

penurious

perfidious

perfunctory

pernicious

perspicacity

pertinacious

petulance

pithy

platitude

plethora

polemic

portent

precocious

prescient

primeval

probity

proclivity

promulgate

propensity

propitious

prosaic

proscribe

protean

prurient

puerile

pugnacious

pulchritude

punctilious

quagmire

querulous

quixotic

rancor

rebuke

recalcitrant

rectitude

replete

reprobate

reprove

repudiate

rescind

restive

ribald

rife

ruse

sacrosanct

sagacity

salient

sanctimonious

sanguine

scurrilous

serendipity

servile

solicitous

somnolent

spurious

staid

stolid

stupefy

surfeit

surmise

surreptitious

sycophant

tacit

taciturn

tantamount

temerity

tenuous

timorous

torpid

tractable

transient

transmute

trenchant

truculent

turgid

turpitude

ubiquitous

umbrage

unctuous

undulate

upbraid

usurp

vacillate

vacuous

vapid

variegated

venerate

veracity

verdant

vex

vicarious

vicissitude

vilify

viscous

vitriolic

vituperate

wanton

winsome

wistful

wizened

zenith

zephyr