The top 1,000 vocabulary words have been carefully chosen to represent difficult but common words that appear in everyday academic and business writing. These words are also the most likely to appear on the SAT, ACT, GRE, and ToEFL.
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Page 1 - 1 to 100 Words
consider, minute, accord, evident, practice, intend, concern, commit, issue, approach, establish, utter, conduct, engage, obtain, scarce, policy, straight, stock, apparent, property, fancy, concept, court, appoint, passage, vain, instance, coast, project, commission, constant, circumstances, constitute, level, affect, institute, render, appeal, generate, theory, range, campaign, league, labor, confer, grant, dwell, entertain, contract, earnest, yield, wander, insist, knight, convince, inspire, convention, skill, harry, financial, reflect, novel, furnish, compel, venture, territory, temper, bent, intimate, undertake, majority, assert, crew, chamber, humble, scheme, keen, liberal, despair, tide, attitude, justify, flag, merit, manifest, notion, scale, formal, resource, persist, contempt, tour, plead, weigh, mode, distinction, inclined, attribute, exert
Page 2 - 101 to 200 Words
oppress, contend, stake, toil, perish, disposition, rail, cardinal, boast, advocate, bestow, allege, notwithstanding, lofty, multitude, steep, heed, modest, partial, apt, esteem, credible, provoke, tread, ascertain, fare, cede, perpetual, decree, contrive, derived, elaborate, substantial, frontier, facile, cite, warrant, sob, rider, dense, afflict, flourish, ordain, pious, vex, gravity, suspended, conspicuous, retort, jet, bolt, assent, purse, plus, sanction, proceeding, exalt, siege, malice, extravagant, wax, throng, venerate, assail, sublime, exploit, exertion, kindle, endow, imposed, humiliate, suffrage, ensue, brook, gale, muse, satire, intrigue, indication, dispatch, cower, wont, tract, canon, impel, latitude, vacate, undertaking, slay, predecessor, delicacy, forsake, beseech, philosophical, grove, frustrate, illustrious, device, pomp, entreat
Page 3 - 201 to 300 Words
impart, propriety, consecrate, proceeds, fathom, objective, clad, partisan, faction, contrived, venerable, restrained, besiege, manifestation, rebuke, insurgent, rhetoric, scrupulous, ratify, stump, discreet, imposing, wistful, mortify, ripple, premise, subside, adverse, caprice, muster, comprehensive, accede, fervent, cohere, tribunal, austere, recovering, stratum, conscientious, arbitrary, exasperate, conjure, ominous, edifice, elude, pervade, foster, admonish, repeal, retiring, incidental, acquiesce, slew, usurp, sentinel, precision, depose, wanton, odium, precept, deference, fray, candid, enduring, impertinent, bland, insinuate, nominal, suppliant, languid, rave, monetary, headlong, infallible, coax, explicate, gaunt, morbid, ranging, pacify, pastoral, dogged, ebb, aide, appease, stipulate, recourse, constrained, bate, aversion, conceit, loath, rampart, extort, tarry, perpetrate, decorum, luxuriant, cant, enjoin
Page 4 - 301 to 400 Words
avarice, edict, disconcert, symmetry, capitulate, arbitrate, cleave, append, visage, horde, parable, chastise, foil, veritable, grapple, gentry, pall, maxim, projection, prowess, dingy, semblance, tout, fortitude, asunder, rout, staid, beguile, purport, deprave, bequeath, enigma, assiduous, vassal, quail, outskirts, bulwark, swerve, gird, betrothed, prospective, advert, peremptory, rudiment, deduce, halting, ignominy, ideology, pallid, chagrin, obtrude, audacious, construe, ford, repast, stint, fresco, dutiful, hew, parity, affable, interminable, pillage, foreboding, rend, livelihood, deign, capricious, stupendous, chaff, innate, reverie, wrangle, crevice, ostensible, craven, vestige, plumb, reticent, propensity, chide, espouse, raiment, intrepid, seemly, allay, fitful, erode, unaffected, canto, docile, patronize, teem, estrange, spat, warble, mien, sate, constituency, patrician
Page 5 - 401 to 500 Words
parry, practitioner, ravel, infest, actuate, surly, convalesce, demoralize, devolve, alacrity, waive, unwonted, seethe, scrutinize, diffident, execrate, implacable, pique, mite, encumber, uncouth, petulant, expiate, cavalier, banter, bluster, debase, retainer, subjugate, extol, fraught, august, fissure, knoll, callous, inculcate, nettle, blanch, inscrutable, tenacious, thrall, exigency, disconsolate, impetus, imposition, auspices, sonorous, exploitation, bane, dint, ignominious, amicable, onset, conservatory, zenith, voluble, yeoman, levity, rapt, sultry, pinion, axiom, descry, retinue, functionary, imbibe, diversified, maraud, grudging, partiality, philology, wry, caucus, permeate, propitious, salient, propitiate, excise, betoken, palatable, upbraid, renegade, hoary, pedantic, coy, troth, encroachment, belie, armada, succor, imperturbable, irresolute, knack, unseemly, accentuate, divulge, brawn, burnish, palpitate, promiscuous
Page 6 - 501 to 600 Words
dissemble, flotilla, invective, hermitage, despoil, sully, malevolent, irksome, prattle, subaltern, welt, wreak, tenable, inimitable, depredation, amalgamate, immutable, proxy, dote, reactionary, rationalism, endue, discriminating, brooch, pert, disembark, aria, trappings, abet, clandestine, distend, glib, pucker, rejoinder, spangle, blighted, nicety, aggrieve, vestment, urbane, defray, spectral, munificent, dictum, fad, scabbard, adulterate, beleaguer, gripe, remission, exorbitant, invocation, cajole, inclusive, interdict, abase, obviate, hurtle, unanimity, mettle, interpolate, surreptitious, dissimulate, ruse, specious, revulsion, hale, palliate, obtuse, querulous, vagary, incipient, obdurate, grovel, refractory, dregs, ascendancy, supercilious, pundit, commiserate, alcove, assay, parochial, conjugal, abjure, frieze, ornate, inflammatory, machination, mendicant, meander, bullion, diffidence, makeshift, husbandry, podium, dearth, granary, whet, imposture
Page 7 - 601 to 700 Words
diadem, fallow, hubbub, dispassionate, harrowing, askance, lancet, rankle, ramify, gainsay, polity, credence, indemnify, ingratiate, declivity, importunate, passe, whittle, repine, flay, larder, threadbare, grisly, untoward, idiosyncrasy, quip, blatant, stanch, incongruity, perfidious, platitude, revelry, delve, extenuate, polemic, enrapture, virtuoso, glower, mundane, fatuous, incorrigible, postulate, gist, vociferous, purvey, baleful, gibe, dyspeptic, prude, luminary, amenable, willful, overbearing, dais, automate, enervate, wheedle, gusto, bouillon, omniscient, apostate, carrion, emolument, ungainly, impiety, decadence, homily, avocation, circumvent, syllogism, collation, haggle, waylay, savant, cohort, unction, adjure, acrimony, clarion, turbid, cupidity, disaffected, preternatural, eschew, expatiate, didactic, sinuous, rancor, puissant, homespun, embroil, pathological, resonant, libretto, flail, bandy, gratis, upshot, aphorism, redoubtable
Page 8 - 701 to 800 Words
corpulent, benighted, sententious, cabal, paraphernalia, vitiate, adulation, quaff, unassuming, libertine, maul, adage, expostulation, tawdry, trite, hireling, ensconce, egregious, cogent, incisive, errant, sedulous, incandescent, derelict, entomology, execrable, sluice, moot, evanescent, vat, dapper, asperity, flair, mote, circumspect, inimical, apropos, gruel, gentility, disapprobation, cameo, gouge, oratorio, inclement, scintilla, confluence, squalor, stricture, emblazon, augury, abut, banal, congeal, pilfer, malcontent, sublimate, eugenic, lineament, firebrand, fiasco, foolhardy, retrench, ulterior, equable, inured, invidious, unmitigated, concomitant, cozen, phlegmatic, dormer, pontifical, disport, apologist, abeyance, enclave, improvident, disquisition, categorical, placate, redolent, felicitous, gusty, natty, pacifist, buxom, heyday, herculean, burgeon, crone, prognosticate, lout, simper, iniquitous, rile, sentient, garish, readjustment, erstwhile, aquiline
Page 9 - 801 to 900 Words
bilious, vilify, nuance, gawk, refectory, palatial, mincing, trenchant, emboss, proletarian, careen, debacle, sycophant, crabbed, archetype, cryptic, penchant, bauble, mountebank, fawning, hummock, apotheosis, discretionary, pithy, comport, checkered, ambrosia, factious, disgorge, filch, wraith, demonstrable, pertinacious, emend, laggard, waffle, loquacious, venial, peon, effulgence, lode, fanfare, dilettante, pusillanimous, ingrained, quagmire, reprobation, mannered, squeamish, proclivity, miserly, vapid, mercurial, perspicuous, nonplus, enamor, hackneyed, spate, pedagogue, acme, masticate, sinecure, indite, emetic, temporize, unimpeachable, genesis, mordant, smattering, suavity, stentorian, junket, appurtenance, nostrum, immure, astringent, unfaltering, tutelage, testator, elysian, fulminate, fractious, pummel, manumit, unexceptionable, triumvirate, sybarite, jibe, magisterial, roseate, obloquy, hoodwink, striate, arrogate, rarefied, chary, credo, superannuated, impolitic, aspersion
Page 10 - 901 to 1000 Words
abysmal, poignancy, stilted, effete, provender, endemic, jocund, procedural, rakish, skittish, peroration, nonentity, abstemious, viscid, doggerel, sleight, rubric, plenitude, rebus, wizened, whorl, fracas, conoclast, saturnine, madrigal, discursive, zealot, moribund, modicum, connotation, adventitious, recondite, zephyr, countermand, captious, cognate, forebear, cadaverous, foist, dotage, nexus, choleric, garble, bucolic, denouement, animus, overweening, tyro, preen, largesse, retentive, unconscionable, badinage, insensate, sherbet, beatific, bemuse, microcosm, factitious, gestate, traduce, sextant, coiffure, malleable, rococo, fructify, nihilist, ellipsis, accolade, codicil, roil, grandiloquent, inconsequential, effervescence, stultify, tureen, pellucid, euphony, apocryphal, veracious, pendulous, exegesis, effluvium, apposite, viscous, misanthrope, vintner, halcyon, anthropomorphic, turgid, malaise, polemical, gadfly, atavism, contusion, parsimonious, dulcet, reprise, anodyne, bemused