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SAT vocabulary from a teacher with 29 years in the classroom: real definitions, real examples, pronunciation, and the background knowledge that makes a word stay learned. Created by Erin Billy · San Francisco, CA

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🤝 Implicit: SAT Word of the Day

The link between meaning and trust.

👀 Incredulity: SAT Word of the Day

What does disbelief look like?

⚖️ Discrepancy: SAT Word of the Day

What was expected to match, but didn’t?

✅ Inherent: SAT Word of the Day

The "nature" in nature vs. nurture.

✅ Analogous: SAT Word of the Day

What do computer chips and brains share?

SAT Vocab Quiz: feasible, intrinsic, covert + 7 more

We learn one SAT word every weekday; this is the weekly quiz on the last ten words: feasible, intrinsic, covert, anomaly, verbatim, placid, coherent, insurmountable, ineluctable, fallible

✅ Feasible: SAT Word of the Day

Why 'possible' isn't quite the word you want.

💎 Intrinsic: SAT Word of the Day

Why are children curious without being taught?

🕵️ Covert: You Don't See Me

Overt is its opposite. Both get tested.

🔍 Anomaly: One in a Billion

This word keeps showing up on recent SATs.

🗣️ Verbatim: You Said It!

Think you've got VERBATIM down? A) summarized; B) paraphrased; C) from memory; D) word for word. Check your answer inside. 👉

SAT Vocab Quiz | 30 Questions - Aug 8, 2026

Challenge yourself on 2 weeks of words: placid, coherent, insurmountable, ineluctable, fallible, aesthetic, consensus, underscore, impeccable, affinity