SAT word
US/ˌɛsˌeɪ̯ˈti ˌwɝd/
SAT word noun: a particularly difficult or obscure word.
Noun
SAT word (plural SAT words)
- A particularly difficult or obscure word.
- He was just dropping SAT words left and right! Like who even says "whence" anymore?!
- Add to this a partnership, also announced today, with Khan Academy to provide free test-prep materials for the SAT -- adaptive software, dashboards, feedback -- and there are probably a lot of (alert: SAT word) melancholy tutors right now.
- Of course, the College Board cannot erase the test-prep industry in one fell swoop. Change will still bring (alert: another SAT word) trepidation, something a professional tutor will happily accept an hourly fee to (OK, last SAT word) assuage.2014 March 5, Editorial Board, “The New SAT Is a) Better b) Worse c) Both”, in Bloomberg Opinion
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see SAT, word.
Examples of SAT word in a sentence
- Here's an SAT word for you: "aptronym." An aptronym is a proper name that's especially "apt" for describing the person who bears it.2019 June 4, Maureen Corrigan, “An Immigrant Yearns For Connection In 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'”, in NPR:
- Laverne Cox dropped a serious SAT word during her virtual red carpet interview at Sunday’s Golden Globes.2021 February 28, Lawrence Yee, “Golden Globes: Laverne Cox Just Asked Us to Google ‘Extradiegetic,’ So We Did”, in The Wrap:
Forms of SAT word
| plural | SAT words |
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Origin of SAT word
An idiomatic usage that derives from the former (pre-2016) Reading section of the SAT Reasoning Test where students had to define and understand obscure words, often above their level.
Questions about SAT word
- What does SAT word mean?
- SAT word means a particularly difficult or obscure word.
- How do you use SAT word in a sentence?
- Here's an SAT word for you: "aptronym." An aptronym is a proper name that's especially "apt" for describing the person who bears it.
- What part of speech is SAT word?
- SAT word is a noun.
- How do you pronounce SAT word?
- SAT word is pronounced /ˌɛsˌeɪ̯ˈti ˌwɝd/ (US).
- What is the plural of SAT word?
- The plural of SAT word is SAT words.
Words near SAT word in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: SAT word (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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