SAT Words with Memorable Sentence Fragments This SAT Prep Book contains all the 4058 words, meanings, and for most words, memorable sentence fragments, which makes it easy for you to memorize the SAT words for your high SAT score. The words are given in bold (example, the words belabor and buttress below). The meaning is given after the equal sign (=) following a word. The words are not necessarily in alphabetical order. We have used the US spellings. The British spelling of a word, when different from the US spelling, is given in bracket after BRITISH as shown for the word belabor below. USE gives a sentence fragment carefully chosen for memory. When no sentence fragment is given, a * is shown as in the word buttress below. belabor (BRITISH = belabour) = to assail verbally, to insist repeatedly or harp on USE = belabor a point buttress = support USE = * Why is vocabulary so very important on the SAT test? Vocab is so important for the SAT test because, for most people, it is more difficult to memorize vocabulary than to improve math skills. So if you can memorize the required SAT words (which others find difficult) you can get high SAT score.