TTA published more vocabulary breakdowns from the November 2025 US sitting than from any other single Digital SAT form: more than a dozen word lists, each built around a theme tutors noticed while working through student-reported questions. No numbered answer key backs any of this (see the main test guide for why), but the word lists themselves are real, already-published breakdowns of real vocabulary-in-context questions. This page organizes them and pulls out what they teach in common.
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The lists, grouped by theme
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Start 1-day free trial →Every list below targets a different cluster of vocabulary from the November 2025 hard module. None of them ask you to memorize a dictionary. Each one teaches a pattern for recognizing what a blank is doing in its sentence.
- 28 words for secrecy, deception, and manner: adverb questions built from multiple context clues (words like "underground" or "anonymously") that combine into one description.
- 30 cause-and-effect words: words like "engenders" and "attenuates" hiding a simple cause-and-effect relationship inside dense sentence structure.
- 25 words tied to logic operators: vocabulary that shows up specifically inside "if…then," "although," and "while" sentence structures.
- Words built on timeline logic: vocabulary keyed to "until" and similar time-sequence markers.
- 25 words from refutation questions: vocabulary for sentences that push back against a prior claim.
- 21 literary analysis words: figurative-language vocabulary from the module's literature passages.
- 25 science and methodology words: process-and-method vocabulary from the module's science passages.
- 21 business vocabulary words: the same context-clue method applied to workplace and economics passages.
- A figurative-language question built on the idiom "pine from your own yard": one worked example of reading a figure of speech in context.
- A broader 30-word list from across the module's hard vocabulary questions.
- 20+ words from contrast and strategy questions: the structural difference between "whereas" (a subordinating conjunction joining one sentence) and "conversely" (an adverb joining two).
- 20+ words from straight Words in Context questions: the three-step predict-then-match method the whole domain runs on.
Two more posts extend the same skill into adjacent question types: choosing the logical and precise word and adverb choice on contrast questions, plus a general strategy guide for when you know every definition on the page and still can't pick the right one.
The pattern across all twelve lists
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Read enough of these and the same idea repeats: on the hard module, students weren't losing points because a word was obscure. They were losing points because they matched a word to the general topic of the sentence instead of its exact logical job.
Take the secrecy-and-manner cluster.
Or take the contrast cluster.
Because the miss usually isn't a vocabulary gap. It's a habit of reading the choices before predicting the word, which lets a true-sounding but wrong option anchor the guess. More words help only once the prediction habit is already in place.
Recall set
- What should you do before reading the answer choices on a Words in Context question?
- What's the structural difference between "whereas" and "conversely," and when do you use each?
- On a secrecy-and-manner question, what do you do with three or four separate context clues?
- Why can a vocabulary-rich student still miss these questions?
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