The November 2026 SAT Vocab Survey + Quiz INT Version 2

With the help of reports from students and Reddit's r/SAT, I've compiled the most common and challenging vocabulary from the November 2026 SAT INT Version 2. I've put these into a quiz format so students and parents can challenge themselves. Good luck!

SAT Vocabulary November 2026 International - Version 2 - Warm-up Reading Passage

Instructions: Read this passage carefully before taking your quiz. All 13 vocabulary words from the November 2026 International SAT (Version 2) appear in context. Pay attention to how each word is used naturally in the story.

The Return of the Bees

In the spring of 2019, beekeeper Amara Osei opened her hives and found them nearly empty. Months of low precipitation had left a dearth of flowering plants, and her bees had been forced to forage miles from home. Many never returned.

Amara refused to let the drought thwart her plans. She contacted a university entomologist, who helped her aggregate data from forty local beekeepers: hive weights, flower counts, rainfall totals, and losses. The team approached the problem with real rigor, measuring every hive on the same day each week.

The data revealed something uncomfortable. Wealthier beekeepers who could afford to move hives near irrigated farms lost far fewer colonies. The drought's impact, Amara realized, had been deeply inequitable.

Some officials dismissed her findings, claiming that a few bad seasons did not portend a long-term crisis. Others offered help only under the pretense of research, then used the data to promote expensive commercial hives.

Amara chose a different path. She condensed the team's findings into a single-page guide, translated into four local languages, explaining the optimal times to move hives and which drought-tolerant plants to grow nearby. She traveled from village to village to impart the lessons in person.

Five years later, the region has seen a resurgence in local honey production. Amara still keeps the empty hive from 2019 by her door as a reminder of how close it came.

Vocabulary words practiced: precipitation, condensed, dearth, thwart, optimal, forage, aggregate, impart, rigor, inequitable, resurgence, pretense, portend