50 Real Estate Exam Vocabulary Terms That Actually Get Tested

You don't need 1,000 flashcards — you need the terms the exam actually tests. A sample from the CinnaPrep deck:

• Escheat — property reverts to the state when someone dies with no will and no heirs.
• Novation — substituting a new party/contract, releasing the original party.
• Hypothecation — pledging property as collateral without giving up possession.
• Defeasible fee — ownership that can be lost if a condition breaks ("so long as…").
• Procuring cause — the broker whose unbroken efforts produced the buyer.
• Plottage — the value increase from combining adjacent parcels (the act is assemblage).
• Equitable title — the buyer's interest between contract and closing.
• Estoppel — being barred from denying what your conduct implied.
• Lis pendens — recorded notice of pending litigation affecting title.
• Emblements — a tenant farmer's right to harvest crops planted before the tenancy ended.

…and 40 more in the app's flashcard deck, each with a tap-to-reveal definition and the exam cue that signals it.

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