Kaplan's SAT Vocab (C)
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- cache
- n. a hiding place; stockpile
- cacophony
- n. a jarring, unpleasant noise
- calumny
- n. a false and malicious accusation; misrepresentation
- cantankerous
- adj. having a difficult, uncooperative, or stubborn disposition
- captious
- adj. marked by the tendency to point out trivial faults; intended to confuse in an argument
- cataclysmic
- adj. severely destructive
- catalyst
- n. something that provokes or speeds up significant change, especially without being affected by the consequences
- caucus
- n. a closed committee within a political party; a private committee meeting
- caustic
- adj. biting, sarcastic
- cede
- v. to surrender possesion of something
- celerity
- n. speed, haste
- censorious
- adj. critical; tending to blame and condemn
- certitude
- n. assurance; freedom from doubt
- cessation
- n. a temporary or complete halt
- chary
- adj. watchful, cautious, extremely shy
- chimerical
- adj. fanciful, imaginary, impossible
- circuitous
- adj. indirect, roundabout
- circumvent
- v. to go around; avoid
- cloying
- adj. sickly sweet; excessive
- coagulate
- v. to clot; to cause to thicken
- cogent
- adj. logically forceful, compelling, convincing
- colloquial
- adj. characteristic of informal speech
- commute
- v. to change a penalty to a less severe one
- complacent
- adj. self-satisfied, smug
- compliant
- adj. submissive, yielding
- concomitant
- adj. existing concurrently
- concord
- n. agreement
- condole
- v. to grieve; to express sympathy
- conflagration
- n. big, destructive fire
- confluence
- n. the act of two things flowing together; the junction or meeting place where two things meet
- consanguineous
- adj. having the same lineage or ancestry; related by blood
- consternation
- n. an intense state of fear or dismay
- constituent
- n. component, part; citizen, voter
- constraint
- n. something that restricts or confines within prescribed bounds
- contemptuous
- adj. scornful, expressing contempt
- contentious
- adj. quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent
- contiguous
- adj. sharing a boundary; neighboring
- continence
- n. self-control, self-restraint
- convalesce
- v. to recover gradually from an illness
- convergence
- n. the state of separate elements joining or coming together
- coquette
- n. a flirtatious woman
- coterie
- n. an intimate group of persons with a similar purpose
- countervail
- v. to act or react with equal force
- covert
- adj. secretive, not openly shown
- cull
- v. to select, weed out
- cumulative
- adj. increasing, collective
- curt
- adj. abrupt, short with words