SAT Vocab C-D
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- diacritical
- adj. Marking a difference.
- decalogue
- n. The ten commandments.
- dilapidated
- pa. Fallen into decay or partial ruin.
- diplomatist
- n. One remarkable for tact and shrewd management.
- contemplate
- v. To consider thoughtfully.
- carouse
- v. To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
- coagulate
- v. To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment.
- decisive
- ad. Conclusive.
- disinherit
- v. To deprive of an inheritance.
- deficiency
- n. Lack or insufficiency.
- callow
- adj. Without experience of the world.
- divertible
- adj. Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
- cosmogony
- n. A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
- calculus
- n. A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
- credible
- adj. Believable.
- dragoon
- n. In the British army, a cavalryman.
- continuous
- adj. Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
- discernible
- adj. Perceivable.
- Christ
- n. A title of Jesus
- corpulent
- adj. Obese.
- contender
- n. One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry.
- carcass
- n. The dead body of an animal.
- commission
- v. To empower.
- deflect
- v. To cause to turn aside or downward.
- disunion
- n. Separation of relations or interests.
- conservatism
- n. Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things.
- domineer
- v. To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance.
- crevasse
- n. A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier.
- defiant
- adj. Characterized by bold or insolent opposition.
- diabolic
- adj. Characteristic of the devil.
- divination
- n. The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden.
- compliant
- adj. Yielding.
- coincidence
- n. A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident.
- circumspect
- adj. Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration.
- defendant
- n. A person against whom a suit is brought.
- clangor
- n. Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor.
- descendent
- adj. Proceeding downward.
- codicil
- n. A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
- disrobe
- v. To unclothe.
- distention
- n. Expansion.
- concurrent
- adj. Occurring or acting together.
- conjugate
- adj. Joined together in pairs.
- datum
- n. A premise, starting-point, or given fact.
- distill
- v. To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation.
- culprit
- n. A guilty person.
- dimly
- adv. Obscurely.
- dissolve
- v. To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture.
- disconnect
- v. To undo or dissolve the connection or association of.
- curio
- n. A piece of bric-a-brac.
- conservatory
- n. An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation.
- collapse
- v. To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail.
- deist
- n. One who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation.
- divest
- v. To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment.
- deform
- v. To disfigure.
- desiccant
- n. Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
- crustaceous
- adj. Having a crust-like shell.
- disclaim
- v. To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to.
- cabinet
- n. The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
- conclusive
- adj. Sufficient to convince or decide.
- donor
- n. One who makes a donation or present.
- decameter
- n. A length of ten meters.
- centurion
- n. A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army.
- claimant
- n. One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
- deficient
- adj. Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount.
- complacent
- adj. Pleased or satisfied with oneself.
- continuity
- n. Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development.
- decimate
- v. To destroy a measurable or large proportion of.
- cygnet
- n. A young swan.
- comparable
- adj. Fit to be compared.
- difference
- n. Dissimilarity in any respect.
- cite
- v. To refer to specifically.
- cranium
- n. The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain.
- carnivorous
- adj. Eating or living on flesh.
- comely
- adj. Handsome.
- cadence
- n. Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.
- collision
- n. Violent contact.
- disrupt
- v. To burst or break asunder.
- contrive
- v. To manage or carry through by some device or scheme.
- cipher
- v. To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing)
- distrust
- n. Lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person.
- diagnose
- v. To distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena.
- contaminate
- v. To pollute.
- definite
- adj. Having an exact signification or positive meaning.
- cat-o-nine-tails
- n. An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
- convex
- adj. Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle.
- cursory
- adj. Rapid and superficial.
- culvert
- n. Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
- deviltry
- n. Wanton and malicious mischief.
- complaisant
- adj. Agreeable.
- contrite
- adj. Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
- cycloid
- adj. Like a circle.
- decorous
- adj. Suitable for the occasion or circumstances.
- Darwinism
- n. The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms.
- didactic
- adj. Pertaining to teaching.
- depress
- v. To press down.
- disputation
- n. Verbal controversy.
- dispel
- v. To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions.
- coronet
- n. Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign.
- cornice
- n. An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling.
- contributor
- n. One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
- confront
- v. To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles.
- donator
- n. One who makes a donation or present.
- declension
- n. The change of endings in nouns and adj. to express their different relations of gender.
- disparity
- n. Inequality.
- choral
- adj. Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
- critique
- n. A criticism or critical review.
- cogent
- adj. Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience.
- distemper
- n. A disease or malady.
- dilettante
- n. A superficial amateur.
- comport
- v. To conduct or behave (oneself).
- chasten
- v. To purify by affliction.
- ceremonious
- adj. Observant of ritual.
- disseminate
- v. To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown.
- centiliter
- n. A hundredth of a liter.
- compulsory
- adj. Forced.
- consistency
- n. A state of permanence.
- demolish
- v. To annihilate.
- disobedient
- adj. Neglecting or refusing to obey.
- caustic
- adj. Sarcastic and severe.
- dramatist
- n. One who writes plays.
- deplete
- v. To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste.
- consulate
- n. The place in which a consul transacts official business.
- depression
- n. A falling of the spirits.
- discussion
- n. Debate.
- calorie
- n. Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade.
- decapitate
- v. To behead.
- diplomat
- n. A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another.
- conscientious
- adj. Governed by moral standard.
- collusion
- n. A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
- disregard
- v. To take no notice of.
- disjunctive
- adj. Helping or serving to disconnect or separate.
- competent
- adj. Qualified.
- collective
- adj. Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
- check
- v. To hold back.
- counterfeit
- adj. Made to resemble something else.
- dissipate
- v. To disperse or disappear.
- cosmology
- n. The general science of the universe.
- coronation
- n. The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch.
- dominate
- v. To influence controllingly.
- cohere
- v. To stick together.
- comprehensible
- adj. Intelligible.
- confidence
- n. The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another.
- consolidate
- v. To combine into one body or system.
- dearth
- n. Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.
- complicity
- n. Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer.
- confident
- adj. Assured.
- coincident
- adj. Taking place at the same time.
- component
- n. A constituent element or part.
- covey
- n. A flock of quails or partridges.
- diurnal
- adj. Daily.
- corrigible
- adj. Capable of reformation.
- decagram
- n. A weight of 10 grams.
- depth
- n. Deepness.
- cauterize
- v. To burn or sear as with a heated iron.
- convertible
- adj. Interchangeable.
- clarion
- n. A small shrill trumpet or bugle.
- criterion
- n. A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion.
- drought
- n. Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither.
- corruptible
- adj. Open to bribery.
- dissonance
- n. Discord.
- contingent
- adj. Not predictable.
- commissariat
- n. The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
- countercharge
- v. To accuse in return.
- distinction
- n. A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies.
- drainage
- n. The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc.
- disapprove
- v. To regard with blame.
- demonstrate
- v. To prove indubitably.
- confederacy
- n. A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid.
- compulsion
- n. Coercion.
- disinfect
- v. To remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases.
- desultory
- adj. Not connected with what precedes.
- contradiction
- n. The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said.
- disavow
- v. To disclaim responsibility for.
- creed
- n. A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief.
- dispossess
- v. To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
- darkling
- adv. Blindly.
- covenant
- n. An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
- deport
- v. To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony.
- Catholicism
- n. The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church.
- distort
- v. To twist into an unnatural or irregular form.
- coercive
- adj. Serving or tending to force.
- dignitary
- n. One who holds high rank.
- catastrophe
- n. Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity.
- contribution
- n. The act of giving for a common purpose.
- centenary
- adj. Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years.
- collector
- n. One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
- diligence
- n. Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken.
- cower
- v. To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
- contemporaneous
- adj. Living, occurring, or existing at the same time.
- decent
- adj. Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
- digress
- v. To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter.
- derivation
- n. That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning.
- canto
- n. One of the divisions of an extended poem.
- connote
- v. To mean; signify.
- cajole
- v. To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.
- deteriorate
- v. To grow worse.
- distensible
- adj. Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction.
- circumnavigate
- v. To sail quite around.
- deforest
- v. To clear of forests.
- characteristic
- n. A distinctive feature.
- confiscate
- v. To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury.
- caret
- n. A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
- disown
- v. To refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as connected with oneself.
- commute
- v. To put something, especially something less severe, in place of.
- dendrology
- n. The natural history of trees.
- derelict
- adj. Neglectful of obligation.
- concordance
- n. Harmony.
- comparison
- n. Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
- corporate
- adj. Belonging to a corporation.
- dissection
- n. The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal.
- concord
- n. Harmony.
- conquer
- v. To overcome by force.
- distiller
- n. One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors.
- cohesive
- adj. Having the property of consistency.
- disenfranchise
- v. To deprive of any right privilege or power
- divulge
- v. To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret.
- convalescent
- adj. Recovering health after sickness.
- disrepute
- n. A bad name or character.
- defalcate
- v. To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
- census
- n. An official numbering of the people of a country or district.
- captivate
- v. To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
- crystallize
- v. To bring together or give fixed shape to.
- disquiet
- v. To deprive of peace or tranquillity.
- cosmic
- adj. Pertaining to the universe.
- clamorous
- adj. Urgent in complaint or demand.
- capitulate
- v. To surrender or stipulate terms.
- condescend
- v. To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors.
- contiguity
- n. Proximity.
- crockery
- n. Earthenware made from baked clay.
- corpuscle
- n. A minute particle of matter.
- degrade
- v. To take away honors or position from.
- comparative
- adj. Relative.
- discreet
- adj. Judicious.
- discolor
- v. To stain.
- callosity
- n. The state of being hard and insensible.
- creak
- n. A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
- coalescence
- n. The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
- depositor
- n. One who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited.
- crustacean
- adj. Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc.
- cadenza
- n. An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
- conjunction
- n. The state of being joined together, or the things so joined.
- decamp
- v. To leave suddenly or unexpectedly.
- deride
- v. To ridicule.
- dehydrate
- v. To deprive of water.
- counterpart
- n. Something taken with another for the completion of either.
- converge
- v. To cause to incline and approach nearer together.
- decaliter
- n. A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters.
- creamery
- n. A butter-making establishment.
- demagogue
- n. An unprincipled politician.
- commingle
- v. To blend.
- crusade
- n. Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle.
- declamation
- n. A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public.
- courageous
- adj. Brave.
- denomination
- n. A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline.
- diversity
- n. Dissimilitude.
- cathode
- n. The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
- distrainor
- n. One who subjects a person to distress.
- docket
- n. The registry of judgments of a court.
- compressible
- adj. Capable of being pressed into smaller compass.
- diplomacy
- n. Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters.
- drowsy
- adj. Heavy with sleepiness.
- coquette
- n. A flirt.
- curator
- n. A person having charge as of a library or museum.
- conformable
- adj. Harmonious.
- Calvinism
- n. The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin.
- convulsion
- n. A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body.
- cessation
- n. Discontinuance, as of action or motion.
- defensible
- adj. Capable of being maintained or justified.
- composure
- n. Calmness.
- doe
- n. The female of the deer.
- chameleon
- adj. Changeable in appearance.
- cataclysm
- n. Any overwhelming flood of water.
- corporal
- adj. Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
- comestible
- adj. Fit to be eaten.
- clemency
- n. Mercy.
- dissemble
- v. To hide by pretending something different.
- cosmopolitan
- adj. Common to all the world.
- deference
- n. Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment.
- contagion
- n. The communication of disease from person to person.
- chivalry
- n. The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
- cursive
- adj. Writing in which the letters are joined together.
- denizen
- n. Inhabitant.
- despite
- prep. In spite of.
- cholera
- n. An acute epidemic disease.
- concurrence
- n. Agreement.
- clandestine
- adj. Surreptitious.
- constellation
- n. An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.
- daring
- adj. Brave.
- decasyllable
- n. A line of ten syllables.
- convoy
- n. A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation.
- dissatisfy
- v. To displease.
- dogma
- n. A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority.
- dismissal
- n. Displacement by authority from an office or an employment.
- divert
- v. To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
- despicable
- adj. Contemptible.
- corrosion
- n. Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
- compute
- v. To ascertain by mathematical calculation.
- default
- n. The neglect or omission of a legal requirement.
- chastity
- n. Sexual or moral purity.
- doubly
- adv. In twofold degree or extent.
- diplomatic
- adj. Characterized by special tact in negotiations.
- deformity
- n. A disfigurement.
- despondent
- adj. Disheartened.
- dowry
- n. The property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage.
- derive
- v. To deduce, as from a premise.
- dogmatic
- adj. Making statements without argument or evidence.
- denude
- v. To strip the covering from.
- debut
- n. A first appearance in society or on the stage.
- disciple
- n. One who believes the teaching of another, or who adopts and follows some doctrine.
- divulgence
- n. A divulging.
- diffusible
- adj. Spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly.
- corrode
- v. To ruin or destroy little by little.
- disreputable
- adj. Dishonorable or disgraceful.
- dentifrice
- n. Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.
- consumption
- n. Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc.
- deliquesce
- v. To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air.
- calumny
- n. Slander.
- contradictory
- adj. Inconsistent with itself.
- dilatory
- adj. Tending to cause delay.
- caucus
- n. A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
- commentary
- n. A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work.
- canine
- adj. Characteristic of a dog.
- deviate
- v. To take a different course.
- cognizant
- adj. Taking notice.
- demonstrator
- n. One who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner.
- crevice
- n. A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces.
- complex
- adj. Complicated.
- disfavor
- n. Disregard.
- docile
- adj. Easy to manage.
- deposition
- n. Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court.
- crass
- adj. Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
- clothier
- n. One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
- confluent
- n. A stream that unites with another.
- culpable
- adj. Guilty.
- chromatic
- adj. Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
- drudgery
- n. Hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation.
- disobedience
- n. Neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction.
- doleful
- adj. Melancholy.
- colloquial
- adj. Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
- demeanor
- n. Deportment.
- curtsy
- n. A downward movement of the body by bending the knees.
- cosmography
- n. The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology.
- compliment
- v. To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise.
- diaphanous
- adj. Transparent.
- decagon
- n. A figure with ten sides and ten angles.
- distraught
- adj. Bewildered.
- complication
- n. An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner.
- debase
- v. To lower in character or virtue.
- conservative
- adj. Adhering to the existing order of things.
- coagulant
- adj. Producing coagulation.
- discountenance
- v. To look upon with disfavor.
- connubial
- adj. Pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
- dissolute
- adj. Lewd.
- censorious
- adj. Judging severely or harshly.
- cabal
- n. A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.
- coniferous
- adj. Cone-bearing trees.
- dormant
- adj. Being in a state of or resembling sleep.
- decimal
- adj. Founded on the number 10.
- constituent
- n. One who has the right to vote at an election.
- Decameron
- n. A volume consisting of ten parts or books.
- cull
- v. To pick or sort out from the rest.
- disagree
- v. To be opposite in opinion.
- donate
- v. To bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause.
- defraud
- v. To deprive of something dishonestly.
- disappoint
- v. To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of.
- duplicity
- n. Double-dealing.
- dislocate
- v. To put out of proper place or order.
- desperado
- n. One without regard for law or life.
- caricature
- n. a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted.
- clarify
- v. To render intelligible.
- dissentient
- n. One who disagrees.
- chiffon
- n. A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
- dermatology
- n. The branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases.
- conjecture
- n. A guess.
- confidant
- n. One to whom secrets are entrusted.
- complaisance
- n. Politeness.
- colossus
- n. Any strikingly great person or object.
- depreciate
- v. To lessen the worth of.
- crag
- n. A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge.
- clairvoyance
- n. Intuitive sagacity or perception.
- contraposition
- n. A placing opposite.
- deportment
- n. Demeanor.
- discipline
- v. To train to obedience.
- consecutive
- adj. Following in uninterrupted succession.
- choleric
- adj. Easily provoked to anger.
- drastic
- adj. Acting vigorously.
- delusion
- n. Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring.
- commemorate
- v. To serve as a remembrance of.
- catholicity
- n. Universal prevalence or acceptance.
- disconsolate
- adj. Grief-stricken.
- culinary
- adj. Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen.
- differentia
- n. Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species.
- demurrage
- n. the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing.
- discomfort
- n. The state of being positively uncomfortable.
- clearance
- n. A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.
- clement
- adj. Compassionate.
- discord
- n. Absence of harmoniousness.
- dead-heat
- n. A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner.
- classify
- v. To arrange in a class or classes on the basis of observed resemblance's and differences.
- deleterious
- adj. Hurtful, morally or physically.
- devise
- v. To invent.
- corruption
- n. Loss of purity or integrity.
- contagious
- adj. Transmitting disease.
- consort
- n. A companion or associate.
- displace
- v. To put out of the proper or accustomed place.
- contumacy
- n. Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
- dauntless
- adj. Fearless.
- diffusion
- n. Dispersion.
- contingency
- n. Possibility of happening.
- deplorable
- adj. Contemptible.
- disavowal
- n. Denial.
- diminution
- n. Reduction.
- dissect
- v. To cut apart or to pieces.
- contort
- v. To twist into a misshapen form.
- dejection
- n. Melancholy.
- distrain
- v. To subject a person to distress.
- disinfectant
- n. A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases.
- deceitful
- adj. Fraudulent.
- captious
- adj. Hypercritical.
- coxswain
- n. One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer.
- confessor
- n. A spiritual advisor.
- discriminate
- v. To draw a distinction.
- close-hauled
- adj. Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
- coerce
- v. To force.
- cohesion
- n. Consistency.
- death's-head
- n. A human skull as a symbol of death.
- dramatize
- v. To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner.
- denounce
- v. To point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium.
- congeal
- v. To coagulate.
- convergent
- adj. Tending to one point.
- comprehension
- n. Ability to know.
- colloquy
- n. Conversation.
- defamation
- n. Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another.
- Calvary
- n. The place where Christ was crucified.
- detriment
- n. Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss.
- candor
- n. The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
- deciduous
- adj. Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc.
- derision
- n. Ridicule.
- dissuasion
- n. The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading.
- controller
- n. One who or that which regulates or directs.
- correlative
- adj. Mutually involving or implying one another.
- dubious
- adj. Doubtful.
- day-man
- n. A day-laborer.
- circumference
- n. The boundary-line of a circle.
- came
- n. A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
- disarrange
- v. To throw out of order.
- causal
- adj. Indicating or expressing a cause.
- consonant
- adj. Being in agreement or harmony with.
- delude
- v. To mislead the mind or judgment of.
- duplex
- adj. Having two parts.
- decoy
- n. Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation.
- Christendom
- n. That part of the world where Christianity is generally professed.
- delectation
- n. Delight.
- competitive
- adj. characterized by rivalry.
- collegian
- n. A college student.
- disqualify
- v. To debar.
- differential
- adj. Distinctive.
- conveyance
- n. That by which anything is transported.
- contrivance
- n. The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
- coincide
- v. To correspond.
- conduit
- n. A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid.
- capillary
- n. A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
- dissipation
- n. The state of being dispersed or scattered.
- deterrent
- adj. Hindering from action through fear.
- convivial
- adj. Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking.
- chattel
- n. Any article of personal property.
- circumscribe
- v. To confine within bounds.
- demulcent
- n. Any application soothing to an irritable surface
- dissentious
- adj. Contentious.
- deprecate
- v. To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
- control
- v. To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
- depository
- n. A place where anything is kept in safety.
- disburden
- v. To disencumber.
- donee
- n. A person to whom a donation is made.
- cameo
- n. Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
- conceit
- n. Self-flattering opinion.
- divisor
- n. That by which a number or quantity is divided.
- constable
- n. An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
- contemporary
- adj. Living or existing at the same time.
- dissension
- n. Angry or violent difference of opinion.
- digraph
- n. A union of two characters representing a single sound.
- diphthong
- n. The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds.
- desistance
- n. Cessation.
- consummate
- v. To bring to completion.
- cryptogram
- n. Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.
- dialect
- n. Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district.
- consanguineous
- adj. Descended from the same parent or ancestor.
- commodity
- n. Something that is bought and sold.
- devious
- adj. Out of the common or regular track.
- contemptible
- adj. Worthy of scorn or disdain.
- decrepit
- adj. Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity.
- casualty
- n. A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
- corps
- n. A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together.
- cynicism
- n. Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value.
- cataract
- n. Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness.
- disarm
- v. To deprive of weapons.
- conflagration
- n. A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like.
- calculable
- adj. That may be estimated by reckoning.
- corroboration
- n. Confirmation.
- doublet
- n. One of a pair of like things.
- conjoin
- v. To unite.
- despot
- n. An absolute and irresponsible monarch.
- descent
- n. The act of moving or going downward.
- declamatory
- adj. A full and formal style of utterance.
- degenerate
- v. To become worse or inferior.
- charlatan
- n. A quack.
- dilute
- v. To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something.
- congest
- v. To collect into a mass.
- detract
- v. To take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation.
- cosmopolitanism
- n. A cosmopolitan character.
- credence
- n. Belief.
- distend
- v. To stretch out or expand in every direction.
- corporeal
- adj. Of a material nature; physical.
- corpse
- n. A dead body.
- dissimilar
- adj. Different.
- contraband
- n. Trade forbidden by law or treaty.
- dialogue
- n. A formal conversation in which two or more take part.
- disbeliever
- n. One who refuses to believe.
- convolution
- n. A winding motion.
- concussion
- n. A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
- desert
- v. To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned
- christen
- v. To name in baptism.
- characterize
- v. To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities.
- colleague
- n. An associate in professional employment.
- conceive
- v. To form an idea, mental image or thought of.
- campaign
- n. A complete series of connected military operations.
- cosmetic
- adj. Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion.
- convolve
- v. To move with a circling or winding motion.
- conformity
- n. Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
- diverse
- adj. Capable of various forms.
- canary
- adj. Of a bright but delicate yellow.
- disallow
- v. To withhold permission or sanction.
- designate
- v. To select or appoint, as by authority.
- covert
- adj. Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
- disciplinary
- adj. Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority.
- depopulate
- v. To remove the inhabitants from.
- collaborate
- v. To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits.
- complement
- v. To make complete.
- duet
- n. A composition for two voices or instruments.
- courser
- n. A fleet and spirited horse.
- competence
- n. Adequate qualification or capacity.
- candid
- adj. Straightforward.
- duteous
- adj. Showing submission to natural superiors.
- duration
- n. The period of time during which anything lasts.
- disillusion
- v. To disenchant.
- deprave
- v. To render bad, especially morally bad.
- devout
- adj. Religious.
- denouement
- n. That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up.
- conscious
- adj. Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks.
- comical
- adj. Funny.
- constrict
- v. To bind.
- diffident
- adj. Affected or possessed with self-distrust.
- crucible
- n. A trying and purifying test or agency.
- cudgel
- n. A short thick stick used as a club.
- constituency
- n. The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
- Calvinize
- v. To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism.
- connoisseur
- n. A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art.
- curt
- adj. Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.
- collide
- v. To meet and strike violently.
- diffidence
- n. Self-distrust.
- delicacy
- n. That which is agreeable to a fine taste.
- discrepant
- adj. Opposite.
- demonstrable
- adj. Capable of positive proof.
- confer
- v. To bestow.
- connive
- v. To be in collusion.
- chancery
- n. A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
- divagation
- n. Digression.
- derrick
- n. An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights.
- defer
- v. To delay or put off to some other time.
- deify
- v. To regard or worship as a god.
- convenience
- n. Fitness, as of time or place.
- diversion
- n. Pastime.
- denunciation
- n. The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment.
- compress
- v. To press together or into smaller space.
- derivative
- adj. Coming or acquired from some origin.
- deter
- v. To frighten away.
- domicile
- n. The place where one lives.
- diatribe
- n. A bitter or malicious criticism.
- cajolery
- n. Delusive speech.
- commitment
- n. The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping.
- convulse
- v. To cause spasms in.
- clumsy
- adj. Awkward of movement.
- disburse
- v. To pay out or expend, as money from a fund. discard v. To reject.
- collier
- n. One who works in a coal-mine.
- demerit
- n. A mark for failure or bad conduct.
- conscript
- v. To force into military service.
- deceit
- n. Falsehood.
- consensus
- n. A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons.
- copious
- adj. Plenteous.
- curtail
- v. To cut off or cut short.
- creamy
- adj. Resembling or containing cream.
- conspicuous
- adj. Clearly visible.
- desist
- v. To cease from action.
- discomfit
- v. To put to confusion.
- commotion
- n. A disturbance or violent agitation.
- contravene
- v. To prevent or obstruct the operation of.
- demobilize
- v. To disband, as troops.
- deduce
- v. To derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles.
- decorate
- v. To embellish.
- dwindle
- v. To diminish or become less.
- dictum
- n. A positive utterance.
- comprehensive
- adj. Large in scope or content.
- concede
- v. To surrender.
- consecrate
- v. To set apart as sacred.
- countervail
- v. To offset.
- disengage
- v. To become detached.
- domination
- n. Control by the exercise of power or constituted authority.
- dispensation
- n. That which is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power.
- colloquialism
- n. Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation.
- detest
- v. To dislike or hate with intensity.
- despond
- v. To lose spirit, courage, or hope.
- cynosure
- n. That to which general interest or attention is directed.
- cynical
- adj. Exhibiting moral skepticism.
- continuation
- n. Prolongation.
- dun
- v. To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment.
- dissolution
- n. A breaking up of a union of persons.
- centimeter
- n. A length of one hundredth of a meter.
- dragnet
- n. A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water.
- degradation
- n. Diminution, as of strength or magnitude.
- diatomic
- adj. Containing only two atoms.
- descendant
- n. One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc.
- dastard
- n. A base coward.
- dutiful
- adj. Obedient.
- dominant
- adj. Conspicuously prominent.
- cession
- n. Surrender, as of possessions or rights.
- contiguous
- adj. Touching or joining at the edge or boundary.
- conversant
- adj. Thoroughly informed.
- dissertation
- n. Thesis.
- discontinuance
- n. Interruption or intermission.
- dexterity
- n. Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work.
- defensive
- adj. Carried on in resistance to aggression.
- contuse
- v. To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
- coercion
- n. Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
- duckling
- n. A young duck.
- competitor
- n. A rival.
- dishabille
- n. Undress or negligent attire.
- cornucopia
- n. The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity.
- chronometer
- n. A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.
- decipher
- v. To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible.
- delirious
- adj. Raving.
- consonance
- n. The state or quality of being in accord with.
- counter-claim
- n. A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff.
- concur
- v. To agree.
- diagnosis
- n. Determination of the distinctive nature of a disease.
- defame
- v. To slander.
- conductible
- adj. Capable of being conducted or transmitted.
- dutiable
- adj. Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty.
- disservice
- n. An ill turn.
- derisible
- adj. Open to ridicule.
- counterbalance
- v. To oppose with an equal force.
- chagrin
- n. Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
- cantonment
- n. The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
- cupidity
- n. Avarice.
- complicate
- v. To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with.
- carnage
- n. Massacre.
- capacious
- adj. Roomy.
- compensate
- v. To remunerate.
- deluge
- v. To overwhelm with a flood of water.
- denote
- v. To designate by word or mark.
- canon
- n. Any rule or law.
- debatable
- adj. Subject to contention or dispute.
- continuance
- n. Permanence.
- chronology
- n. The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events.
- dedication
- n. The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
- disyllable
- n. A word of two syllables.
- courtesy
- n. Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
- desperate
- adj. Resorted to in a last extremity, or as if prompted by utter despair.
- convalesce
- v. To recover after a sickness.
- deject
- v. To dishearten.
- durance
- n. Confinement.
- consumptive
- adj. Designed for gradual destruction.
- demented
- adj. Insane.
- complacence
- n. Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings.
- chastise
- v. To subject to punitive measures.
- carnal
- adj. Sensual.
- carrion
- n. Dead and putrefying flesh.
- committal
- n. The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being
- deplore
- v. To regard with grief or sorrow.
- debonair
- adj. Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner.
- curable
- adj. Capable of being remedied or corrected.
- conciliate
- v. To obtain the friendship of.
- conjugal
- adj. Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons.
- delectable
- adj. Delightful to the taste or to the senses.
- depreciation
- n. A lowering in value or an underrating in worth.
- dogmatize
- v. To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence.
- cardiac
- adj. Pertaining to the heart.
- cosmos
- n. The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement.
- crematory
- adj. A place for cremating dead bodies.
- conversion
- n. Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another.
- conferee
- n. A person with whom another confers.
- condensation
- n. The act or process of making dense or denser.
- castigate
- v. To punish.
- disfigure
- v. To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of.
- cereal
- adj. Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds.
- course
- n. Line of motion or direction.
- caprice
- n. A whim.
- confide
- v. To reveal in trust or confidence.
- differentiate
- v. To acquire a distinct and separate character.
- dilemma
- n. A situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary.
- detrude
- v. To push down forcibly.
- continence
- n. Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion.
- dolor
- n. Lamentation.
- ductile
- adj. Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread.
- divergent
- adj. Tending in different directions.
- contemptuous
- adj. Disdainful.
- contusion
- n. A bruise.
- citadel
- n. Any strong fortress.
- dyne
- n. The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
- descry
- v. To discern.
- confluence
- n. The place where streams meet.
- conducive
- adj. Contributing to an end.
- countryman
- n. A rustic.
- convalescence
- n. The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
- conspirator
- n. One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose.
- congregate
- v. To bring together into a crowd.
- denominate
- v. To give a name or epithet to.
- dissuade
- v. To change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel, or pleading.
- corroborate
- v. To strengthen, as proof or conviction.
- coalition
- n. Combination in a body or mass.
- domain
- n. A sphere or field of action or interest.
- concerto
- n. A musical composition.
- cardinal
- adj. Of prime or special importance.
- coddle
- v. To treat as a baby or an invalid.
- conformation
- n. General structure, form, or outline.
- demonstrative
- adj. Inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts.
- correlate
- v. To put in some relation of connection or correspondence.
- circumlocution
- n. Indirect or roundabout expression.
- conspire
- v. To plot.
- decency
- n. Moral fitness.
- dismount
- v. To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like.
- concession
- n. Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim.
- chateau
- n. A castle or manor-house.
- discover
- v. To get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived.
- disappear
- v. To cease to exist, either actually or for the time being.
- conciliatory
- adj. Tending to reconcile.
- disinterested
- adj. Impartial.
- ceremonial
- adj. Characterized by outward form or ceremony.
- conjugation
- n. The state or condition of being joined together.
- deponent
- adj. Laying down.
- chaos
- n. Any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion.
- cognate
- adj. Akin.
- degeneracy
- n. A becoming worse.
- counteract
- v. To act in opposition to.
- compression
- n. Constraint, as by force or authority.
- dialectician
- n. A logician.
- conformance
- n. The act or state or conforming.
- corrosive
- n. That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
- dendroid
- adj. Like a tree.
- dominance
- n. Ascendancy.
- confederate
- n. One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement.
- consignor
- n. One who entrusts.
- console
- v. To comfort.
- compunction
- n. Remorseful feeling.
- despair
- n. Utter hopelessness and despondency.
- discursive
- adj. Passing from one subject to another.
- casual
- adj. Accidental, by chance.
- devilry
- n. Malicious mischief.
- consternation
- n. Panic.
- credulous
- adj. Easily deceived.
- caste
- n. The division of society on artificial grounds.
- craving
- n. A vehement desire.
- divisible
- adj. Capable of being separated into parts.
- censor
- n. An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication.
- congenial
- adj. Having kindred character or tastes.
- dissever
- v. To divide.
- drachma
- n. A modern and an ancient Greek coin.
- chasm
- n. A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface.
- discredit
- v. To injure the reputation of.
- consignee
- n. A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.
- cartridge
- n. A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
- despotism
- n. Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part.
- dolorous
- adj. Expressing or causing sorrow or pain.
- denominator
- n. Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided.
- circulate
- v. To disseminate.
- determinate
- adj. Definitely limited or fixed.
- condolence
- n. Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune.
- condense
- v. To abridge.
- cadaverous
- adj. Resembling a corpse.
- Canaanite
- n. A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.
- counting-house
- n. A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
- demagnetize
- v. To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
- decapod
- adj. Ten-footed or ten-armed.
- distillation
- n. Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile.
- clan
- n. A tribe.
- cabalism
- n. Superstitious devotion to one's religion.
- convene
- v. To summon or cause to assemble.
- domesticity
- n. Life in or fondness for one's home and family.
- deceive
- v. To mislead by or as by falsehood.
- conduce
- v. To bring about.
- destitute
- adj. Poverty-stricken.
- disparage
- v. To regard or speak of slightingly.
- dissent
- n. Disagreement.
- confinement
- n. Restriction within limits or boundaries.
- cantata
- n. A choral composition.
- cede
- v. To pass title to.
- dilate
- v. To enlarge in all directions.
- dissonant
- adj. Harsh or disagreeable in sound.
- declarative
- adj. Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation.
- corollary
- n. A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration.
- delineate
- v. To represent by sketch or diagram.
- deity
- n. A god, goddess, or divine person.
- cant
- v. To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
- collapsible
- adj. That may or can collapse.
- consign
- v. To entrust.
- divinity
- n. The quality or character of being godlike.
- defray
- v. To make payment for.
- confectionery
- n. The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
- cacophony
- n. A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
- deign
- v. To deem worthy of notice or account.
- dishonest
- adj. Untrustworthy.
- consul
- n. An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
- conscience
- n. The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct.
- demise
- n. Death.
- caption
- n. A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc.
- deface
- v. To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of.
- comprise
- v. To consist of.
- cartilage
- n. An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
- caitiff
- adj. Cowardly.
- determination
- n. The act of deciding.
- dolesome
- adj. Melancholy.
- contumacious
- adj. Rebellious.