PSAT: C's
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- Colloquial
- Characteristic of informal speech
- Construe
- To explain or interpret
- Complacent
- Self-satisfied, smug
- Congeal
- To become thick or solid, as a liquid freezing
- Chary
- Watchful, cautious, extremely shy
- Cartography
- Science of art of making maps
- Capricious
- Impulsive, whimsical, without much thought
- Chaotic
- Extremely disorderly
- Collusion
- Collaboration, complicity, conspiracy
- Corroborate
- To confirm, verify
- Compensate
- To repay or reimburse
- Caucus
- Smaller group within an organization; a meeting of such a group
- Cajole
- to flatter, coax, persuade
- Clairvoyant
- Having ESP, psychic
- Conundrum
- Riddle, puzzle or problem with no solution
- Concave
- Curving inward
- Cursory
- Hastily done, superficial
- Conscientious
- Governed by conscience, careful and thorough
- Charlatan
- Quack, fake
- Caustic
- Biting, sarcastic; able to burn
- Cupidity
- Greed
- Complicity
- Knowing partnership in wrongdoing
- Callous
- Thick-skinned, insensitive
- Conjecture
- Speculation, prediction
- Commodious
- Roomy, spacious
- Caricature
- Exaggerated portrait, cartoon
- Candor
- Honesty of expression
- Covert
- Hidden; secret
- Cryptic
- Puzzling
- Condone
- To pardon or forgive; overlook, justify, or excuse a fault
- Conduit
- Tube, pipe, or similar passage
- Culpable
- Guilty, responsible for wrong
- Canny
- Smart; founded on common sense
- Catholic
- Universal; broad and comprehensive
- Credulous
- Gullible, trusting
- Circuitous
- Roundabout
- Contrite
- Deeply sorrowful and repentant for a wrong
- Coherent
- Intelligible, lucid, understandable
- Citadel
- fortress or stronghold
- Callow
- Immature, lacking sophistication
- Cosmetic
- Relating to beauty; affecting the surface of something
- Convoluted
- Twisted, complicated, involved
- Cloister
- To confine, seclude
- Coterie
- Small group of persons with a similar purpose
- Contentious
- Quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent
- Commute
- To change a penalty to a less severe one
- Covext
- Curved outward
- Culmination
- Climax, final stage
- Convene
- To meet, come together, assemble
- Creed
- Statement of belief or principle
- COnventional
- Typical, customary, commonplace
- Credence
- Acceptance of something as true or real
- Conciliatory
- Overcoming distrust or hostility
- Commensurate
- Proportional
- Civil
- Polite; relating to citizens
- Chide
- To scold, express disapproval
- Curt
- Abrupt , blunt
- Censorious
- Severely critical
- Curtail
- To shorten
- Champion
- to defend or support
- Chastise
- To Punish, discipline, scold
- Chagrin
- Shame, embarrassment, humiliation
- Consensus
- Unanimity, agreement of opinion or attitude
- Communicable
- Transmittable
- Concede
- To yield, admit
- Coalesce
- To grow together or cause to unite as one
- Curmudgeon
- Cranky person
- Concur
- To agree
- Cessation
- Temporary or complete halt
- Consecrate
- To declare sacred; dedicate to a goal
- Circumspect
- Cautious, wary
- Copious
- Abundant, plentiful
- Chromatic
- Relating to color
- Cede
- To surrender possession of something
- Contravene
- To contradict, dent, act contrary to
- Circumference
- To encircle; set limits on, confine
- Compunction
- Feeling or uneasiness caused by guilt or regret
- Clamor
- To make a noisy outcry; a noisy outry
- Clandestine
- Secretive
- Covet
- To desire strongly something possessed by another
- Coddle
- To baby, treat indulgently
- Cogent
- Logically forceful, compelling, convincing
- Consolidate
- To combine, incorporate
- Collateral
- Accompanying
- Clemency
- Merciful Leniency
- Craven
- Cowardly
- Conglomerate
- Collected group of varied things
- Consolation
- Something providing comfort or solace for a loss or hardship
- Confound
- To battle, perplex
- Capitulate
- To submit completely, surrender
- Cuisine
- Characteristic style of cooking
- Congenial
- Similar in tastes and habits
- Continence
- Self-control, self-restraint
- Catalyst
- Something causing change without being changed
- Constrained
- Forced, compelled; confined, restrained
- Conflagration
- Big, destructive fire
- Cosmopolitan
- Sophisticated, free from local prejudices
- Cynic
- Person who distrusts the motives of others
- Cacophony
- jarring, unpleasant noise
- Crass
- Crude, unrefined
- Complaint
- Submissive and yielding
- Complement
- To complete, perfect
- Convalescence
- Gradual recovery after an illness
- Castigate
- To punish, chastise, criticize severly
- Coerce
- To compel by force or intimidation