SAT - C
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- cabal
- a small secret group
- cache
- a hiding place
- cacophoy
- harsh or unpleasant sound
- cadaverous
- pale, ghostly, corpselike
- caesura
- pause
- cajole
- to coax, persuade
- calamitous
- causing trouble or misery
- callow
- young and inexperienced
- calumny
- a false accusation, slander
- canard
- a false story
- candor
- honesty
- canny
- shrewd
- canvass
- to make a survey
- capacious
- spacious
- capitulate
- to surrender
- captious
- hard to please
- carapace
- shell, hard
- carnal
- sensual
- carouse
- to engage in a noisy, drunken party
- carrion
- decaying flesh
- carte blanche
- freedom to use one's own judgment
- cataclysm
- a violent change
- cathartic
- cleansing
- caustic
- sarcastic, severely critical
- cauterize
- to burn
- cavalcade
- a procession
- caveat
- a warning
- cavil
- to quibble, argue
- cavort
- to leap about, frolic
- celerity
- speed, swiftness
- centrifugal
- moving away from the center
- cerebration
- thinking, using one's brain
- certitude
- sureness, certainty
- cessation
- a stopping, a discontinuance
- chaff
- worthless matter
- chagrin
- embarassment
- charlatan
- a fake, quack
- charnel
- cemetery
- chary
- careful, cautious
- chattel
- slave
- chauvinism
- fanatical devotion to one's country, religion, sex, etc
- chicanery
- trickery
- chimerical
- imaginery, fantastic, unreal
- choleric
- easily angered
- churlish
- rude, illbred
- cipher
- person or thing of no value
- circumlocution
- roundabout way of speaking
- circumspect
- cautious, careful
- clangor
- harsh ringing sound
- clariou
- clear and shrill
- clemency
- mercy, leniency
- clout
- (colloquial) power, influence
- coadjutor
- assistant
- coalesce
- to blend, merge, fuse
- coffer
- a strongbox
- cogent
- convincing
- cogitate
- to think, consider carefully
- cognate
- related, relative
- collate
- to put together in order
- commodious
- roomy, spacious
- complacent
- self-satisfied
- complement
- to make whole, to complete
- complicity
- partnership in a wrongful act
- compulsory
- required
- compunction
- uneasiness; remorse
- conclave
- secret meeting
- concomitant
- accompanying, attending
- condign
- deserved, suitable
- congeal
- to freeze solid, to thicken
- congenial
- friendly, agreeable
- conjecture
- to guess
- conjugal
- pertaining to marriage
- connivance
- pretand ignorance of another's wrongdoing; conspiracy
- consanguinity
- close relationship
- consonant
- in agreement or harmony
- consternation
- sudden confusion, panic
- consummate
- to complete, perfect
- contemn
- to regard with scorn or contempt
- contemptuous
- scornful
- contentious
- ready to argue, quarrelsome
- contiguous
- nearby
- contretemps
- an embarassing occurence
- contrite
- sorrowful, penitent
- contumacious
- disobedient, obstinate
- contumely
- rudeness
- convalesce
- to recover from an illness
- conversant
- being familiar with
- convival
- sociable, friendly
- copious
- plentiful
- coquetry
- flirtaion
- corollary
- inference, deduction
- corpulent
- fat, fleshy
- corrugated
- wrinkled, ridged
- cortege
- funeral procession
- coterie
- close circle of friends
- countermand
- to cancel an order
- credulity
- readiness to believe, gullibility
- crone
- hag
- crotchety
- grouchy
- crucible
- a severe test or trial
- cudgel
- club
- cull
- to select, pick
- culpable
- blameworthy
- cupidity
- greed
- curry
- to try to win favor by flattery
- cursory
- superficial, hasty
- cynosure
- center of attention