Sparknotes' Sat Vocabulary - C

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Calamity

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An event with disastrous consequences

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Canny

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Shrewd, careful, circumspect, astute

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Carouse

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To party, celebrate

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Carp

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To annoy, pester, badger

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Catalyze

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To charge, inspire

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Cavort

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To leap about, to behave boisterously

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Cerebral

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Related to the intellect

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Chide

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To voice disapproval

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Circuitous

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Roundabout

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Circumscribed

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Marked off, bounded

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Circumvent

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To get around, bypass

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Cleave

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To stick together firmly

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Cloying

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Sickeningly sweet

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Coagulate

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To thicken, clot

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Coalesce

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To fuse into a whole

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Cognizant

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Aware, mindful, circumspect, canny, astute

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Collateral

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Secondary OR security for a debt

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Collusion

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Secret agreement, conspiracy

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Commensurate

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Corresponding in size or amount, proportionate

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Complicit

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Being an accomplice in a wrongful act

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Compunction

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Distress caused by feeling guilty

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Conciliatory

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Friendly, agreeable

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Concomitant

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Accompanying in a subordinate fashion

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Concord

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Harmonious agreement

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Condolence

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Expression of sympathy in sorrow

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Condone

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To pardon, deliberately overlook

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Confection

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A sweet, fancy food

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Confidant

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A person entrusted with secrets [Kayla in English]

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Confluence

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A gathering together

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Confound

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To frustrate or confuse

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Congeal

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To thicken into a solid, coagulate

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Congenial

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Pleasantly agreeable, conciliatory

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Connive

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To plot, scheme

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Consign

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To give something over to another's care

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Consonant

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In harmony

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Constituent

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An essential part

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Construe

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To interpret [Alucard in Dawn of Sorrow]

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Consummate

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To complete a deal

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Contemporaneous

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Existing during the same time

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Contentious

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Having a tendency to quarrel or dispute

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Contravene

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To contradict, oppose, violate

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Contrite

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Penitent, eager to be forgiven

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Contusion

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Bruise, injury

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Convene

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To call together

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Convention

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An assembly of people OR a rule, custom

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Convivial

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Characterized by feasting, drinking, merriment

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Copious

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Profuse, abundant

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Corpulence

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Extreme fatness

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Corroborate

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To support with evidence

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Cosmopolitan

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Sophisticated, worldly

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Covert

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Secretly engaged in, clandestine, surreptitious

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Credulity

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Readiness to believe [Mary Jane in Spider-Man 2]

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Culmination

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The climax toward which something progresses

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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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Cupidity

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Greed, strong desire

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Curt

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Abruptly and rudely short

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Curtail

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To lessen, reduce