SAT Master Word List #11 & #12

confrontation

N. act of facing someone or something; encounter, often hostile.

congenial

ADJ. pleasant; friendly.

congenital

ADJ. existing at birth.

conglomeration

N. mass of material sticking together.

congruent

ADJ. in agreement; corresponding.

conjecture

V. surmise; guess.

conjure

V. summon a devil; practice magic; imagine or invent.

connivance

N. assistance; pretense of ignorance of something wrong; permission to offend.

connoisseur

N. person competent to act as a judge of art, etc.; a lover of an art.

connotation

N. suggested or implied meaning of an expression.

conscientious

ADJ. scrupulous; careful.

consecrate

V. dedicate; sanctify.

consensus

N. general agreement.

consistency

N. (1) absence of contradictions; (2) dependability; (3) degree of thickness.

consolidation

N. unification; process of becoming firmer or stronger.

conspicuous

ADJ. easily seen; noticeable; striking.

conspiracy

N. treacherous plot.

constituent

N. supporter.

constraint

N. compulsion; repression of feelings.

construe

V. explain; interpret.

contagion

N. infection.

contaminate

V. pollute.

contemporary

N. person belonging to the same period.

contempt

N. scorn; disdain.

contend

V. (1) argue earnestly; (2) struggle in rivalry.

contention

N. (1) angry disagreement; (2) point made in a debate or an argument; (3) competition.

contentious

ADJ. quarrelsome.

contest

V. dispute.

context

N. writings preceding and following the passage quoted.

contingent

ADJ. dependent on; conditional.

contingent

N. group that makes up part of a gathering.

contract

V. (1) compress or shrink; (2) establish by agreement; (3) incur an obligation; (4) catch a disease.

contrived

ADJ. forced; artificial; not spontaneous.

controvert

V. oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict.

convene

V. assemble.

convention

N. social or moral custom; established practice.

conventional

ADJ. ordinary; typical.

converge

V. approach; tend to meet; come together.

converse

N. opposite.

converse

V. chat; talk informally.

convert

N. one who has adopted a different religion or opinion.

conviction

N. judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief.

convoluted

ADJ. coiled around; involved; intricate.

copious

ADJ. plentiful.

corollary

N. consequence; accompaniment.

corporeal

ADJ. bodily; material.

correlation

N. mutual relationship.

corroborate

V. confirm; support.

corrode

V. destroy by chemical action.

corrosive

ADJ. eating away by chemicals or disease.

cosmopolitan

ADJ. sophisticated.

countenance

N. face.

countenance

V. approve; tolerate.

countermand

V. cancel; revoke.

counterpart

N. a thing that completes another; things very much alike.

coup

N. highly successful action or sudden attack.

couple

V. join; unite.

covenant

N. agreement.

covert

ADJ. secret; hidden; implied.

craftiness

N. slyness; trickiness.

credence

N. belief.

credibility

N. believability.

credo

N. creed.

credulity

N. belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naiveté.

creed

N. system of religious or ethical belief.

criterion

N. standard used in judging.

crux

N. crucial point.

cryptic

ADJ. mysterious; hidden; secret.

culminate

V. attain the highest point; climax.

culpable

ADJ. deserving blame.

cumulative

ADJ. growing by addition.

cursory

ADJ. casual; hastily done.

curtail

V. shorten; reduce.

cynical

ADJ. skeptical or distrustful of human motives.

daunt

V. intimidate; frighten.

dauntless

ADJ. bold.

dawdle

V. loiter; waste time.

deadlock

N. standstill; stalemate.

dearth

N. scarcity.

debacle

N. sudden downfall; complete disaster.

debilitate

V. weaken; enfeeble.

debunk

V. expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc.; ridicule.

decadence

N. decay.

decelerate

V. slow down.

decimate

V. kill, usually one out of ten.

decipher

V. interpret secret code.

decorum

N. propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners.

decoy

N. Iure or bait.

decrepit

ADJ. worn out by age.

decry

V. express strong disapproval of; disparage.

deducible

ADJ. derived by reasoning.

deface

V. mar; disfigure.

defame

V. harm someone's reputation; malign; slander.

default

N. failure to act.

defeatist

ADJ. attitude of one who is ready to accept defeat as a natural outcome.

defection

N. desertion.

defer

V. (1) delay until later; (2) exempt temporarily.

defer

V. give in respectfully; submit.

deference

N. (1) courteous regard for another's wishes; (2) respect owed to a superior.

defiance

N. refusal to yield; resistance.