SAT Words from Word Smart II Part 5
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cxcharlie on January 1, 2013
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*Why use this one? There are many other sets like this out there but none of them contain all the information given in the Princeton Review Word Smart II. These words are used very commonly in the SAT, GRE, and other standardized tests. It seems that there are already full Word Smart sets out there (see more)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 confer | v. to exchange ideas; to consult with; to bestow (n. conference is a meeting at which people confer) |
| confidant | n. a person with whom secrets or private thoughts are shared (n. confidante: female confidant) |
| configuration | n. arrangement (v. configure: to arrange) |
| conflagration | n. a large fire |
| confound | v. to bewilder; to amaze; to throw into confusion |
| congeal | v. to solidify; to jell |
| conjugal | adj. having to do with marriage |
| connive | v. to conspire; to aid or encourage a wrong by feigning ignorance (n. connivance) |
| confluence | n. a flowing together |
| conservatory | n. a greenhouse, usually one attached to another structure; a music or drama school |
| consign | v. to hand over; to assign; to entrust; to banish (n. consignment) |
| consolidate | v. to combine or bring together; to solidify; to strengthen |
| conspicuous | adj. easily seen; impossible to miss |
| consternation | n. a sudden confusion |
| constituency | n. the group of voters represented by a politician; a group of supporters for anything (made up of constituents) |
| contempt | n. disdain; disgrace (such as contempt of the court) |
| continuum | n. a continuous whole without clear division into paarts |
| contraband | n. smuggled goods |
| contretemps | n. an embarrassing occurrence; a mishap |
| contumely | n. rudeness; insolence; arrogance (adj. contumelious) |
| conundrum | n. a puzzle or problem without a solution |
| convene | v. to gather together; to assemble; to meet (n. convention is an event at which people convene) |
| conversant | adj. familiar; experienced |
| converse | n. the opposite |
| convey | v. to transport; to conduct; to communicate (n. conveyance: an act of transporting) |
| conviction | n. strong belief; a determination of guilt |
| convolution | n. a twist or turn; the act of twisting or turning (a convoluted plot has lots of twists and turn; a convoluted argument is a complex argument that is hard to follow; v. convolute) |
| copious | adj. abundant; plentiful |
| cordial | adj. gracious; warm; sincere (n. cordiality) |
| corollary | n. a preposition that follow easily and obviously from another; a natural consequence or conclusion (like in geometry) |
| corporeal | adj. material; tangible; having substance, like the body (don't get confused with corporal, which means having to do with body; corpulent is a person with lots of body fat; corp is a body of people) |
| correlation | n. a mutual relation between two or more things |
| corrosive | adj. eating away; destructive |
| corrugated | adj. shaped with folds or waves |
| coterie | n. a group of close associates; a circle (of friends of associates) |
| cower | v. to shrink away or huddle up in fear |
| crass | adj. extremely unrefined; gross; stupid |
| craven | adj. cowardly |
| crescendo | n. a gradual increase in the volume of a sound; a gradual increase in the intensity of anything |
| crestfallen | adj. dejected; dispirited [think head is crest, when dejected you put your head down, so "crest" (head) + "fallen" (down)] |
| crevice | n. a narrow split, crack, or fissure (a large crevice in a glacier is called a crevasse) |
| cringe | v. to shrink back with fear; to cower; to be servile or suck up in a horrible way |
| critique | n. a critical review (can also be a verb; neutral connotation though often used negatively) |
| crux | n. the central point; the essence (crux of an argument is crucial part of it) |
| cuisine | n. a style of cooking |
| cull | v. to pick out from among many; to select; to collect |
| curb | v. to restrain or control (noun is something that curbs) |
| curmudgeon | n. a difficult, bad-tempered person (usually used with "old") |
| cursory | adj. quick and not thorough; hasty; superficial |
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