Barron's SAT Critical Reading Words Part 2/8

Vansh J.
SAT high frequency words found in Barron's SAT Critical Reading Workbook (13th Edition).
Contains letters C and D.
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  1. cacophonous
    having an unpleasant sound
  2. cajole
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
  3. calculated
    carefully thought out in advance
  4. candor
    the quality of being honest and straightforward
  5. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  6. caricature
    a representation of a person exaggerated for comic effect
  7. censorious
    harshly critical or expressing censure
  8. censure
    harsh criticism or disapproval
  9. certitude
    complete assurance or confidence
  10. charlatan
    a flamboyant deceiver
  11. chronicle
    a record or narrative description of past events
  12. civil
    of or occurring between or among citizens of the state
  13. clamor
    utter or proclaim insistently and noisily
  14. clemency
    leniency and compassion shown toward offenders
  15. coercion
    using force to cause something to occur
  16. commemorate
    call to remembrance
  17. compelling
    capable of arousing and holding the attention
  18. compile
    get or gather together
  19. compliance
    a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
  20. composure
    steadiness of mind under stress
  21. comprehensive
    including all or everything
  22. concede
    give over
  23. conciliatory
    making or willing to make concessions
  24. concise
    expressing much in few words
  25. conclusive
    forming a decisive end or resolution
  26. concur
    happen simultaneously
  27. condone
    excuse, overlook, or make allowances for
  28. confirm
    strengthen
  29. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  30. confound
    be confusing or perplexing to
  31. confront
    deal with head on
  32. conscientious
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  33. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
  34. consistency
    uniformity or stability in arrangement, behavior, or quality
  35. constraint
    the state of being physically limited
  36. contagion
    an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
  37. contemporary
    occurring in the same period of time
  38. contend
    compete for something
  39. contentious
    showing an inclination to disagree
  40. contract
    make smaller
  41. converge
    be adjacent or come together
  42. conviction
    an unshakable belief in something without need for proof
  43. cordial
    politely warm and friendly
  44. corroborate
    support with evidence or authority or make more certain
  45. corrosion
    erosion by chemical action
  46. credibility
    the quality of being believable or trustworthy
  47. credulity
    tendency to believe readily
  48. criterion
    the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
    Singular form of criteria.
  49. cryptic
    having a secret or hidden meaning
  50. cursory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  51. curtail
    terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end
  52. cynic
    someone who is critical of the motives of others
  53. daunt
    cause to lose courage
  54. dawdle
    waste time
  55. debilitate
    make weak
  56. debunk
    expose while ridiculing
  57. decorum
    propriety in manners and conduct
  58. defame
    charge falsely or with malicious intent
  59. deference
    courteous regard for people's feelings
  60. defiance
    a hostile challenge
  61. degeneration
    the process of declining from a higher to a lower level
  62. degrade
    reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
  63. deliberate
    carefully thought out in advance
  64. delineate
    represented accurately or precisely
  65. denounce
    speak out against
  66. deny
    declare untrue; contradict
  67. depict
    show in, or as in, a picture
  68. deplore
    express strong disapproval of
  69. depravity
    moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
  70. deprecate
    express strong disapproval of; deplore
  71. deride
    treat or speak of with contempt
  72. derivative
    a compound obtained from another compound
  73. despondent
    without or almost without hope
  74. despot
    a cruel and oppressive dictator
  75. detached
    no longer connected or joined
  76. deterrent
    something immaterial that interferes with action or progress
  77. detrimental
    causing harm or injury
  78. devious
    turning away from a straight course
  79. devise
    come up with after a mental effort
  80. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  81. diffuse
    spread out; not concentrated in one place
  82. digression
    wandering from the main path of a journey
  83. diligence
    conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task
  84. diminution
    change toward something smaller or lower
  85. disband
    cause to break up or cease to function
  86. discerning
    having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
  87. disclose
    expose to view as by removing a cover
  88. discordant
    not in agreement or harmony
  89. discount
    bar from attention or consideration
  90. discredit
    the state of being held in low esteem
  91. discrepancy
    a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
  92. discriminating
    showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment
  93. discursive
    tending to cover a wide range of subjects
  94. disdain
    reject with contempt
  95. disinclination
    a certain degree of unwillingness
  96. disinterested
    unaffected by concern for one's own welfare
  97. dismantle
    take apart into its constituent pieces
  98. dismiss
    cease to consider
  99. disparage
    express a negative opinion of
  100. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
  101. dispassionate
    unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice
  102. dispel
    force to go away
  103. disperse
    move away from each other
  104. disputatious
    showing an inclination to disagree
  105. disseminate
    cause to become widely known
  106. dissent
    a difference of opinion
  107. dissipate
    cause to separate and go in different directions
  108. dissonance
    disagreeable sounds
  109. dissuade
    turn away from by persuasion
  110. distant
    separated in space or coming from far away
  111. divergent
    tending to move apart in different directions
  112. diverse
    distinctly dissimilar or unlike
  113. divulge
    make known to the public information previously kept secret
  114. doctrine
    a belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  115. document
    a representation of a person's thinking with symbolic marks
  116. dogmatic
    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  117. dormant
    inactive but capable of becoming active
  118. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  119. duplicity
    a fraudulent representation
  120. duration
    the period of time during which something continues
  121. dutiful
    willingly obedient out of a sense of respect
Created on Mon Jun 25 13:04:59 EDT 2012 (updated Fri Jun 21 19:36:10 EDT 2013)

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