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Part C -D
Kaplan vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| certitude | assurance (n) |
| cessation | a temporary or complete halt (n) |
| chary | watchful, cautious, extremely shy (adj) |
| chimerical | fanciful; imaginary; impossible (adj) |
| circuitous | indirect; roundabout (adj) |
| circumvent | to go around; avoid (v) |
| cloying | sickly sweet; excessive (adj) |
| coagulate | to clot/thicken (v) |
| cogent | convincing (adj) |
| colloquial | characteristic of informal speech (adj) |
| commute | to change a penalty to a less severe one (v) |
| complacent | self-satisfied, smug (adj) |
| concomitant | existing concurrently (adj) |
| concord | agreement (n) |
| condole | to grive; to express sympathy (v) |
| conflagration | big destructive fire (n) |
| confluence | the act of two things flowing together; junction or meeting place where two things meet (n) |
| consanguineous | related by blood (adj) |
| consternation | an intense state of fear or dismay (n) |
| constituent | component, part, citizen, voter (n) |
| contemptuous | scornful; expressing contempt |
| contentious | quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent (adj) |
| contiguous | sharing a boundary; neighboring (adj) |
| continence | self-control, self-restraint (n) |
| convalesce | to recover gradually from an illness (v) |
| coquette | a flirtatious woman (n) |
| coterie | an intimate group of persons with a similar purpose (n) |
| countervail | to act or react with equal force (v) |
| covert | secretive (adj) |
| cull | to select; weed out (v) |
| cumulative | increasing, collective (adj) |
| curt | abrupt, short with words (adj) |
| dearth | a lack, scarcity, insufficiency (n) |
| debacle | a sudden, disastrous collapse or defeat; a total, ridiculous failure (n) |
| declaim | to speak loudly and vehemently (v) |
| defamatory | injurious to the reputation (adj) |
| demagogue | a leader, rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice (n) |
| denizen | an inhabitant; a resident (n) |
| deride | to laugh at contemptuously, to make fun of (v) |
| diffuse | to spread out widely; to scatter freely; to disseminate (v) |
| digress | to turn aside, especially from the main point; to stray from the subject (v) |
| dilapidated | in disrepair, run down (adj) |
| diluvial | pertaining to a flood (adj) |
| discomfit | to disconcert, to make one lose one's composure (v) |
| discrete | individually distinct; separate (ad) |
| disingenuous | giving a false appearance of simple frankness; misleading (adj) |
| disinterested | fair-minded, unbiased (adj) |
| dispassionate | unaffected by bias or strong emotions (adj) |
| dissident | disagreeing with an established religious or political system (adj) |
| doctrinaire | rigidly devoted to theories without regard for practicality; dogmatic |
| dogged | stubbornly persevering (adj) |
| doleful | sad; mournful (adj) |
| dour | sullen and gloomy; stern and severe (adj) |
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