SAT Hot Prospects & High Frequency Vocab 5
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| condone | v. overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse | Unlike Widow Douglass, who condoned Huck's minor offenses, Miss Watson did nothing but scold.
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| conflagration | n. great fire | In the conflagration that followed the 1906 earthquake, much of San Francisco was destroyed.
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| confluence | n. flowing together; crowd | They built the city at the confluence of two rives.
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| confound | v. confuse | No mystery could confound Sherlock Holmes for long.
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| conjecture | v. surmise; guess | Although there was no official count, the organizers conjectured that more than 10,000 marchers took part in the March for Peace.
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| consensus | n. general agreement | Every time the garden club members had nearly reached a consensus about what to plant, Mistress Mary, quite contrary, disagreed.
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| constraint | n. compulsion; repression of feelings | There was a feeling of constraint in the room because no one dared to criticize the speaker.
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| contend | v. struggle; compete; assert earnestly | Sociologist Harry Edwards contends that young black athletes are exploited by some college recruiters.
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| contentious | adj. quarrelsome | Disagreeing violently with the referees' ruling, the coach became so contentious that they threw him out of the game.
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| contract | v. compress or shrink; make a pledge or agreement; catch a disease | Warm metal expands; cold metal contracts.
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| converge | v. approach; tend to meet; come together | African-American men from all over the United States converged on Washington to take part in the historic Million Men March.
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| conviction | n. judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief | Even her conviction for murder did not shake Peter's conviction that harriet was innocent of the crime.
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| cordial | adj. gracious, heartfelt | Our hosts greeted us at the airport with a cordial welcome and a hearty hug.
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| corroborate | v. confirm; support | Though Huck was quite willing to corroborate Tom's story, Aunt Polly knew better than to believe either of them.
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| corrode | v. destroy by chemical action | The girders supporting that bridge corroded so gradually that no one suspected any danger until the bridge suddenly collapsed.
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| corrugated | adj. wrinkled; ridged | She wished she could smooth away the wrinkles from his corrugated brow.
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| credulity | n. belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naivete | Con artists take advantage of the credulity of inexperienced investors to swindle them out of their savings.
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| criterion | n. standard used in judging | What criterion did you use when you selected this essay as the prizewinner? (plural is criteria)
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| cryptic | adj. mysterious; hidden; secret | Thoroughly baffled by Holme's cryptic remarks, Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.
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| culpable | adj. deserving blame | Corrupt politicians who condone the activities of the gamblers are equally culpable.
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| cursory | adj. casual; hastily done | Because a cursory examination of the ruins indicates the possibility of arson, we believe the insurance agency should undertake a more extensive investigation of the fire's cause.
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| curtail | v. shorten; reduce | When Herb asked Diane for a date, she said she was really sorry she couldn't go out with him, but her dad had ordered her to curtail her social life.
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| debilitate | v. weaken; enfeeble | Michaels severe bout of the flu debilitated him so much that he was too tired to go to work for a week.
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| debunk | v. expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc; ridicule | Pointing out that he consistently had voted against strengthenbing anti-pollution legislation, reporters debunked the candidate's claim that he was a fervent environmentalist.
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| concur | v. agree | Did you concur with the decision of the court or did you find it unfair?
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