SAT最常见的1000个词汇（C-2）

　　该词表中的词汇主要是针对美国学生挑选出来的，这1000个词汇是属于SAT考试中常出现但美国学生却不熟悉的词汇，因此该词表中的词汇难度较大。如果你是刚刚接触SAT的考生，最好不要立即使用该词表，推荐留在备考的最后阶段再使用。 

　　circuitous (adj.) roundabout (The bus’s circuitous route took us through numerous outlying suburbs.)

　　circumlocution (n.) indirect and wordy language (The professor’s habit of speaking incircumlocutions made it difficult to follow his lectures.)

　　circumscribed (adj.) marked off, bounded (The children were permitted to play tagonly within a carefully circumscribed area of the lawn.)

　　circumspect (adj.) cautious (Though I promised Rachel’s father I would bring her homepromptly by midnight, it would have been more circumspect not to have specified atime.)

　　circumvent (v.) to get around (The school’s dress code forbidding navel-baring jeanswas circumvented by the determined students, who were careful to cover up withlong coats when administrators were nearby.)

　　clairvoyant (adj.) able to perceive things that normal people cannot (Zelda’s uncannyability to detect my lies was nothing short of clairvoyant.)

　　clamor 1. (n.) loud noise (Each morning the birds outside my window make such aclamor that they wake me up.) 2. (v.)to loudly insist (Neville’s fans clamored for him to appear on stage, but he had passed out on the floor of his dressing room.)

　　clandestine (adj.) secret (Announcing to her boyfriend that she was going to the gym, Sophie actually went to meet Joseph for a clandestine liaison.)

　　cleave 1. (v.) to divide into parts (Following the scandalous disgrace of their leader, the entire political party cleaved into warring factions.) 2. (v.) to stick together firmly (After resolving their marital problems, Junior and Rosa cleaved to one another all the more tightly.)

　　clemency (n.) mercy (After he forgot their anniversary, Martin could only beg Maria for clemency.)

　　clergy (n.) members of Christian holy orders (Though the villagers viewed the church rectory as quaint and charming, the clergy who lived there regarded it as a mildewy and dusty place that aggravated their allergies.)

　　cloying (adj.) sickeningly sweet (Though Ronald was physically attractive, Maud found his constant compliments and solicitous remarks cloying.) coagulate (v.) to thicken, clot (The top layer of the pudding had coagulated into a thick skin.)

　　coalesce (v.) to fuse into a whole (Gordon’s ensemble of thrift-shop garments coalesced into a surprisingly handsome outfit.)

　　cobbler (n.) a person who makes or repairs shoes (I had my neighborhood cobbler replace my worn-out leather soles with new ones.)

　　coerce (v.) to make somebody do something by force or threat (The court decided that Vanilla Ice did not have to honor the contract because he had been coerced into signing it.)

　　cogent (adj.) intellectually convincing (Irene’s arguments in favor of abstinence were so cogent that I could not resist them.)

　　cognizant (adj.) aware, mindful (Jake avoided speaking to women in bars because he was cognizant of the fact that drinking impairs his judgment.)

　　coherent (adj.) logically consistent, intelligible (Renee could not figure out what Monroe had seen because he was too distraught to deliver a coherent statement.)

　　collateral 1. (adj.) secondary (Divorcing my wife had the collateral effect of making me poor, as she was the only one of us with a job or money.) 2. (n.) security for a debt (Jacob left his watch as collateral for the $500 loan.)

　　colloquial (adj.) characteristic of informal conversation (Adam’s essay on sexual response in primates was marked down because it contained too many colloquial expressions.)

　　collusion (n.) secret agreement, conspiracy (The three law students worked in collusion to steal the final exam.)

　　colossus (n.) a gigantic statue or thing (For 56 years, the ancient city of Rhodes featured a colossus standing astride its harbor.)

　　combustion (n.) the act or process of burning (The unexpected combustion of the prosecution’s evidence forced the judge to dismiss the case against Ramirez.)

　　commendation (n.) a notice of approval or recognition (Jared received a commendation from Linda, his supervisor, for his stellar performance.)

　　commensurate (adj.) corresponding in size or amount (Ahab selected a very long roll and proceeded to prepare a tuna salad sandwich commensurate with his enormous appetite.)

　　commodious (adj.) roomy (Holden invited the three women to join him in the back seat of the taxicab, assuring them that the car was quite commodious.)