SAT High Frequency Words : 51-60

1. Cajole (v) : coax; wheedle. Diane tried to cajole her father into letting her drive the family car.
2. Calculated (adj) : deliberately planned; likely. Lexy’s choice of clothes to wear to the debate tournament was carefully calculated. Her conventional suit was one calculated to appeal to the conservative judges.
3. Candor (n) : frankness; open honesty. Jack can carry candor too far: when he told Jill his honest opinion of her, she nearly slapped his face.
4. Capricious (adj) : unpredictable; fickle. The storm was capricious: it changed course constantly. Jill was capricious, too: she changed boyfriends almost as often as she changed clothes.
5. Censorious (adj)  : critical. Censorious people delight in casting blame.
6. Censure (v) : blame; criticize. The senator was censured for behavior inappropriate to a member of Congress.
7. Coercion (n) : use of force to get someone to obey. The inquisitors used both physical and psychological coercion to force Joan of Arc to deny that her visions were sent by God.
8. Commemorate (v)  : honor the memory of. The statue of the Minute Man commemorates the valiant soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War.
9. Compile (v) . assemble; gather; accumulate. We planned to compile a list of the words most frequently used on SAT examinations.
10. Complacency (n)  : self-satisfaction; smugness. Full of complacency about his latest victories, he looked smugly at the row of trophies on his mantelpiece.