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Vocabulary Unit 13: Top SAT Words. Vocabulary.com. Collaborate. Work together on a common enterprise of project Verb When you work together on shared goal, you collaborate . If you don't just split a project up evenly but work together on creating solutions, you collaborate .
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Vocabulary Unit 13: Top SAT Words Vocabulary.com
Collaborate • Work together on a common enterprise of project • Verb • When you work together on shared goal, you collaborate. If you don't just split a project up evenly but work together on creating solutions, you collaborate.
Compassion • Awareness of and sympathy for another’s suffering • Noun • If someone shows kindness, caring, and a willingness to help others, they're showing compassion.
Compromise • An accommodation in which both sides make concessions • Noun • A compromise is a way of settling differences by everybody making concessions. If you want to stay out until 10 and your friend wants to stay out until midnight, 11 is a good compromise.
Condescending • (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension • Verb • If you are being condescending, you are looking down on someone. A 10-year-old who says to his sibling, "What do you know? You're only a 6-year-old!" is being condescending.
Conditional • Imposing or depending on or containing a condition • Noun • Something conditionalis dependent on other factors. You might receive a conditional offer of acceptance from a college, depending on your high school graduation and your maintaining passing grades.
Conformist • Someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (esp. in religion) • Noun • A conformist is a person who follows traditional standards of conduct. If you're a conformist, it's unlikely you'll join a revolution to overthrow your government; instead you'll argue that it's best to keep things the way they are.
Convergence • The act of coming closer • Noun • Convergence is when two or more things come together to form a new whole, like the convergence of plum and apricot genes in the plucot.
Deleterious • Harmful to living things • Adjective • If something is deleterious, it does harm or makes things worse. Smoking has obvious deleterious effects on your health, not to mention your social life.
Demagogue • A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudice • Noun • A demagogue is someone who becomes a leader largely because of skills as a speaker or who appeals to emotions and prejudices.
Digression • A turning aside of course or attention or concern • Noun • When your essay about French cooking starts describing a childhood trip to Disneyland, it's taken a digression — it's strayed from the main topic.