The auditor was found complicit in the accounting fraud, having knowingly signed off on false financial statements.
审计员被发现参与了会计欺诈，明知虚假财务报表却故意签字批准。
Which choice best defines “complicit”?
A — Involved in wrongdoing.. “complicit” means Involved in wrongdoing..
Which word means “Involved in wrongdoing.”?
B — complicit. “complicit” means Involved in wrongdoing..
complicit — Involved in wrongdoing.. In Chinese: 同谋的；串通的.
complicit is pronounced //kəmˈplɪsɪt//.
The auditor was found complicit in the accounting fraud, having knowingly signed off on false financial statements. (审计员被发现参与了会计欺诈，明知虚假财务报表却故意签字批准。)
involved, implicated, accessory — all close in meaning to complicit (Involved in wrongdoing.).
innocent, uninvolved — each the opposite of complicit (Involved in wrongdoing.).
Yes. complicit is on the SAT Prep Difficult list — the higher-register words that decide the hard questions. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
com- + plic(折叠) → 卷入其中 → 合谋。