Blunder - Canter
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blurt | to utter impulsively
🗑
|
||||
| Bluster | to be loud and noisy; empty threats
🗑
|
||||
| Bode | to foreshadow; portend (to give an omen)
🗑
|
||||
| Bogus | counterfeit; not authentic
🗑
|
||||
| Bohemian | unconventional (in an artistic way)
🗑
|
||||
| Boisterous | violent; rough; noisy
🗑
|
||||
| Bolster | to support; to reinforce
🗑
|
||||
| Bolt (N) | door bar; a fastening pin or screw; the length of fabric
🗑
|
||||
| Bolt (V) | to dash or to dart off; fasten (a door); to gobble down
🗑
|
||||
| Bombardment | an attack with bombs
🗑
|
||||
| Bombastic | pompous; using inflated language
🗑
|
||||
| Boon | blessing; benefit
🗑
|
||||
| Boorish | rude; insensitive
🗑
|
||||
| Bouillon | clear beef or chicken soup
🗑
|
||||
| Bountiful | abundant; graciously generous
🗑
|
||||
| Bourgeois | middle class; selfishly materialistic
🗑
|
||||
| Bovine | cowlike; placid and dull
🗑
|
||||
| Bowdlerize | to remove passages considered vulgar: to expurgate
🗑
|
||||
| Boycott | to refrain from buying or using
🗑
|
||||
| Brackish | somewhat salty; unpleasant or distasteful <He found the only wells in the area were brackish; drinking the water made him nauseous.>
🗑
|
||||
| Braggadocio | boasting; cockiness
<He was disliked because his manner was always full of braggadocio.>
🗑
|
||||
| Braggart | boaster
🗑
|
||||
| Brandish | to wave around; to flourish
🗑
|
||||
| Bravado | pretense display of bravery; swaggering (boasting)
🗑
|
||||
| Brawn | muscular strength; sturdiness
🗑
|
||||
| Brazen | contemptuous in speech or conduct; insolent
🗑
|
||||
| Breach | breaking of contract or duty; fissure or gap
🗑
|
||||
| Breadth | width; extent
🗑
|
||||
| Brevity | shortness or conciseness
🗑
|
||||
| Brindled | tawny or grayish with streaks or sports
🗑
|
||||
| Bristling | rising like bristles; showing irritation
🗑
|
||||
| Brittle | easily broken or damaged; lacking warmth, sensitivity, or compassion
🗑
|
||||
| Broach | to introduce; to open up
🗑
|
||||
| Brocade | rich, figured fabric
🗑
|
||||
| Brochure | pamphlet
🗑
|
||||
| Brooch | ornamental clasp
🗑
|
||||
| Brook | to tolerate; to endure
🗑
|
||||
| Browbeat | to bully; to intimidate
🗑
|
||||
| Browse | to graze; to skim or glance at casually
🗑
|
||||
| Brunt | main impact or shock <His arm took the brunt of the blow.>
🗑
|
||||
| Brusque | blunt; abrupt
🗑
|
||||
| Buccaneer | pirate
🗑
|
||||
| Bucolic | rustic; pastoral
🗑
|
||||
| Buffet | to slap; batter; knock about
🗑
|
||||
| Buffoonery | clowning
🗑
|
||||
| Bugaboo | something that causes fear or worry; bugbear
🗑
|
||||
| Bullion | gold and silver in the form of bars
🗑
|
||||
| Bulwark | a defense wall; person who defends
🗑
|
||||
| Bungle | to act or work clumsily or inadequately; to mishandle; to botch
🗑
|
||||
| Buoyant | able to float; cheerful and optimistic
🗑
|
||||
| Bureaucracy | overregulated administrative system marked by red tape
🗑
|
||||
| Burgeon | to sprout; to flourish
🗑
|
||||
| Burlesque | to give an imitation that ridicules
🗑
|
||||
| Burnish | to make shiny by rubbing; polish
🗑
|
||||
| Buttress | to support; to prop up
🗑
|
||||
| Buxom | full-bosomed; plump; jolly
🗑
|
||||
| Cabal | persons secretly united in a plot; club or group <a cabal of artist>
🗑
|
||||
| Cache | hiding place
🗑
|
||||
| Cacophonous | having a harsh or discordant sound; inharmonious
🗑
|
||||
| Cadaver | corpse
🗑
|
||||
| Cadaverous | like a corpse; pale
🗑
|
||||
| Cadence | rhythmic rise and fall of words or sounds; beat
🗑
|
||||
| Cajole | to coax; to wheedle
🗑
|
||||
| Calamity | disaster; misery
🗑
|
||||
| Calculated | deliberately planned; likely
🗑
|
||||
| Cauldron | large kettle
🗑
|
||||
| Caliber | ability; quality
🗑
|
||||
| Calligraphy | beautiful writing; excellent penmanship
🗑
|
||||
| Callous | hardened; unfeeling
🗑
|
||||
| Callow | inexperience; immature
🗑
|
||||
| Calorific | heat-producing
🗑
|
||||
| Calumny | malicious misrepresentation; slander
🗑
|
||||
| Camaraderie | good-fellowship
🗑
|
||||
| Cameo | shell or jewel carved in relief; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film
🗑
|
||||
| Camouflage | to disguise; to conceal
🗑
|
||||
| Canard | a false story; exaggerate report
🗑
|
||||
| Candor | frankness; open honesty
🗑
|
||||
| Canine | related to dogs; doglike
🗑
|
||||
| Canker | any ulcerous sore; any evil
🗑
|
||||
| Canny | Careful, cautious; shrewd; skilled; thrifty
🗑
|
||||
| Canon | the body of rules, principles, or standards; standard or criterion
🗑
|
||||
| Cant | insincere expressions of piety; private language of the underworld
🗑
|
||||
| Cantankerous | ill-humored; irritable
🗑
|
||||
| Cantata | story set to music, to be sung by a chorus
🗑
|
||||
| Blunder | error
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
triwaingle
Popular GRE sets