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Barron's GRE(2nd100)
Barron's GRE words from 101 to 200
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bucolic | characteristic of the countryside; rustic; pastoral |
| burgeon | to flourish |
| burnish | to polish |
| buttress | to reinforce; support |
| cacophonous | unpleasant or harsh-sounding |
| cadge | to beg; sponge |
| callous | thick-skinned; insensitive |
| calumny | false and malicious accusation; slander |
| canard | false, deliberately misleading story |
| canon | an established principle; a basis or standard for judgment; a group of literary works |
| cant | insincere talk; language of a particular group |
| cantankerous | irritable; ill-humoured |
| capricious | fickle |
| captious | faultfinding; intended to entrap, as in an argument |
| cardinal | of foremost importance |
| carnal | of the flesh or body; related to physical appetities |
| carping | to find fault; complain |
| cartography | science of making maps |
| caste | any of the hereditary social classes of Hindu society; social stratification |
| castigation | punishment; chastisement; criticism |
| cataclysm | a violent upheaval that causes great destruction and change |
| catalyst | something causing change |
| categorical | absolute; without exception |
| caucus | smaller group within an organization |
| causal | involving a cause |
| caustic | sarcastically biting; burning |
| celestial | concerning the sky or heavens; sublime |
| centrifugal | moving away from a center |
| centripetal | moving or directed toward a center |
| champion | to defend or support |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or reproof; to restrain or subdue |
| chicanery | trickery; fraud |
| chivalry | the qualities idealized by knighthood such as bravery and gallantry toward women |
| churlish | rude; boorish |
| circuitous | roundabout |
| clairvoyant | one who can predict the future; psychic |
| clamor | noisy outcry |
| clique | a small, exclusive group |
| cloister | to confine; seclude |
| coagulate | thicken; congeal |
| coalesce | to cause to become one |
| coda | concluding part of a literary or musical composition; something that summarizes or concludes |
| codify | to systematize |
| cognizant | informed; conscious; aware |
| collage | artistic composition of materials pasted over a surface; an assemblage of diverse elements |
| commensurate | proportional |
| compendium | brief, comprehensive summary |
| complacent | self-satisfied |
| complaisant | overly polite; willing to please; obliging |
| complement | something that completes or makes up a whole |
| compliant | yielding |
| compunction | uneasiness caused by guilt |
| concave | curving inward |
| conciliatory | overcoming distrust or hostility |
| concoct | to invent |
| concomitant | existing concurrently |
| condone | to overlook voluntarily; forgive |
| confound | to baffle; perplex; mix up |
| congenial | similar in tastes and habits; friendly; suited to |
| conjugal | pertaining to marriage aggreement |
| connoisseur | a person possessing expert knowledge or training; a person of informed and discriminating taste |
| conscript | person compulsory enrolled for military service |
| consecrate | to declare sacred |
| contend | to assert |
| contentious | quarrelsome; causing quarrels |
| contiguous | touching; neighboring; connecting without a break |
| continence | self-control; abstention from sexual activity |
| contrite | very sorrowful for a wrong |
| contumacious | disobedient; rebellious |
| conundrum | riddle; puzzle with no solution |
| convention | practice widely observed in a group; custom; accepted technique or device |
| converge | to approach; come together; tend to meet |
| convex | curved outward |
| convivial | sociable |
| convoluted | complicated |
| copious | abundant; plentiful |
| coquette | woman who flirts |
| cornucopia | horn overflowing with fruit and grain; state of abundance |
| cosmology | study of the universe as a totality; theory of the origin and structure of the universe |
| covert | hidden; secret |
| covetous | desiring something owned by another |
| cozen | to misled by trick or fraud; deceive |
| craven | cowardly |
| credence | acceptance of something as true |
| credo | statement of belief or principle; creed |
| daunt | to discourage; intimidate; dishearten |
| dearth | scarcity |
| debauchery | corruption |
| decorum | proper behavior |
| defame | to malign; harm someone's reputation |
| default | to fail to act |
| deference | respect; regard for another's wish |
| defunct | no longer existing |
| delineate | to represent or depict |
| demographic | related to population balance |
| demotic | pertaining to people |
| demur | to express doubt |
| denigrate | to slur someone' reputation |
| denizen | an inhabitant; a regular visitor |
| denouement | outcome; unraveling of the plot of a play or work of literature |
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