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B&C GRE Vocabulary
"B" & "C" Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| baleful | sinister; ominous |
| beatify | to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to |
| behemoth | something enormous; a gigantic creature |
| beleaguer | to beset; besiege |
| belie | to give a false impression of |
| bellicose | belligerent; warlike |
| boisterous | loud; noisy; lacking restraint |
| bolster | to provide support |
| bombast | self-important or pompous writing or speech |
| boor | a rude or insensitive person |
| burgeon | to grow rapidly or flourish |
| burnish | to make smooth; to rub to a shine |
| byzantine | labyrinthine; complex |
| cabal | a scheme or plot; a group of plotters |
| cachinnate | to laugh loudly |
| cacophony | harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
| cajole | to inveigle; to coax through flattery |
| calumniate | to slander |
| calumny | slander |
| cannon | an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
| capricious | inclined to change one's mind impulsively or unpredictably |
| captious | calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
| castigate | severely criticize or punish |
| catalyst | a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person who causes change |
| caustic | burning or stinging, causing corrosion |
| celerity | speed |
| censure | to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
| chary | wary; cautious, sparing |
| chasten | to restrain or correct |
| chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot |
| chicanery | trickery or subterfuge |
| chimera | an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing monster |
| churlish | vulgar; difficult and intractable |
| coalesce | to come together or unite |
| coda | concluding section of a musical or literary piece |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
| commensurate | matching; corresponding in degree, size, or amount |
| complaisance | the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
| connoisseur | an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert |
| contiguous | sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
| contrite | regretful, penitent; seeking forgiveness |
| convention | a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
| corrigible | capable of being set right; correctable |
| cosset | to coddle |
| countenance | to approve of or tolerate |
| cozen | to deceive, beguile, or hoodwink |
| craven | contemptibly fainthearted; lacking any courage |
| credulous | tending to believe too readily |
| crestfallen | dejected; disappointed |
| curmudgeon | an irritable, ill-tempered person |
| cursory | hasty; done with little attention |
| cynicism | an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
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