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GRE Lesson 7
100 word chunks of Barron's data
Question | Answer |
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cadence | rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds); beat; regular beat of sound; rhythm |
cadet | student at a military school |
cajole | persuade by praise or false promise; coax; wheedle |
calamity | disaster; misery |
calculated | deliberately planned; likely |
caldron(cauldron) | large kettle |
caliber | ability; quality; diameter of the inside of a round cylinder; Ex. work of very high caliber |
calligraphy | beautiful writing; excellent penmanship |
callous | hardened; unfeeling; without sympathy for the sufferings of others; unkind |
callow | youthful; immature; inexperienced |
callus | area of thick hard skin |
calorific | heat-producing; N. calorie |
calumny | malicious misrepresentation; slander |
camaraderie | good-fellowship; CF. comrade |
cameo | shell or jewel carved in relief; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film |
camp | group sharing a common cause or opinion |
canard | unfounded false rumor; exaggerated false report |
candor | frankness; open honesty; ADJ. candid |
canine | related to dogs; doglike |
canker | any ulcerous sore; ulcer; any evil; CF. cancer |
canny | shrewd in money matters; thrifty |
cant | insincere speech or expression of piety; jargon of thieves; special words used by a particular group of people |
cantankerous | ill-humored; irritable |
cantata | story set to music to be sung by a chorus (shorter than an oratorio) |
canter | slow gallop; V. CF. trot |
canto | division of a long poem |
canvass | determine or seek opinions, votes, etc.; go through (a region) to solicit votes or orders; conduct a survey; N. |
capacious | spacious |
capacity | mental or physical ability; role; position or duty; ability to accommodate; Ex. in my capacity as president |
capillary | having a very fine bore; resembling a hair; fine and slender; Ex. capillary attraction; N: very fine hairlike tube; CF. capillarity |
capitulate | surrender; give up all resistance |
caprice | whim; sudden change of mind without any real cause |
capricious | unpredictable; fickle |
capsize | (of a boat) turn over |
caption | title; chapter heading; text under illustration |
captious | faultfinding; too critical |
carafe | glass water bottle; decanter |
carapace | shell covering the back (of a turtle, tortoise, crab, etc.) |
carat(karat) | unit of weight for precious stones; measure of the purity of gold |
carcinogenic | causing cancer; N. carcinogen |
cardinal | chief; most important; N: priest; cardinal number: number that shows quantity rather thatn order |
cardiologist | doctor specializing in ailments of the heart |
careen | lurch; sway from side to side; move with irregular swinging movement; stagger |
career | rush wildly; go at full speed |
carefree | free from worries; having no problems |
caricature | distortion; burlesque |
carillon | a set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being played |
carnage | destruction of life; slaughter; killing of large numbers of people or animals |
carnal | fleshly; sensual; concerning the desires of the body |
carnivorous | meat-eating; N. carnivore; CF. herbivore |
carousal | drunken revel; V. carouse |
carping | petty criticism; fault-finding; fretful complaining; quibble |
carrion | rotting flesh of a dead body; CF. vulture |
cartographer | map-maker |
cascade | small waterfall |
caste | one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society; social stratification; prestige |
castigation | punishment; severe criticism or disapproval |
castrate | remove the sex organs (of a male animal or person) |
casual | happening by chance; irregular; occasional; informal; showing or feeling little interest; Ex. casual reader/labor/remark |
casualty | serious or fatal accident; person killed or wounded in an accident or battle |
cataclysm | deluge; upheaval; earthquake; violent and sudden event or change |
catalyst | agent which brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged; CF. catalysis |
catapult | slingshot; hurling machine; V: fire from catapult |
cataract | great waterfall; eye abnormality (causing a gradual loss of eyesight) |
catastrophe | calamity ; disaster |
catcall | shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match); boo; V. |
catechism | book for religious instruction in question-and-answer form; religious instruction by question and answer; V. catechize |
categorical | without exceptions; made without any doubt in mind; unqualified; absolute |
cater | provide food and drink (for); cater to: try to satisfy (desires of a bad kind) |
catharsis | purging or cleansing of any passage of the body; purging and weakening of strong emotions as a result of experiencing a dramatic work of art |
cathartic | purgative; medicine that causes the bowels to empty; ADJ. |
catholic | (of likings and interests) universal; general; broad; including many different parts; wide-ranging liberal; Ex. catholic opinions/tastes |
caucus | private meeting of a group of people in a political party to select officers or determine policy; CF. the Caucus club of Boston |
caulk(calk) | make watertight (by blocking up cracks as in a ship) |
causal | implying a cause-and-effect relationship; N. causality |
caustic | burning; corrosive; able to burn by chemical action; sarcastically biting; (of remarks) intended to hurt; bitter; harmful; OP. harmless |
cauterize | burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent infection |
cavalcade | procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages; parade; CF. cavalry |
cavalier | casual and offhand; arrogant; N: knight |
cavil | quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily |
cede | yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession |
celerity | speed; rapidity |
celestial | heavenly |
celibate | abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy |
cemetery | place for burying the dead |
censor | (in ancient Rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census); person who eliminates inappropriate matter; V. |
censorious | severely critical |
censure | blame; criticize; express strong disapproval; N: severe criticism; strong disapproval |
centaur | mythical figure, half man and half horse |
centigrade | denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius) |
centrifugal | radiating; departing from the center |
centrifuge | machine that separates substances by whirling them |
centripetal | tending toward the center |
centurion | Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers) |
cerebral | pertaining to the brain or intellect; intellectual rather than emotional; CF. cerebrum |
cerebration | thought; working of the brain |
ceremonious | marked by formality; extremely formal and polite; CF. ceremony: conventional social courtesy |
certitude | certainty |
cessation | stoppage |
cession | yielding to another; ceding |