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WS quick quiz 16-20
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| bequest | Something left to someone in a will |
| bereaved | Deprived or left desolate, especially through death |
| beset | Harass; to surround |
| blasphemy | Irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity |
| blatant | Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring |
| blight | Disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys |
| blithe | Carefree; cheerful |
| bourgeois | Middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional |
| bovine | Cow related; cowlike cf)canine, equine, feline, piscine, porcine, ursine |
| brevity | Briefness |
| broach | To open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject |
| bucolic | Charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike |
| bureaucracy | A system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules; any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules, and red tape |
| burgeon | To expand; to flourish |
| burlesque | A ludicrous, mocking, or exaggerated imitation |
| cacophony | Harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds |
| cadence | Rhythm, the rise and fall of sounds |
| cajole | To persuade someone to do something he or she doesnt want to do |
| callow | Immature |
| candor | Truthfulness; sincere honesty |
| Capitalism | Free enterprise |
| capitulate | To surrender; to give up or give in |
| capricious | Unpredictable; like to change at any moment |
| caricature | A portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated, often to prove some point about its subject |
| castigate | To criticize severely; to chastise |
| catalyst | In chemistry,~; anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it |
| categorical | Unconditional; absolute |
| catharsis | Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal |
| catholic | Universal; embracing everything |
| caustic | Like acid; corrosive |
| celibacy | Abstinence from sex |
| censure | To condemn severely for doing something bad |
| cerebral | Brainy; intellectually refined |
| chagrin | Humiliation; embarrassed disappointment |
| charisma | A magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty |
| charlatan | Fraud; quack; con man |
| chasm | A deep, gaping hole; a gorge |
| chastise | To inflict punishment on; to discipline |
| chicanery | Trickery; deceitfulness; artifice; especially legal or political |
| chimera | An illusion; a foolish fancy |
| choleric | Hot-tempered; quick to anger |
| chronic | Constant; lasting a long time; inveterate |
| chronicle | A record of events in order of time; a history |
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