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MasterVocab 151-200
SAT words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| burgeon | grow forth; send out buds |
| burnish | to polish, rub to a shine |
| cabal | a scheme or plot; a group of plotters |
| cacophony | harsh sound |
| cadence | rhythmic modulation of sound |
| cadge | to beg; to get by begging |
| cajole | use flattery or deceit; to persuade |
| calumny | slander; aspersion |
| candid | frank; straight-forward |
| cant | insincere talk |
| cantankerous | bad-tempered; quarrelsome |
| canvass | discuss thoroughly; sort of touting |
| captious | critical |
| carouse | to drink alcohol freely |
| carp | to find fault or complain querulously |
| carte blanche | full discretionary power |
| castigation | severe punishment |
| catalyst | substance that causes speeding up |
| catatonic | immobile |
| catholic | comprehensive; universal |
| caustic | biting; sarcastic |
| cavil at | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| cede/cession | to surrender possession of, especially by treaty |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| censure | expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke |
| centurion | leader of a unit of 100 soldiers |
| chaff | to tease good-naturedly |
| charlatan | quack or fraud |
| chary (of) | cautious; wary |
| chastisement | punishment |
| chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot |
| chicanery | legal trickery; false argument |
| chimera | illusion or fabrication of the mind |
| chisel | steel tool for shaping materials |
| chivy | to tease or annoy with persistent petty attacks |
| choleric | irritable; bad-tempered |
| chromatic | of color |
| churl | bad-tempered person |
| chutzpah | nerve; gall |
| circumscribe | to draw line around; to limit |
| clamor | shout; complain with a lot of noise |
| clerical | of the clergy or clerk |
| clientele | customers |
| clinch | come to grips; settle conclusively |
| cling | to resist separation |
| clot | half-solid lump formed from liquid |
| cloture | closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting |
| coagulation | change to a thick and solid state |
| coalescing | coming together and uniting into one substance |
| coax | get smb to do smth by kindness |