GRE Vocab letters B and C
Terms
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- Bacchanalian
- drunken
- Badinage
- teasing conversation
- Baleful
- ominous, deadly influence
- Balk
- foil
- Ballast
- heavy substance adding stability or weight
- Bandy
- discuss lightly or glibly
- Bantering
- good natured ridiculing
- Barrister
- counselor at law
- Bastion
- stronghold
- Bate
- restrain
- Beatific
- blissful
- Beleaguer
- besiege, attack, harass
- Benison
- blessing
- Betoken
- signify, indicate
- Bifurcated
- divided into two branches
- Bilious
- suffering from indigestion
- Bilk
- swindle, cheat
- Bivouac
- temporary encampment
- Blandishment
- flattery
- Blighted
- suffering from a disease
- Blowhard
- talkative boaster
- Bluff
- rough but good natured
- Bourgeois
- middle class, selfishly materialistic, dully conventional
- Bowdlerize
- clean up, edit, bleep
- Brindled
- gray with spots, not a pure color
- Brocade
- rich detailed design in fabric
- Brook
- tolerate, endure
- Browbeat
- bully, intimidate
- Bucolic
- rustic, pastoral
- Bugaboo
- object of unreasonable terror
- Bullion
- gold and silver bars
- Burgeon
- grow forth, send out buds
- Burlesque
- imitate to ridicule
- Cabal
- secret alliance of people working to promote a cause
- Callow
- youthful, immature, inexperienced
- Calumny
- malicious misrepresentation, slander
- Canard
- unfounded rumor, exaggerated report
- Cant
- insincere expressions of piety, hypocritical talk
- Cantata
- story set to music for a chorus
- Canto
- part of a long poem
- Canvass
- seek opinions, votes
- Capitulate
- surrender
- Captious
- faultfinding
- Carafe
- glass beverage bottle
- Carapace
- shell covering the back
- Carousal
- drunken revel
- Categorical
- without exceptions, unqualified, absolute
- Cavalcade
- procession, parade
- Cavalier
- casual and offhand
- Cavil
- make frivolous objections
- Celerity
- speed, rapidity
- Centrifugal
- radiating, departing from the center
- Centripetal
- tending towards the center
- Cerebration
- thought
- Chalice
- goblet
- Charlatan
- quack, pretender to knowledge
- Chary
- cautious
- Chase
- ornament a metal surface by indenting
- Chassis
- framework and working parts of an automobile
- Checkered
- marked by changes in fortune (see vicissitude)
- CHICANERY
- trickery, deception
- Chimerical
- fantastically improbable
- Chisel
- swindle or cheat, cut with a chisel
- Choleric
- hot tempered
- Churlish
- boorish, rude
- Cipher
- nonentity, worthless person or thing
- Circumlocution
- indirect or roundabout speech, evading the point
- Circumspect
- prudent, cautious
- Clamber
- climb by crawling
- Clarion
- shrill trumpetlike sound
- Clemency
- disposition to be lenient or mild
- Cloister
- monastery or convent
- Codicil
- supplement to the body of a will
- Coeval
- living at the same time as, contemporary with
- COGENT
- convincing
- Cognate
- related linguistically, akin in nature, blood relative
- Collate
- examine to verify authenticity
- Collation
- a light meal
- Colloquial
- informal, common conversational speech
- Colloquy
- informal discussion
- Colossus
- gigantic statue
- Comely
- attractive, aggreable
- Comestible
- fit to be eaten
- Comeuppance
- rebuke, scolding that he had coming
- Comity
- courtesy, civility
- COMMENSURATE
- equal in extent
- COMPENDIUM
- brief, comprehensive summary
- COMPLAISANT
- trying to please, obliging
- Comport
- bear ones self, behave
- Compunction
- remorse
- Concatenate
- to link together, like a chain, connect
- Concerted
- mutually done together
- Conclave
- private meeting
- Concomitant
- that which accompanies
- Condign
- adequate, deservedly severe
- Confluence
- flowing together, crowd
- Conjecture
- a guess, surmise
- Conjugal
- pertaining to marriage, connubial
- Connivance
- secret assistance in doing wrong
- Connubial
- pertaining to marriage, conjugal
- Conservatory
- school of the arts
- Consonance
- harmony, agreement
- Consort
- husband or wife
- Contiguous
- adjacent to, touching upon
- Continence
- self restraint, sexual chastity
- Contravene
- contradict, oppose
- Controvert
- to oppose with arguments
- Contumacious
- disobedient, resisting authority
- Contusion
- bruise
- CONUNDRUM
- riddle, difficult problem
- Conversant
- familiar with, able to talk intelligently about
- Convivial
- festive, gay, jovial
- Convoke
- call together
- Coquette
- flirt
- Corollary
- consequence, accompanying result
- Coterie
- group that meets socially
- Countenance
- to approve, tolerate
- Coup
- sudden attack, successful action
- Cozen
- cheat, swindle
- CRAVEN
- cowardly
- Credulity
- gullibility, naivete
- Cull
- pick out, reject
- Culpable
- deserving blame
- Culvert
- manmade water channel
- Cupidity
- greed
- Curmudgeon
- miserly, churlish person
- Cynosure
- object of general attention