GRE FLASHCARDS (C)
Terms
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- cabal
- small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests
- cache
- hiding place
- cacophonous
- *discordant; inharmonious
- cadge
- beg; mooch; panhandle
- calculated
- deliberately planned; likely
- callow
- youthful; immature; inexperienced
- calorific
- heat-producing
- calumny
- malicious misrepresentation; slander
- cameo
- shell or jewel carved in relief; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film
- canard
- false or unfounded story; fabricated report
- canker
- any uncerous sore; any evil
- canny
- shrewd; thrifty
- canon
- (secondary meaning) rule or principle, frequently religious
- cant
- insincere expressions of piety; jargon of thieves
- cantankerous
- ill-humored; irritable
- cantata
- story set to music
- canter
- slow gallop
- canto
- division of a long poem
- canvass
- determine or seek opinions, votes, etc.
- capacity
- mental or physical ability; role; ability to accommodate
- capillary
- having a very fine bore
- capitulate
- surrender
- caprice
- whim
- capricious
- *unpredictable; fickle
- captious
- faultfinding
- carafe
- glass water bottle; decanter
- carapace
- shell covering the back (of a turtle, crab, etc.)
- caricature
- distortion; burlesque
- carillon
- a set of bells capable of being played
- carnage
- destruction of life
- carnal
- fleshly
- carousal
- drunken revel
- carping
- petty criticism; fault-finding
- carrion
- rotting flesh of a dead body
- cartographer
- map-maker
- cascade
- small waterfall
- caste
- one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society, social stratification; prestige
- castigation
- *punishment; severe criticism
- casualty
- serious or fatal accident
- cataclysm
- deluge; upheaval
- cataract
- great waterfall; eye abnormality
- catechism
- book for religious instruction; instruction by question and answer
- categorical
- without exceptions; unqualified; absolute
- cathartic
- purgative
- catholic
- universal; wide-ranging liveral
- caucus
- private meeting of members of a party to select officers or determine policy
- caulk
- to make watertight (by plugging seams)
- caustic
- *burning; sarcastically biting
- cauterize
- burn with hot iron or caustic
- cavalcade
- procession; parade
- cavalier
- casual and offhand; arrogant
- cavil
- make frivolous objections
- cede
- yield (title, territory) to; surrender formally
- celerity
- speed; rapidity
- celestial
- heavenly
- celibate
- abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried
- censorious
- critical
- censure
- blame; criticize
- centrifugal
- radiating; departing from the center
- centripetal
- tending toward the center
- centurion
- Roman army officer
- cerebration
- thought
- ceremonious
- marked by formality
- certitude
- certainty
- cession
- yielding (something) to another; ceding
- chafe
- warm by rubbing; make sore (by rubbing)
- chaff
- worthless products of an endeavor
- chaffing
- bantering; joking
- chagrin
- vexation (caused by humiliation or injured pride); disappointment
- charisma
- divine gift; great popular charm or appeal
- charlatan
- quack; pretender to knowledge
- chary
- cautious; cparing or restrained about giving
- chase
- ornament a metal surface by indenting
- chassis
- framework and working parts of an automobile
- chasten
- correct by punishment or scolding; restrain
- chastened
- humbled; subdued; rebuked
- chauvinist
- blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group or cause
- check
- stop motion; curb or restrain
- checkered
- marked by changes in fortune
- chicanery
- *trickery; deception
- chide
- scold
- chimerical
- fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative
- chisel
- (second meaning) swindle or cheat; cut with a chisel
- choleric
- hot-tempered
- chortle
- chuckle with delight
- churlish
- boorish; rude
- ciliated
- having minute hairs
- cipher
- (second meaning) secret code
- circlet
- small rind; band
- circuitous
- roundabout
- circumlocution
- unnecessarily wordy and indirect speech; evasive language
- circumscribe
- limit narrowly; confine or restrict; define
- circumspect
- prudent; cautious
- circumvent
- outwit; baffle
- cistern
- reservoir or water tank
- citadel
- fortress
- clamber
- climb by crawling
- clamor
- noise
- clangor
- loud, resounding noise
- clapper
- striker (tongue) of a bell
- clarion
- shrill, trumpetlike sound
- clavicle
- collarbone
- cleave
- split or sever; cling to; remain faithful to
- cleft
- split
- clemency
- disposition to be lenient; mildness, as of the weather
- climactic
- relating to the highest point
- clime
- region; climate
- cloister
- monastery or convent
- clout
- great influence (especially political or social)
- cloying
- distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental
- coagulate
- *thicken; congeal; clot
- coalesce
- combine; fuse
- coalition
- partnership; league; union
- coda
- *concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that rounds out, summarizes, or concludes
- codicil
- supplement to the body of a will
- codify
- arrange (laws, rules) as a code; classify
- coeval
- living at the same time as; contemporary
- cog
- tooth projecting from a wheel
- cogent
- *convincing
- cogitate
- think over
- cognate
- related linguistically; allied by blood; similar or akin in nature
- cognizance
- knowledge
- cohorts
- armed band
- coin
- make coins; invent or fabricate
- collate
- examine in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order
- collation
- a light meal
- colloquy
- informal discussion
- collusion
- conspiring in a fraudulent scheme
- colossus
- gigantic statue
- comely
- attractive; agreeable
- comestible
- something fit to be eaten
- comity
- courtesy; civility
- commandeer
- to draft for military purposes; to take for public use
- commensurate
- *corresponding in extent, degree, amount, etc..; proportionate
- commiserate
- feel or express pity or sympathy for
- commodious
- spacious and comfortable
- compact
- (second meaning) agreement; contract
- compendium
- *brief, comprehensive summary
- compilation
- listing of statistical information in tabular or book form
- complacency
- self-satisfaction; smugness
- complaisant
- *trying to please; overly polite; obliging
- compliant
- *yielding; conforming to requirements
- comport
- bear one's self; behave
- compound
- combine; constitute; pay interest; increase
- compunction
- remorse
- compute
- reckon; calculate
- concatenate
- link as in a chain
- conceit
- vanity or self-love; whimsical idea; extravagant metaphor
- concentric
- having a common center
- concerted
- mutually agreed on; done together
- conciliatory
- *reconciling; soothing
- conclave
- private meeting
- concoct
- prepare by combining; make up in concert
- concomitant
- that which accompanies
- concord
- harmony
- condescend
- bestow courtesies with a superior air
- condign
- appropriate; deserved (almost always, in the sense of deservedly severe, as in condign punishment)
- condole
- express sympathetic sorrow
- conduit
- aqueduct; passageway for fluids
- conflagration
- great fire
- conflate
- meld or fuse; confuse; combine into one
- confluence
- flowing together; crowd
- confound
- *confuse; puzzle
- condone
- *overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
- congeal
- freeze; coagulate
- congenial
- pleasant; friendly
- congenital
- existing at birth
- conifer
- pine tree; cone-bearing tree
- conjecture
- infer on the basis of insufficient data; surmise; guess
- conjugal
- pertaining to marriage
- conjure
- summon a devil; practice magic; imagine or invent
- connivance
- pretense of ignorance of something wrong; assistance; permission to offend
- connoisseur
- *person competent to act as a judge of art, etc.; a lover of art
- connubial
- pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state
- consanguinity
- kinship
- conscientious
- scrupulous; careful
- conscript
- draftee; person forced into military service
- consecrate
- dedicate; sanctify
- consequential
- pompous; self-important
- conservatory
- school of fine arts (especially music or drama)
- consign
- deliver officially; entrust; set apart
- consort
- (second meaning) husband or wife
- constituent
- supporter
- constraint
- compulsion; repression of feelings
- consummate
- wholly without flaw; supremely skilled; complete and utter
- contagion
- infection
- contention
- *claim; thesis
- contentious
- *quarrelsome
- context
- writings preceding and following the passage quoted
- contiguous
- adjacent to; touching upon
- continence
- self-restraint; sexual chastity
- contingent
- (second meaning) group that makes up part of a gathering
- contraband
- illegal trade; smuggling; smuggled goods
- contravene
- contradict; oppose; infringe on or transgress
- contrite
- *penitent
- controvert
- oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict
- contumacious
- disobedient; resisting authority
- contusion
- bruise
- conundrum
- *riddle; difficult problem
- converge
- *approach; tend to meet; come together
- conversant
- familiar with
- converse
- opposite
- convex
- curving outward
- conveyance
- vehicle; transfer
- convivial
- festive; gay; characterized by joviality
- convoke
- call together
- convoluted
- *coiled around; involved; intricate
- copious
- plentiful
- coquette
- flirt
- cordial
- gracious; heartfelt
- cordon
- extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress
- cornice
- projecting molding on building (usually above columns)
- cornucopia
- horn overflowing with fruit and grain; symbol of abundance
- corollary
- consequence; accompaniment
- corporeal
- bodily; material
- corpulent
- very fat
- corroborate
- confirm; support
- corrugated
- wrinkled; ridged
- coterie
- group that meets socially; select circle
- countenance
- (second meaning) face
- countermand
- cancel; revoke
- coup
- highly successful action or sudden attack
- covenant
- agreement
- covetous
- avaricious; eagerly desirous of
- cow
- terrorize; intimidate
- cozen
- cheat; hoodwink; swindle
- crabbed
- sour; peevish
- crass
- very unrefined; grossly insensible
- craven
- *cowardly
- credence
- belief
- credulity
- belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naiveté
- crotchety
- eccentric; whimsical
- cubicle
- small chamber used for sleeping
- cuisine
- style of cooking
- cull
- pick out; reject
- culpable
- deserving blame
- culvert
- artificial channel for water
- cumbersome
- heavy; hard to manage
- cupidity
- greed
- curator
- superintendent; manager
- curmudgeon
- churlish, miserly individual
- cursive
- flowing, running
- cursory
- casual; hastily done
- cynosure
- object of general attention