GRE Cabal-Compunction
Terms
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- cabal
- a scheme or group of plotters
- cadge
- to beg, to get by begging
- cajole
- use flattery or deceit to persuade
- calipers
- metal supports attached to the legs, measuring instrument
- calumny
- slander, aspersion
- candid
- frank, straight-forward
- cant
- insincere talk/jargon
- cantankerous
- bad-tempered / quarrelsome
- canvass
- discuss thoroughly, sort of touting
- castigate
- to chastise, correct by punishing
- castigation
- severe punishment
- catalyst
- substance that causes speeding up
- caustic
- biting, sarcastic
- censure
- expression of blame or disapproval, a rebuke
- centurion
- leader of a 100-soldier unit
- chastened
- corrected, punished
- chastisement
- punished
- chicanery
- legal trickery, false argument
- chisel
- steel tool for shaping metals
- churl
- bad-tempered person
- clamor
- shout, complain with a lot of noise
- clinch
-
come to grips
settle conclusively - cloture
-
closing device (In Parliament)
to end a debate by voting - chauvinist
- a blindly devoted patriot
- coagulation
- change to a thick and solid state
- coax
- get someone to do something by kindness
- coda
- passage that completes a pice of music
- coddle
- treat with care and tenderness
- coerce
- compel, to force, to make obedient
- cogent
- strong, convincing
- cogitate
- think deeply, meditate
- cognizant
- being fully aware of
- colander
- bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain water
- collusion
- secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
- combustion
- process of burning
- commemorate
- keep the memory of
- commodious
- having plenty of space for what is needed
- complaisance
-
tending to comply
willingness to please - compunction
- feeling of regret for one's actions
- chary
- cautions, wary
- clot
- half-solid lump formed from liquid
- coalescing
- coming together and uniting in one substance
- coeval
-
of the same age, time or duration
co-exisitng