Study GRE Master Word List 7 Flash Cards

 
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GRE Master Word List 7

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canter
slow gallop
cantata
story set to music
cantakerous
ill-humored
cant
insincere espressions of devotion and obedience
canon
collection of books or a rule or principle
canny
thrifty
canker
ulcerous sore; any evil
candor
frankness
canard
fabricated report
calumny
slander; malicious misrepresentation
calorific
heat-producing
callow
youthful
caldron
large kettle
calamity
disaster
cadge
beg; mooch
cadence
rhythmic
cacophonous
inharmonious
cache
hiding place
cabal
small group of secretely united people
buxom
plump; full-bosomed
buttress
support; prop up
burnish
polshing, make shiny by rubbing
burlesque
an imitation that redicules, to make fun of someone or something
burgeon
grow forth; set our buds
bungle
blunder
bulwark
strong defense
bullion
gold and silver bars
bugaboo
object of baseless terror
buffet
slap; knock about
bucolic
rustic
bucaneer
pirate
brusque
blunt; abrupt
browbeat
bully; intimidate
brook
tolerate, endure
brooch
ornament clasp
brocade
rich, figured fabric
broach
open up, introduce
bristling
showing irritation
brindled
grayish with streaks or spots
brevity
conciseness, expressing much in few words
breadth
width
brazen
dissrespectful
brandish
wave around; flourish
braggart
boaster
braggadocio
boasting
brackish
somewhat saline
bowdlerize
expurgate
bovine
cowlike, placid and dull
bourgeois
middle class; materialistic
boorish
rude
boon
blessing; benefit
bombastic
pompous
bolster
support; reinforce
boisterous
violent
bohemian
unconventional
bode
foreshadow
bluster
blow in heavy gusts or empty threat
Blunder
error
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