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Question 1

castigate

Answer 1

to criticize severely, to chastise

Question 2

capricious

Answer 2

unpredictable, likely to change at any moment

Question 3

capitulate

Answer 3

to surrender, to give up or give in

Question 4

capitalism

Answer 4

free enterprise, an economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens, not by the government and in which the resulting products and services are sold with relatively little government control

Question 5

candor

Answer 5

truthfulness, sincere honesty

Question 6

callow

Answer 6

immature

Question 7

cajole

Answer 7

to persuade someone to do something he or she doesn’t want to do

Question 8

cadence

Answer 8

rhythm, the rise and fall of sounds

Question 9

cacophony

Answer 9

harsh-souning mixture of words, voices, or sounds

Question 10

burlesque

Answer 10

a ludicrous, mocking, or exaggerated imitation

Question 11

burgeon

Answer 11

to expand, to flourish

Question 12

bureaucracy

Answer 12

a system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially on run according to inflexible and inefficient rules, any larger administrative system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules and red tape

Question 13

bucolic

Answer 13

charmingly rural, rustic, countrylike

Question 14

broach

Answer 14

to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject

Question 15

brevity

Answer 15

briefness

Question 16

bourgeois

Answer 16

middle class, usually in a pejorative sense, boringly conventional

Question 17

blithe

Answer 17

carefree, cheerful

Question 18

blight

Answer 18

a disease in plants, anything that injures or destroys

Question 19

blatant

Answer 19

unpleasantly or offensively noisy, glaring

Question 20

blasphemy

Answer 20

irrevernce, an insult to something held sacred, profanity

Question 21

beset

Answer 21

to harass, to surround