List 2B Flashcards
actuate
To move or incite to action.
acumen
Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination.
acute
Having fine and penetrating discernment.
badger
To pester.
baffle
To foil or frustrate.
baleful
Malignant.
barring
Apart from.
bask
To make warm by genial heat.
baste
To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
battalion
A body of infantry composed of two or more companies.
bauble
A trinket.
bawl
To proclaim by outcry.
beatify
To make supremely happy.
beatitude
Any state of great happiness.
beau
An escort or lover.
becalm
To make quiet.
bedaub
To smear over, as with something oily or sticky.
bedeck
To cover with ornament.
bedlam
Madhouse.
befog
To confuse.
beget
To produce by sexual generation.
cabal
A number of persons secretly united for effecting some private purpose.
cadence
Rhythmical or measured flow or movement.
cadenza
An embellishment for a solo voice or instrument.
caitiff
Cowardly.
cajolery
Delusive speech.
calculable
That may be estimated by reckoning.
callosity
The state of being hard and insensible.
callow
Without experience of the world.
calumny
Slander.
candor
The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
canine
Characteristic of a dog.
cant
To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
capacious
Roomy.
capitulate
To surrender or stipulate terms.
caprice
A whim.
captious
Hypercritical.
captivate
To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
carcass
The dead body of an animal.
cardiac
Pertaining to the heart.
cardinal
Of prime or special importance.
carnage
Massacre.
carnal
Sensual.
carouse
To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
carrion
Dead and putrefying flesh.
cartilage
An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
caste
The division of society on artificial grounds.
castigate
To punish.
casualty
A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
cataclysm
Any overwhelming flood of water.
