PSAT Vocab 60-80 Flashcards
Bovine
Having to do with cows, having features of a cow
Bourgeois
Middle Class, with narrow materialist needs
Bravado
Boldness intended to impress or intimidate
Burgeon
To expand, flourish, blossom
Cabal
A small group, linked in secret purpose, often in conspiracy
Cajole
To persuade, wheedle, coax
Camaraderie
Good friendship between comrades
Canon
A code of laws, a set standard that is the basis of judgement
Careen
To lurch or toss from side to side, to lean to a side
Celibacy
An abstinence from sex and sexual behaviors
Censure
To condemn severely, to judge or punish
Cerebral
Relating to the brain, the intellect
Chagrin
Embarrassment, humiliation, dissapoinment
Choleric
Easily angered and hot tempered
Circuitous
Indirect, roundabout, rambling