PSAT Vocab 60-80 Flashcards

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Bovine

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Having to do with cows, having features of a cow

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Bourgeois

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Middle Class, with narrow materialist needs

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Bravado

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Boldness intended to impress or intimidate

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Burgeon

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To expand, flourish, blossom

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Cabal

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A small group, linked in secret purpose, often in conspiracy

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Cajole

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To persuade, wheedle, coax

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Camaraderie

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Good friendship between comrades

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Canon

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A code of laws, a set standard that is the basis of judgement

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Careen

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To lurch or toss from side to side, to lean to a side

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Celibacy

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An abstinence from sex and sexual behaviors

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Censure

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To condemn severely, to judge or punish

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Cerebral

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Relating to the brain, the intellect

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Chagrin

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Embarrassment, humiliation, dissapoinment

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Choleric

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Easily angered and hot tempered

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Circuitous

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Indirect, roundabout, rambling

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Circumvent

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To frustrate by going around, to mislead, or evade

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Clandestine

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Secret, done secretly

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Clemency

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Leniency or mercy, mild weather

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Coalesce

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To form into a cohesive mass or unit, to come together as one

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Cogent

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Convincing, compelling, valid