Roots or stem

Question 1

brunt

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n. main impact or shock.

Tom sawyer claimed credit for painting the fence, but the brunt of the work fell on others.

Question 2

brusque

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adj. blunt; abrupt

was bruce too brusque when he brushed off bob’s request with a curt “not now!”?

Question 3

buccaneer

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n. pirate

at disneyland the pirates of the caribbean sing a song about their lives as bloody buccaneers

Question 4

bucolic

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adj. rustic; pastoral

dilled with browsing cows and bleating sheep, the meadow was a charmingly buclic sight

Question 5

buffet

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v. slap; batter; knock about

to buffet something is rough it up

Question 6

buffoonery

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n. clowning

in the ace ventura movies, jim carrey’s buffoonery was hilarious

Question 7

bulwark

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n. earthwork

the navy is our prinicpal bulwark against invasion

Question 8

bumptious

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adj self assertive

his classmates called him a show off bc of his bumptious airs

Question 9

bungle

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v. mismangae

dont botch the assignment, Holmes, if you bungle the job you’re fired

Question 10

buoyant

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adj. able to float

The life save was buoyant, bc it floated in the water

Question 11

Burgeon

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v. grow forth

the plants that burgeon in the spring are going to be pretty

Question 12

Burlesque

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v. give an imitation that ridicules

On the comedy sitcom, the actors burlesque the celebrities

Question 13

burly

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adj. Husky

The weightlifter was very burly

Question 14

Burnish

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v. to polish

the maid burnished the wooden floors

Question 15

bustle

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v. move abt quickly

The lady in the crowed bustled her way to the train

Question 16

Buttress

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v. support

the lawyer made a buttress to support his weak argument

Question 17

Buxom

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adj. plump

The models are slim not buxom

Question 18

cabal

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n. small group of ppl that secretkey untied to promote thier self intrests.
the cabal was defeated when their plan was discovered

Question 19

Cache

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n. hiding place

the murder led the cops to his cache

Question 20

Cacophonous

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adj. inharmonious

The band made cacophonous sounds when practing

Question 21

Cadaver

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n. dead body

the doctors in training worked on a cadaver

Question 22

Candence

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N. rhythimic rise and fall

the marching band was in candence

Question 23

Cajole

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v. coax

he girl tried to coax her father into giving her money

Question 24

Calamity

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n. diaster

the news of calamity spread

Question 25

Caldron

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Large kettle

My mom told me to clean the caldron

Question 26

Caliber

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n. abliity

the school looked for high caliber students

Question 27

Callous

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adj. hardened

On the monkey bars the boy got callous’s

Question 28

callow

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adj. Youthful

the seniors made fun on the callow freshmans

Question 29

Calorific

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adj. heat producing

coal is more calorific than greenwood

Question 30

Calumny

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n Slander

The magazine wrote calumny about celebrites

Question 31

Camaraderie

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n. friendship

Steve loved his job due to the camaraderie btw his co workers

Question 32

Candor

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n. Frankness

Jack was can carry candor to far

Question 33

Canny

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adj. Thrifty

the canny scotman was more than a match for the swindlers

Question 34

Cant

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n. Falseness of piety

The rumors about the preachers infieldity was dismissed as cant by his followers

Question 35

Cantankerous

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adj. Irritable

The patient was cantakerous to the doctors

Question 36

Canter

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n. Slow gallop

The horse did so well the reporter said the horse won the race in a canter

Question 37

canto

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n. division in a long poem

dantes book was divided into canto’s

Question 38

Canvass

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v. determine votes

after canvassing the congressman knew he won

Question 39

Capacious

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adj. spacious

the new mansion was capacious

Question 40

Capitulate

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v. surrender

The enemy was warned to capitulate

Question 41

Capricious

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adj. fickle

the storm was capricious

Question 42

Captivate

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v. charm

the girls beauty was captivating

Question 43

Cardinal

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adj. chief

The cardinal rule of vocab. building is to read

Question 44

careen

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v. lurch

the taxi careened while turning the corner

Question 45

Caricature

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n. exaggerated pic

the artist made a caricature of the lady

Question 46

Carnal

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adj. fleshy

the playboy magazine was carnal

Question 47

Carping

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adj. to find fault

the carping critic rated the movie badly

Question 48

Castigate

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V. To criticize

the teacher castigated the rude school boy

Question 49

Cataclysm

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n. violent upheaval

the rev. was a political catalysm

Question 50

Catalyst

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agent that brings abt change

The american rev. was a catalyst for other rev.

Question 51

cataract

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n. great waterfall/film over the eye

she saw the great cataract, the niagra falls