Units 11-15

Question 1

bucolic

Answer 1

adj, characteristic of the countryside; rustic; pastoral

Question 2

burgeon

Answer 2

v, to flourish

Question 3

burnish

Answer 3

v, to polish

Question 4

buttress

Answer 4

b, to reinforce; support

Question 5

cacophonous, cacophony

Answer 5

adj, unpleasant or harsh-sounding n; a jarring unpleasant noise

Question 6

cadge

Answer 6

v, to beg; sponge

Question 7

callous

Answer 7

adj, thick-skinned; inssensitive

Question 8

calumny

Answer 8

n, false and malicious accusation; slander

Question 9

canard

Answer 9

n, false, deliberately misleading story

Question 10

canon, canonical

Answer 10

n, an established principle; a basis or standard for judgement; a group of literary works adj adj, to belong to a group of literary works

Question 11

cant

Answer 11

n, insincere talk; language of a particular group

Question 12

cantankerous

Answer 12

adj, irritable; ill-humored

Question 13

capricious, caprice

Answer 13

adj, fickle n, an inclination to change one’s mind compulsively

Question 14

captious

Answer 14

adj, faultfinding; intended to entrap, as in an argument

Question 15

cardinal

Answer 15

adj, of foremost importance

Question 16

carnal

Answer 16

adj, of the flesh or body; related to physical appetites

Question 17

carping

Answer 17

v, to find fault; complain

Question 18

cartography

Answer 18

n, science of making maps

Question 19

caste

Answer 19

n, any of the hereditary social classes of Hindu society; social stratification adj

Question 20

castigation

Answer 20

n, punishment; chastisement; critcism

Question 21

cataclysm

Answer 21

n, a violent upheaval that causes great destruction and change

Question 22

catalyst

Answer 22

n, something causing change

Question 23

categorical

Answer 23

adj, absolute; without exception

Question 24

caucus

Answer 24

n, smaller group within an organization

Question 25

causal

Answer 25

adj, involving cause

Question 26

caustic

Answer 26

adj, sarcastically biting; burning

Question 27

celestial

Answer 27

adj, concerning the sky or heavens; sublime

Question 28

centrifugal

Answer 28

adj, moving away from a center

Question 29

centripetal

Answer 29

adj, moving or directed toward a center

Question 30

champion

Answer 30

v, to defend or support

Question 31

chasten

Answer 31

v, to correct by punishment or reproof; to restrain or subdue

Question 32

chicanery

Answer 32

n, trickery; fraud

Question 33

chivalry

Answer 33

n, the qualities idealized by knighthood such as bravery and gallantry toward women

Question 34

churlish

Answer 34

adj, rude; boorish

Question 35

circuitous

Answer 35

adj, roundabout

Question 36

clairvoyant

Answer 36

n, one who can predict the future; psychic

Question 37

clamor

Answer 37

n, noisy outcry v, to cry out noisily

Question 38

clique

Answer 38

n, a small, exclusive group

Question 39

cloister, clistered

Answer 39

v, to confine; seclude n, monastery or convent adj, shut away from the world

Question 40

coagulate

Answer 40

v, thicken; congeal

Question 41

coalesce

Answer 41

v, to cause to become one

Question 42

coda

Answer 42

n, concluding part of a literary or musical composition; something that summarizes or concludes

Question 43

codify, codification, codified

Answer 43

v, to systematize n adj

Question 44

cognizant

Answer 44

adj, informed; conscious; aware

Question 45

collage

Answer 45

n, artistic composition of materials pasted over a surface; an assemblage of diverse elements

Question 46

commensurate

Answer 46

adj, proportional

Question 47

compendium

Answer 47

n, a brief, comprehensive summary

Question 48

complacent

Answer 48

adj, self-satisfied

Question 49

complasient

Answer 49

adj, overly polite; willing to please; obliging

Question 50

complement

Answer 50

n, something that completes or makes up a whole