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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.

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brusque

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adj. blunt; abrupt

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

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buccaneer

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n. pirate

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

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bucolic

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adj. rustic; pastoral

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

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buffet

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v. slap; batter; knock about

to buffet something is rough it up

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buffoonery

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n. clowning

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

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bulwark

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n. earthwork

the navy is our prinicpal bulwark against invasion

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bumptious

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adj self assertive

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

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bungle

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v. mismangae

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

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buoyant

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adj. able to float

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

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Burgeon

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v. grow forth

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

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Burlesque

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v. give an imitation that ridicules

On the comedy sitcom, the actors burlesque the celebrities

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burly

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adj. Husky

The weightlifter was very burly

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Burnish

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v. to polish

the maid burnished the wooden floors

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bustle

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v. move abt quickly

The lady in the crowed bustled her way to the train

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Buttress

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v. support

the lawyer made a buttress to support his weak argument

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Buxom

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adj. plump

The models are slim not buxom

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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

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Cache

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n. hiding place

the murder led the cops to his cache

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Cacophonous

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adj. inharmonious

The band made cacophonous sounds when practing

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Cadaver

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n. dead body

the doctors in training worked on a cadaver

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Candence

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N. rhythimic rise and fall

the marching band was in candence

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Cajole

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v. coax

he girl tried to coax her father into giving her money

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Calamity

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n. diaster

the news of calamity spread

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Caldron

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Large kettle

My mom told me to clean the caldron

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Caliber

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n. abliity

the school looked for high caliber students

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Callous

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adj. hardened

On the monkey bars the boy got callous’s

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callow

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adj. Youthful

the seniors made fun on the callow freshmans

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Calorific

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adj. heat producing

coal is more calorific than greenwood

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Calumny

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n Slander

The magazine wrote calumny about celebrites

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Camaraderie

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n. friendship

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

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Candor

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n. Frankness

Jack was can carry candor to far

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Canny

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adj. Thrifty

the canny scotman was more than a match for the swindlers

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Cant

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n. Falseness of piety

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

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Cantankerous

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adj. Irritable

The patient was cantakerous to the doctors

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Canter

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n. Slow gallop

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

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canto

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n. division in a long poem

dantes book was divided into canto’s

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Canvass

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v. determine votes

after canvassing the congressman knew he won

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Capacious

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adj. spacious

the new mansion was capacious

40
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Capitulate

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v. surrender

The enemy was warned to capitulate

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Capricious

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adj. fickle

the storm was capricious

42
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Captivate

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v. charm

the girls beauty was captivating

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Cardinal

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adj. chief

The cardinal rule of vocab. building is to read

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careen

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v. lurch

the taxi careened while turning the corner

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Caricature

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n. exaggerated pic

the artist made a caricature of the lady

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Carnal

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adj. fleshy

the playboy magazine was carnal

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Carping

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adj. to find fault

the carping critic rated the movie badly

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Castigate

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V. To criticize

the teacher castigated the rude school boy

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Cataclysm

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n. violent upheaval

the rev. was a political catalysm

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Catalyst

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agent that brings abt change

The american rev. was a catalyst for other rev.

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cataract

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n. great waterfall/film over the eye

she saw the great cataract, the niagra falls

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