Vocabulary for the College Bound Chapter 3
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15 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 bombast | impressive but meaningless language |
| bona fide | in good faith |
| boor | a rude or impolite (country) person |
| bovine | pertaining to cows or cattle |
| bowdlerize | to remove offensive passages of a play, novel, etc. |
| brevity | briefness; short duration |
| bucolic | pertaining to the countryside; rural; rustic |
| cajole | to coax; to persuade; to wheedle |
| callow | young and inexperienced |
| carcinogen | causing cancer (noun) |
| carnal | sensual; sexual (of the flesh) |
| carrion | decaying flesh |
| cataclysm | violent change |
| cataract | large waterfall; abnormality of the eye |
| caveat | a warning |
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