Barron's GRE with sentences -Wordlist C 1/5
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A complete list of Barron's GRE Wordlist, with meanings and sentences.
The series has the entire wordlist split by alphabets, and also a mega complete wordlist, of all 3757 words.
This is Wordlist C.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cabal | small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests The cabal was defeated when its scheme was discovered. |
| cache | hiding place The detectives followed the suspects until he led them to the cache where he had stored his loot. |
| cacophony | discord Some people seem to enjoy the cacophony of an orchestra that is tuning up. |
| cadaver | corpse |
| cadaverous | like a corpse; pale From his cadaverous appearance, we could see how the disease had ravaged him. |
| cadence | rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds); beat Marching down the road, the troops sang out, following the cadence set by the sergeant. |
| cajole | coax; wheedle (dỗ ngọt để ai đó làm lợi cho bản thân) I will not be cajoled into granting your wish. |
| calamity | disaster; misery As news of the calamity spread, offers of relief poured in to the stricken community. |
| caliber | ability; capacity A man of such caliber should not be assigned such menial tasks. |
| calligraphy | beautiful writing; excellent penmanship As we examine ancient manuscripts, we became impressed with the calligraphy of the scribes. |
| callous | hardened; unfeeling; heartless (He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was callous to the suffering in the wards.) |
| callow | youthful; immature In that youthful movement, the leaders were only a little less callow than their immature followers. |
| calorific | heat-producing Coal is much more calorific than green wood. |
| calumny | malicious misrepresentation He could endure his financial failure, but he could not bear the calumny that his foes heaped upon him. |
| camaraderie | good-fellowship-friendship |
| cameo | shell or jewel carved in relief do trang suc da cham |
| canard | rumor tin vit |
| candor | frankness- probity - incorruptibility |
| canine | related to dogs; doglike Some days the canine population of Berkeley seems almost to outnumber the human population. |
| canker | any ulcerous sore; any evil (bệnh viêm loét, mục nát) Poverty is a canker in the body politic; it must be cured. |
| canny | a 1.shrewd, smart;2. thrifty |
| cant | pious phraseology; jargon of criminals (Angry that the president had slashed the education budget, we dismissed his speech on the importance of education as mere cant. lời đạo đức giả) |
| cantankerous | ill-humored; irritable- irascible Constantly complaining about his treatment and refusing to cooperate with the hospital staff, he was a cantankerous patient. |
| cantata | story set to music, to be sung by a chorus The choral society sang the new cantata composed by its leader. |
| canter | n v. gallop phi nuoc kieu |
| canto | division of a long poem Dante's poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy is divided into cantos. |
| canvass | determine or seek opinions, votes, etc. van dong bau cu |
| capacious | spacious In the capacious areas of the railroad terminal, thousands of travelers lingered while waiting for their train. |
| capillary | having a very fine bore |
| capitulate | surrender The enemy was warned to capitulate or face annihilation. |
| caprice | whim She was an unpredictable creature, acting on caprice, never taking thought of the consequences. |
| capricious | fickle; incalculable The storm was capricious and changed course constantly. |
| caption | title; chapter heading; text under illustration I find the captions that accompany these cartoons very clever and humorous. |
| captious; carping | faultfinding; carping, critical, hypercritical, overcritical His criticisms were always captious and frivolous, never offering constructive suggestions. |
| carafe | glass water bottle With each dinner, the patron receives a carafe of red or white wine. |
| carapace | shell covering the back (of a turtle, crab, etc) (cái mai) At the children's zoo, Richard perched on top of the giant turtle's hard carapace as it slowly made its way around the enclosure. |
| carat | unit of weight for precious stones; measure of fineness of gold He gave her a diamond that weighed three carats and was mounted in an eighteen-carat gold band. |
| carcinogenic | causing cancer Many supposedly harmless substances have been revealed to be carcinogenic. |
| cardinal | chief If you want to increase your word power, the cardinal rule of vocabulary-building is to read. |
| careen | lurch; sway from side to side (lao dao) The taxicab careened wildly as it rounded the corner. |
| caricature | distortion; burlesque buc biem hoa |
| carillon | set of bells capable of being played The carillon in the bell tower of the Coca-Cola pavilion at the New York World's Fair provided musical entertainment every hour. |
| carnage | destruction of life (sự tàn sát) The carnage that can be caused by atomic warfare adds to the responsibilities of our statesmen. |
| carnal | fleshly thuoc xac thit, thuoc nhuc duc |
| carnivorous | meat-eating The lion is a carnivorous animal. |
| carousal | drunken revel (cuộc chè chén) The party degenerated into an ugly carousal. |
| carping | fault-finding; captious; critical (Welcoming constructive criticism, Lexy appreciated her editor's comments, finding them free of carping.) |
| carrion | rotting flesh of a dead body Buzzards are nature's scavengers; they eat the carrion left behind by other predators. |
| cartographer | map-maker Though not a professional cartographer, Tolkien was able to construct a map of the fictional world. |
| cascade | n. small waterfall |
| caste | one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society, social stratification; prestige (giai cấp) (The differences created by caste in India must be wiped out if true democracy is to prevail in that country.) |
| castigation | punishment; severe criticism Sensitive even to mild criticism, Woolf could not bear castigation that she found in certain reviews. |
| casualty | serious or fatal accident (tai nạn - nạn nhân) The number of automotive casualties on this holiday weekend was high. |
| cataclysm | deluge; upheaval. bien dong lon |
| catalyst | agent that brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged Many chemical reactions cannot take place without the presence of a catalyst. |
| catapult | slingshot; hurling machine Airplanes are sometimes launched from battleships by catapults. |
| cataract | great waterfall |
| catastrophe | calamity The Johnstown flood was a catastrophe. |
| catechism | book for religious instruction; instruction by question and answer He taught by engaging his pupils in a catechism until they gave him the correct answer. |
| categorical | without exceptions; unqualified; absolute Though the captain claimed he was never, never sick at sea, he finally qualified his categorical denial; he was hardly ever sick at sea. |
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