GRE LIST16

boisterous,loud/noisy/rough/lacking restraint

bolster,give greatly needed support

boorish,crude/offensive/rude

braid,strands of hair woven together/smth edging sloth or garments

brash,hasty/rush/cheeky/saucy

brass,yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)

brazen,made of brass

breach,opening/broken place/breaking

brisk,active/lively
brisket,breast of an animal

brittle,easily broken

broach,bring up/announce/begin to talk about

brook,to tolerate/endure

buoyant,able to float/light-hearted

burgeon,grow forth/send out buds

burnish,to polish/rub to a shine

bust,run out of money

cabal,a scheme or plot/a group of plotters

cadge,to beg/to get by begging

calipers,metal supports attached to the legs/measuring instrument

calumniate,to slander/present false accusal

calumny,slander/aspersion

candid,frank/straight-forward

canvass,discuss thotoughly/sort of touting

capricious,fickle/incalculable

capricious,fickle/whimsical/given to change/unpredictable

castigate,to chastise/correct by punishing

castigation,severe punishment

casual,happening by chance/careless

catalyst,substance that causes speeding up

caustic,biting/sarcastic

censure,expression of blame or disapproval/a rebuke

census,official counting of the population

centurion,leader of a unit of 100 soldiers

chary,cautious/wary

chastened,corrected/punished

chastisement,punishment

chauvinist,a blindly devoted patriot

chisel,steel tool for shaping materials

churl,bad-tempered person

cite,give as an example
clamor,shout/complain with a lot of noise

cleanse,make pure/thoroughly clean

cling to,resist separation

clot,half-solid lump formed from liquid

cloture,closing/device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting

coalescing,coming together and uniting into one substance

coax,get smb to do smth by kindness

coddle,treat with care and tenderness

codicil,a supplement to the body of a will