SAT words from 'burgess' to 'cardiac'
Words alphabetically from 'burgess' to 'cardiac' from the monster 5000-word at http://www.freevocabulary.com/
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- burgess
- In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia.
- burgher
- An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
- burnish
- To make brilliant or shining.
- bursar
- A treasurer.
- bustle
- To hurry.
- butt
- To strike with or as with the head, or horns.
- butte
- A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
- buttress
- Any support or prop.
- by-law
- A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like.
- cabal
- A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.
- cabalism
- Superstitious devotion to one's religion.
- cabinet
- The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
- cacophony
- A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
- cadaverous
- Resembling a corpse.
- cadence
- Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.
- cadenza
- An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
- caitiff
- Cowardly.
- cajole
- To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.
- cajolery
- Delusive speech.
- calculable
- That may be estimated by reckoning.
- calculus
- A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
- callosity
- The state of being hard and insensible.
- callow
- Without experience of the world.
- calorie
- Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade.
- calumny
- Slander.
- Calvary
- The place where Christ was crucified.
- Calvinism
- The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin.
- Calvinize
- To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism.
- came
- A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
- cameo
- Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
- campaign
- A complete series of connected military operations.
- Canaanite
- A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.
- canary
- Of a bright but delicate yellow.
- candid
- Straightforward.
- candor
- The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
- canine
- Characteristic of a dog.
- canon
- Any rule or law.
- cant
- To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
- cantata
- A choral composition.
- canto
- One of the divisions of an extended poem.
- cantonment
- The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
- capacious
- Roomy.
- capillary
- A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
- capitulate
- To surrender or stipulate terms.
- caprice
- A whim.
- caption
- A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc.
- captious
- Hypercritical.
- captivate
- To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
- carcass
- The dead body of an animal.
- cardiac
- Pertaining to the heart.