Important Vocabulary - Letters B,C

These words have been selected from previous placement papers of different companies.

Vocabulary for letter B.
Baffle - Frustrate, perplex
Baleful – threatening, deadly, menacing
Balmy – mild, clement, pleasant, fragrant
  Usage: a balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast .
Banal - Stale, Common place, Usual
Baneful - Destructive, Harmful, cause of ruin
  Usage: Lucy’s little brother was the bane of her existence
Behest - request

Belated - too late
Belief - conviction
Bilk - baffle, cheat, elude*seek, inquire
 Usage: Jim bilked his father in a property issue.
Boisterous - energetic, animated, violent, rough, noisy
 Usage: the unruly crowd became more boisterous when he tried to quiet them
Brackish - salty, briny
 Usage: he found that only wells in the area were brackish.
Brazen - bold, shameless, insolent
 Usage: her brazen contempt for authority angered the officials.

Vocabulary for letter C
Callow – inexperienced, immature, youthful
 Usage: he made fun of freshers as callow youths
Candid –frank, open,*guarded
 Usage: Jamie is basically candid
Caprice - whim (impulse)
 Usage: she was an unpredictable creature acting on caprice.
Cargo - freight (load)
Cavil – quibble, complain, niggled, split hairs, carp, make frivolous objections
 Usage: I dislike the way you cavil about unimportant things.
Celibacy - Chastity, State of not being married
 Usage: He was celibate throughout his life.
Chaste - Pure, Modest, virginal
 Usage: he was chaste in doing the work.
Chide - Scold
 Usage: the principal chided the student.
Choleric - Hot Tempered, Irritate
 Usage: his angry face indicated her choleric nature.
Churlish - Boorish, Cruel, Rude
 Usage: she dismayed her friends by her churlish manners at the party.
Circuitous - Indirect in action or language, round about
 Usage: He had a circuitous approach towards the problem.
Claustrophobia - fear
Cleft - split, crack
 Usage: mountaineer grasped the edge of a cleft.

Vocabulary for letter A is here.

To know the exact pronunciation of the words, you may consult Encarta Dictionary.

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