GRE常考形容词（三）
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bootless :: useless bountiful :: generous; showing bounty brazen :: insolent bristling :: rising like bristles; showing irritation brusque :: blunt; abrupt bucolic :: rustic; pastoral bumptious :: self-assertive buxom :: plump; vigorous; jolly cadaverous :: like a corpse; pale callous :: hardened; unfeeling calorific :: heat-producing canny :: shrewd; thrifty capacious :: spacious capricious :: fickle; incalculable captious :: faultfinding carnal :: fleshly carnivorous :: meat-eating carping :: finding fault catholic :: broadly sympathetic; liberal caustic :: burning; sarcastically biting celestial :: heavenly celibate :: unmarried; abstaining from sexual intercourse centigrade :: measure of temperature used widely in Europe centrifugal :: radiating; departing from the center cerebral :: pertaining to the brain of intellect chaffing :: bantering; joking chaotic :: in utter disorder chary :: cautiously watchful chaste :: pure checkered :: marked by changes in fortune chimerical :: fantastic; highly imaginative choleric :: hot-tempered chronic :: long established as a disease churlish :: boorish; rude ciliated :: having minute hairs circuitous :: roundabout circumspect :: prudent; cautious clairvoyant :: having foresight clandestine :: secret clarion :: shrill trumpetlike sound climactic :: relating to the highest point cogent :: convincing cognate :: allied by blood; of the same or kindred nature coincident :: occurring at the same time colossal :: huge combustible :: easily burned comely :: attractive; agreeable commensurate :: equal in extent commodious :: spacious and comfortable compatible :: harmonious; in harmony with complacent :: self-satisfied complaisant :: trying to please; obliging compliant :: yielding concentric :: having a common center concise :: brief and compact concurrent :: happening at the same time condign :: adequate; deservedly severe |
