gre考试词汇：2012新GRE阅读词汇笔记（38）

cavalcade

procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages; parade; CF. cavalry

cavalier

casual and offhand; arrogant; N: knight

cavil

quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily

cede

yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession

celerity

speed; rapidity

celestial

heavenly

celibate

abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy

cemetery

place for burying the dead

censor

(in ancient Rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census); person who eliminates inappropriate matter; V.

censorious

severely critical

censure

blame; criticize; express strong disapproval; N: severe criticism; strong disapproval

centaur

mythical figure, half man and half horse

centigrade

denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius)

centrifugal

radiating; departing from the center

centrifuge

machine that separates substances by whirling them

centripetal

tending toward the center

centurion

Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers)

cerebral

pertaining to the brain or intellect; intellectual rather than emotional; CF. cerebrum