Flashcards: Bowyer 7
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kasielasserre1 on October 4, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 circumscribe | to encircle, set limits on, confine |
| circumspect | cautious, wary |
| citadel | fortress or stronghold |
| clamor | to make a noisy outcry |
| clandestine | secretive, concealed for a darker purpose |
| cleave | to split or seperate or to stick, cling, or adhere |
| cloister | to confine, seclude |
| coalesce | to grow together, cause to ignite as one |
| coerce | to compell by force or intimidation |
| cogent | logically forceful, compelling, convincing |
| cognate | related, similiar, akin |
| cognition | mental process by which knowledge is acquired |
| cognomen | family name; any name especially a nickname |
| coherent | intellegable, lucid, understandable |
| colloquial | characteristic of informal speech |
| collusion | collaberation, complicity, conspiracy |
| comeliness | physical grace and beauty |
| commensurate | proportional |
| commodious | roomy, spacious |
| communicable | transmittable |
| compatriot | fellow countryman |
| complacent | self-satisfied, smug, affable |
| compliant | submissive, yeilding |
| compulsive | obsessive, fanatic |
| concord | agreement |
| concur | to agree |
| condone | to pardon or forgive; over look, justify, excuse a fault |
| conflagration | big destructive fire |
| confluence | meeting place; meeting of two streams or rivers |
| congenial | similiar in taste or habits |
| conglomerate | collected group of varied things |
| congruity | correspondence, harmony, agreement |
| conjecture | speculation, prediction |
| connive | to conspire, scheme |
| consanguineous | of the same origin; related by blood |
| consecrate | to declare sacred; dedicate to a goal |
| consensus | unanimity, agreement of opinion or attitude |
| consonant | consistent with, in agreement with |
| construe | to explain or interpret |
| contentious | quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent |
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