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Ephermeral |
lasting a very short time, short-lived; momentary |
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Equanimity |
mental/emotional stability or composure; calmess |
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Estrange |
turn away in feeling or affection; separate |
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Ethereal |
extremely delicate |
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Exculpate |
to clear from a charge or guilt; excuse |
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Facile |
moving, acting, working, etc. with ease |
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Fastidious |
excessively particular, critical, or demanding |
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Fatuous |
foolish, silly |
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Ferocity |
a ferocious quality or state, savage fierceness |
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Fervent |
having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, etc. |
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Fervid |
enthusiastic |
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Flaccid |
soft & limp, not firm, lacking force, weak |
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Foreboding |
to foretell or predict |
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Furrow |
narrow groove made in the ground |
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Furtive |
secretive |
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Gaunt |
extremely thin or bony; emaciated |
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Gratuitous |
without charge or payment |
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Gravity |
serious or critical nature |
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Effigy |
crude representation |
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Effusion |
unrestrained expression |
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Enfranchise |
to set free, liberate, admit to citizenship |
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Enervation |
deprive of force or strength, weaken |
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Deprecate |
express earnest disaproval of, belittle |
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Defamation |
false or unjustified injury of good reputation |
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Declivity |
downward slope |
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Cynical |
distrusting, contemptuous, pessimistic |
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Cumbersome |
burdensome, troublesome, clumsy |
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Celestial |
pertaining to sky or heaven, divine |
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Deference |
respectful or courteous regard, politeness |
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Desultory |
lacking in consistency, random |
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Dubious |
doubtful, indecisive |
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Despondency |
depression of spirits, dejection |
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Deft |
dexterous, nimble, skillfull, clever |
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Cursory |
hasty, careless, hurried |
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Daunt |
overcome with fear, intimidate, discourage |
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Domicile |
place of residence, dwelling |
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Dissipation |
wasting by misuse, diversion, amusement |
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Debase |
reduce in quality or value, adulterate, corrupt, degrade |
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Circuitous |
roundabout, not direct |
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Effervescent |
bubbling, vivacious, lively |
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Dogmatic |
opinionated |
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Dogma |
system or principles, doctrine, opinion, rule |
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Diurnal |
daily, common, everyday |
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Discern |
recognize, distinguish, discriminate |
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Deterrent |
intereferes with or delays action, restraint |
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Abase |
lower, humiliate |
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Abash |
to embarrass |
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Abate |
to lessen |
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Abominate |
to loathe, hate |
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Abstruse |
profound; difficult to understand |
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Accentuate |
to strees, emphasize |
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Acclivity |
sharp incline of a hill |
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Accolade |
award, honor |
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Accost |
to approach and speak to |
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Adroit |
skillful |
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Adulate |
to flatter and praise so much it's sickening |
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Adulterate |
to make impure |
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Adumbrate |
to foreshadow by disclosing only partially |
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Adverse |
hostile, opposed, unfavorable |
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Advocate |
to urge, recommend |
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Aesthetic |
artistic, pertaining to a sense of what is beautiful |
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Affected |
fake |
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Affinity |
attraction |
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Affluent |
rich |
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Affray |
public brawl |
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Agape |
open-mouthed |
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Aghast |
horrified |
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Agile |
able to movev in a quick and easy fashion |
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Alacrity |
cheerful promptness |
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Alias |
false name |
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Alimentary |
supplying nourishment |
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Allay |
to soothe, to make more bearable |
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Alleged |
stated without proof |
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Alleviate |
to make more bearable |
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Allude |
to refer indirectly |
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Allusion |
a reference to something |
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Altercation |
a violent dispute |
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Amass |
to collect, to get a bunch of |
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Ambulatory |
able to walk |
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Ameliorate |
to improve a bad situation |
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Amity |
peaceful relations, friendship |
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Amnesia |
loss of memory |
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Amok |
freaked out and violently pissed off |
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Amorphous |
shapeless |
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Anthropoid |
humanlike |
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Antipathy |
hatred, aversion, dislike |
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Apathetic |
indifferent, showing lack of interest |
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Apathy |
indifference, lack of interest |
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Apex |
tip, peak, summit, way up there |
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Appease |
to soothe, placate |
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Arbitrary |
chosen at random or without apparent reason |
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Ardor |
heat, passion, zeal |
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Askew |
crooked, off to one side |
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Assuage |
to easy, pacify |
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Astute |
shrewd, wise, observing |
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Attribute |
(n) a characteristic, usually a good one (v) to explain by indicating a cause |
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Atypical |
not typical |
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Audacity |
boldness |
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August |
majestic, awe-inspiring |
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Austerity |
severity, strictness |
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Averse |
opposed, unwlling |
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Avuncular |
a funky word meaning "like an uncle" |
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Awry |
twisted, crooked, out of whack, askew, wrong |
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Bacchanalian |
orgiastic, like wild drunken reveory |
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Baleful |
something that exerts an evil influence or foreshadows evil |
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Baneful |
something that is poisonous or deadly |
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Barrister |
Lawyer |
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Bawdy |
obscene, coarse, humourous |
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Beatific |
displaying or imparting joy |
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Begrudge |
to envy, to resent |
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Beguile |
trick |
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Belated |
delayed, late |
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Bellicose |
violent, warlike |
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Benevolent |
kind |
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Berate |
to scold severely |
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Bereft |
lacking something needed |
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Betroth |
to become engaged |
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Biennial |
every two years |
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Bland |
not stimulating, dull |
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Blandishment |
flattery |
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Blighted |
ruined, destroyed, withered |
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Boisterous |
rowdy |
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Bombastic |
grandiloquent (wordy, pompous) in speech or writing |
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Braggadocio |
cockiness, a braggart |
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Brevity |
briefness |
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Brusque |
brief, curt, gruff, discourteous |
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Bucolic |
pastoral, typical of farms and rural life |
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Bumptious |
self-assertive |
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Burgeon |
to grow, sprout, flourish |
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Burnish |
to polish |
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Cache |
hiding place |
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Cacophonous |
sounding discordant, terrible and generally unpleasant to listen to |
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Cadaver |
corpse |
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Cajole |
to coax |
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Callous |
unfeeling, unsympathetic |
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Calumniate |
to slander |
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Calumny |
slander, defamation |
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Candor |
frankness, candidness |
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Cantankerous |
ill-natured, quarrelsome |
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Capacious |
spacious |
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Capitulate |
to surrender |
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Capricious |
unpredictable, following whim |
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Captious |
fault-finding |
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Carrion |
rotting flesh |
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Castigate |
to punish |
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Cathartic |
cleansing, allowing a release of tension or emotion |
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Caustic |
burning, characterized by a bitter wit |
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Cauterize |
to burn tissue |
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Cavil |
to raise unnecessary or trivial objecctions |
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Celerity |
switfness, speed |
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Celibate |
without sex, unmarried |
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Censor |
(v) to remove inapproriate stuff (n) someone who censors things |
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Censure |
to criticize, blame |
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Cerebration |
thought |
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Chagrin |
embarrassment |
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Chaos |
sate of utter confusion |
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Charlatan |
quack, someone who pretends he's someone he's not |
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Chaste |
pure, unspoiled, virginal |
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Chicanery |
trickery |
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Chimerical |
far out, bizarre, really heady |
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Choleric |
hot-tempered, easily made "hot under the collar" |
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Churlish |
boorish, rude |
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Ciliated |
having tiny hairs |
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Clemency |
mildness of temper |
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Cogent |
clear, logical, well-thought out |
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Cogitate |
to think about deeply and carefully |
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Cognizant |
fully informed and aware, conscious |
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Comely |
attractive, agreeable |
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Comestible |
food |
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Commensurate |
equal, proportionate |
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Commiserate |
to sympathize, be miserable together |
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Comport |
to behave in a particular way |
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Compunction |
strong uneasiness caused by guilt |
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Concupiscence |
sexual desire, lust, sensuality |
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Concurrent |
at the same time |
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Congenital |
exisiting at birth |
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Conjecture |
statement made without adequate evidence |
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Conjugal |
pertaining to marriage |
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Contort |
twist, bend |
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Contrition |
remorse, repentance, bitter regret felt owing to wrongdoing |
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Controversial |
of, relating to, or causing dispute |
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Convoke |
to call together, to cause to assemble |
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Corp- |
a rood meaning "body" |
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Corporal |
of the body, bodily |
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Corpulent |
obese, having a fat body |
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Corroborate |
to testify in agreement |
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Countermand |
to cancel a command |
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Covert |
concealed, secret |
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Cower |
to quiver, shrink from fear |
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Crass |
uncultured |
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Credulity |
gullibility |
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Crestfallen |
dejected |
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Crux |
main point, central issue, heart of the matter |
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Cull |
to select, weed out |
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Cupidity |
greed, avarice |
