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Concomitant

Compliant

Conjugal

Compunction

Concave

Conciliatory

Concoct

Compendium

Complaisant

Complement

Cloister

Cloistered

Chasten

Caustic

Centrifugal

Centripetal

Caucus

Castigation

Carping

Carnal

Captious

Cant

Callous

Canon

Burnish

Cadge

Bovine

Brazen

Broach

Beneficent

Bifurcate

Blandishment

Blasé

Bawdy

Beatify

Bedizen

Belie

Axiomatic

Avarice

Aver

Avocation

Attenuate

Austere

Assuage

Astringent

Asperity

Aspersion

Argot

Ardor

Appellation

Apposite

Apprise

Approbation

Archaeology

Apothegm

Appease

Apex

Apogee

Anodyne

Anomalous

Analgesic

Ameliorate

Ambrosia

Allay

Alleviate

Alloy

Aggrandize

Admonish

Accretion

Abstemious

Abscission

Abjure

Abject

Abeyance

Abate

Abdicate

n. existing concurrently

adj. yielding

adj. pertaining to marriage agreement

n. uneasiness caused by guilt

adj. curving inward

adj. overcoming distrust or hostility

v. to invent

n. brief, comprehensive summary

adj. overly polite; willing to please; obliging

n. something that completes or makes up a whole

v. to confine; seclude

adj. shut away from the world

v. to correct by punishment or reproof; to restrain or subdue

adj. sarcastically biting; burning

adj. moving away from a center

adj. moving or directed towarrd a center

n. smaller group within an organization

n. punishment; chastisement; criticism

v. to find fault; complain

adj. of the flesh or body; related to physical appetites

adj. faultfinding; intended to entrap, as in an argument

n. insincere talk; language of a particular group

adj. thick-skinned; insensitive

n. an established principle; a basis or standard for judgment; a group of literary works

v. to polish

v. to beg; sponge

adj. cowlike

adj. bold; shameless

v. to mention for the first time

adj. kindly; doing good

v. to divide into two parts

n. flattery

adj. bored because of frequent indulgence; unconcerned

adj. obscene

v. to sanctify; to bless; to ascribe a virtue to

v. to dress in a vulgar, showy manner

v. to contradict; misrepresent; give a false impression

adj. taken for granted

n. greed

v. to affirm; to declare to be true

n. secondary occupation

v. to weaken

adj. stern; unadorned

v. to make less severe

adj. harsh; severe

n. severity; harshness; irritability

n. slander; false rumor

n. a specialized vocabulary used by a group

n. great emotion or passion

n. name

adj. strikingly appropriate and relevant

v. to inform

n. praise; approval

n. the study of material evidence of past human life

n. a terse, witty saying

v. to calm; pacify; placate

n. highest point

n. the point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited; the highest point

n. something that calms or soothes pain

adj. irregular; deviating from the norm

n. medication that reduces or eliminates pain

v. to improve

n. something delicious; the food of the gods

v. to lessen; ease; soothe

v. to relieve; improve partially

n. a combination; a mixture of two or more metals

v. to make larger or greater

v. to caution or reprimand

n. growth in size or increase in amount

adj. moderate in appetite

n. the act of cutting; the natural separation of a leaf or other part of a plant

v. to reject; abandon formally

adj. miserable; pitiful

n. temporary suppression or suspension

v. to decrease; reduce

v. to give up a position, right, or power