C Flashcards

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Cache

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A hiding place

A computer memory

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Callow

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Juvenile, lacking adult sophistication

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Candid

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White, having no color

Fair, free from bias, prejudice, or malice

Blunt

Honest

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Capitulate

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Negotiate

To surrender, to cease resisting

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Capricious

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Impulsive, unpredictable

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Cascade

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A steep and small fall of water

In a series, in chronological order

Something falling or rushing forth in quantity

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Cater

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To provide or supply for

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Cauterize

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To make insensible

To burn the skin or flesh of a wound with heat or a caustic substance to stop bleeding and infection

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Cautious

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Careful

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Censor

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To person who supervises conduct and morals

One of the magistrates of Ancient Rome who acted as census takers, assessors, and inspectors of moral conduct

A psychic agency

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Chagrin

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Distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure

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Chasm

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A gorge

A marked division, separation, or difference

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Chronic

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Continuing or recurring

Always present or encountered

Suffering from a chronic disease

Being such habitually

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Chronicle

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A historical account of events arranged in chronological order

A narrative

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Coalesce

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To grow together

To unite, fuse

To arise from the combination of distinct elements

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Coerce

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To restrain or dominate by force

To compel to an act or choice

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Commodity

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An economic good

Something useful or valued

A quantity or lot

A widely available good or service

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Compassion

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Sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress

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Compel

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To drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly

To cause to do so by overwhelming pressure

To drive together

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Competent

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Proper

Having adequate ability or qualities

Having the capacity of develop or function in a particular way

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Composure

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Calmness of mind, bearing, or appearance

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Comprehensive

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Inclusive

Having wide mental grasp

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Conceal

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To prevent disclosure or recognition of

To place out of sight

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Concise

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Marked by shortness of expression or statement

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Condemn
To declare to be wrong after weighing evidence To pronounce guilty, to sentence, doom To judge fit for use or consumption
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Condescending
Dominating
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Condone
To treat something bad as good
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Confer
To consult To give
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Confine
Something that encloses or restrains Prison
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Conform
To make similar To be obedient or compliant
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Confound
To destroy Baffle, frustrate To consume, waste To put to shame
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Congenial
Having the same nature, disposition m, or tastes Pleasant, sociable
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Conjure
To summon
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Conniving
To pretend ignorance or fail to take action against something they should To be indulgent To have a secret understanding, conspire
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Connoisseur
An expert
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Consensus
An agreement
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Conspicuous
Obvious Attracting attention Not having good taste
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Consume
To destroy Squander, devour, use up To be engrossed in
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Contemplation
Study The act of regarding steadily Intention, expectation Concentration on spiritual things, a state of mystical awareness
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Contended
To struggle with To argue To contest To assert
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Contradiction
A statement that asserts or implies the falseness did something else Logical incongruity
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Contrite
Having remorse and sorrow for sin or shortcoming
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Controversial
Disputatious
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Conventional
Formed by agreement Ordinary, cliche
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Copious
Yielding abundantly, plentiful in number Full of thought, info, or matter Present in large quantity
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Cordial
Warm friendliness Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate Of or relating to the heart
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Corpulent
Obese
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Corrosion
To wear away or destroy
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Counsel
Advice given Deliberation Purpose A policy or plan of action or behavior
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Counterfeit
Made in imitation to deceive Insincere
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Cower
To shrink away
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Credible
Believable
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Creed
A brief authoritative formula or religious belief A set of fundamental beliefs
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Crucial
Important
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Cunning
Crafty Having keen insight Characterized by wildness and trickery Cute