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Confound

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To baffle; perplex; mix up

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Conciliatory

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Overcoming distrust or hostility

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Connoisseur

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A person possessing expert knowledge or training; a person informed and discriminating taste

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Contention

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An assertion

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome

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Conundrum

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Riddle; puzzle with no solution

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Conventional

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Means customary or commonplace

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Convoluted

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Twisted; complicated

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Craven

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Cowardly

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Decorum

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Proper behavior

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Deference

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Respect; regard for another’s wish

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Delineate

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To represent or depict

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Denigrate

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To slur someone’s reputation