Vocab: C

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Cadge

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To beg; sponge

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Cacophonous

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Unpleasant or harsh sounding

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Callous

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Thick skinned; insensitive

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Calumny

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False and malicious accusation; slander

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Canard

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False, deliberately misleading story

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Canon

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An established principle; a basis or standard for judgement; a group of literary works

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Cant

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Insincere talk; language of a particular group

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Cantankerous

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Irritable; ill-humored

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Capricious

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Fickle

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Captious

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Fault finding; intended to entrap, as in an argument

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Cardinal

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Of foremost important

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Carnal

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Of the flesh or body; related to physical appetites

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Carping

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To find fault; complain

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Cartography

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Science of making maps

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Caste

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Any of the hereditary social classes of Hindu society ; social stratification

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Castigation

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Punishment; chastisement; criticism

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Cataclysm

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A violent upheaval that causes great destruction and change

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Catalyst

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Something causing change

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Categorical

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Absolute; without exception

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Caucus

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Smaller group within an organization

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Causal

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Involving a cause

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Caustic

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Sarcastically biting; burning

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Celestial

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Concerning the sky or heavens; sublime

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Centrifugal

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Moving away from a center

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Centripetal

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Moving or directed toward a center

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Champion

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To defend or support

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Chasten

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To correct by punishment or reproof; to restrain or subdue

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Chicanery

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Trickery; fraud

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Chivalry

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The qualities idealized by knighthood such as bravery and gallantry toward women

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Churlish

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Rude; boorish

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Circuitous

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Roundabout

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Clairvoyant

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One who can predict the future; psychic

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Clamor

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Noisy outcry

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Clique

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A small, exclusive group

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Cloister

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To confine; seclude

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Coagulate

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Thicken; congeal

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Coalesce

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To cause to become one

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Coda

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Concluding part of a literary or musical composition; something that summarizes or concludes

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Codify

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To systemize

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Cognizant

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Informed; conscious; aware

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Collage

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Artistic composition of materials pasted over a surface; an assemblage of diverse elements

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Commensurate

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Proportional

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Compendium

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Brief, comprehensive summary

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Complacent

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Self satisfied

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Complaisant

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Overly polite; willing to please; obliging

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Complement

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Something that completes it makes up a whole

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Compliant

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Yielding

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Compunction

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Uneasiness caused by guilt

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Concave

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Curving inward

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Conciliatory

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Overcoming distrust or hostility

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Concoct

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To invent

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Concomitant

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Existing concurrently

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Condone

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To overlook voluntarily; forgive

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Confound

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To baffle; perplex; mix up

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Congenial

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Similar in tastes and habits; friendly; a suited to

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Conjugal

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Pertaining to marriage agreement

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Connoisseur

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

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Conscript

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Person compulsorily enrolled for military service

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Consecrate

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To declare sacred

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Contend

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To assert

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome; causing quarrels

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Contiguous

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Touching; neighboring; connecting without a break

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Continence

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Self control; abstention from sexual activity

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Contrite

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Very sorrowful for a wrong

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Contumacious

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Disobedient; rebellious

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Conundrum

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Riddle; puzzle with no solution

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Convention

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Practice widely observed in a group; custom; accepted technique or device

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Converge

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To approach; come together; tend to meet

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Convex

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Curved outward

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Convivial

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Sociable

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Convoluted

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Twisted; complicated

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Copious

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Abundant; plentiful

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Coquette

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Woman who flirts

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Cornucopia

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Horn overflowing with fruit and grain; state of abundance

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Cosmology

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Study of the universe as a totality; theory of the origin and structure of the universe

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Covert

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Hidden; secret

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Covetous

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Desiring something owned by another

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Cozen

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To mislead by trick or fraud; deceive

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Craven

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Cowardly

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Credence

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Acceptance of something as true

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Credo

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Statement of belief; intimidate; dishearten