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78 Cards in this Set
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cacophonous |
unpleasant, harsh sounding |
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cadge |
to beg |
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callous |
insensitive; thick-skinned |
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calumny |
slander |
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canard |
false; deliberatley misleading story |
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canon |
established principle |
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cant |
insincere talk, language of particular group |
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cantankerous |
irritable |
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capricious |
fickle |
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captious |
fault-finding |
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cardinal |
foremost importance |
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carnal |
of physical appetite |
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carping |
to find fault |
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cartography |
science of making maps |
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caste |
hereditary social class |
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castigation |
punishment; chastisement |
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cataclysm |
violent upheaval causing change |
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categorical |
absolute |
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caucus |
smaller group within an organization |
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causal |
involving a cause |
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caustic |
sarcastically biting; burning |
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celestial |
of the skies; sublime |
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centrifugal |
moving away from the center |
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centripetal |
moving toward the center |
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champion |
to defend / support |
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chasten |
to correct by punishment |
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chicanery |
trickery; fraud |
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chivalry |
qualities expected of ideal knight (bravery, courtesy, honor) |
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churlish |
rude |
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circuitous |
roundabout |
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clairvoyant |
psychic |
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clamor |
noisy outcry |
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clique |
small, exclusive group |
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cloister |
to confine or seclude |
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coagulate |
thicken, congeal |
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coda |
concluding part of literature or music; summarized or concludes |
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codify |
to systemize |
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cognizant |
aware |
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collage |
assemblage of diverse elements |
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commensurate |
proporational |
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complacent |
self-satisfied |
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complaisant |
overly polite; willing to please |
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complement |
something that completes |
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compliant |
yielding |
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compunction |
uneasiness caused by guilt |
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concave |
curving inward |
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conciliatory |
overcoming hostility |
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concoct |
to invent |
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concaminant |
existing concurrently |
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condone |
to voluntarily forgive |
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confound |
to baffle; perplex |
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congenial |
friendly; suited to |
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conjugal |
relating to marriage |
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connoisseur |
expert; of informed, discriminating taste |
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conscript |
person enrolled for miliary |
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consecrete |
to declare sacred |
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contend |
to assert |
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contentious |
quarrelsome |
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contiguous |
neighboring; connecting |
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continence |
self-control |
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contrite |
very sorrowful for a wrong |
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contumacious |
rebellious |
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conundrum |
puzzle without solution |
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convention |
practices widely observed in a group |
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converge |
to come together |
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convex |
curving outward |
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convivial |
sociable |
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convoluted |
complicated |
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copious |
abundant |
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coquette |
flirtatious woman |
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cornucopia |
state of abundance |
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cosmology |
study of the universe |
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covert |
secret |
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covetous |
desiring something owned by another |
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cozen |
mislead by fraud |
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craven |
cowardly |
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credence |
acceptance of something that's true |
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credo |
statement of belief |