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113 Cards in this Set
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cache
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n; hiding place
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Jafar’s cache was beneath the castle—the door was a hidden entrance behind a wall.
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cacophonous
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adj; discordant; inharmonious
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Pudge said his golf swing was often cacophonous—he just couldn’t get everything working in harmony.
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cadge
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v; beg; mooch; panhandle
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Paul liked to cadge off of everyone—we ended up having to hide our food!
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callow
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adj; youthful; immature; inexperienced
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Chad liked callow women—the younger, the better.
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culumny
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n; malicious misrepresentation; slander
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We could well get sued for culumny over some of our A-Men depictions—I don’t think B.J. or Elby would like how they come across.
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canard
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n; false or unfounded story; fabricated report
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Dan Rather got in trouble for his infamous canard in which he reported that Bush had falsified his military records.
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cantankerous
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adj; ill-humored; irritable
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Beth could get cantankerous at certain times of the month.
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cantata
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n; story set to music, to be sung by a chorus
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Verdi turned The Merry Wives of Windsor into a cantata, Falstaff.
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canvass
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v/n; determine or seek opinions, votes, etc
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The mayor was confident after canvassing the crowd that he had the votes to win.
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capricious
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adj; unpredictable; fickle
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How he got "Most Fun-Loving is beyond me--he tries to act capricious, but he's really not spontaneous.
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captious
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adj; faultfinding
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Pudge is extremely captious—he finds problems with everything.
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carafe
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n; glass water bottle; decanter
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“Carafe of red. Carafe of white. What ever kind of mood you’re in tonight.”
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carapace
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n; shell covering the back (turtle, crab, etc.)
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Snapping turtles have a raised ridge on the top of their carapace.
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carillon
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n; a set of bells capable of being played
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“I heard the carillon on Christmas day. Their own familiar carols play”
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carping
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n/adj; petty criticism; fault-finding
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Pudge’s statements were never free from carping—there was always something negative.
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castigation
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n; punishment; severe criticism
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Bloom’s castigation of Alice Walker caused a big uproar among feminists and black-lit. people.
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cataract
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n; great waterfall
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Niagra Falls: cataract.
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catcall
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n; shout of disapproval; boo
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Bud was famous for his catcalls during basketball games.
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catharsis
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n; purging or cleansing of any passage of the body
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Aristotle thought that a tragedy acted as catharsis in that it purged the soul of base elements.
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cavil
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v/n; make frivolous objections
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Lionel Hutz would often cavil unimportant facts because he didn’t know what else to do.
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celerity
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n; speed; rapidity;
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Hamlet resented his mother’s celerity in remarrying.
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censorious
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adj/v(censure); critical
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Pudge is too censorious—he loves blaming people.
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cerebration
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n; thought
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Reading Faulkner isn’t easy—he requires much cerebration.
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chaff
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n; worthless products of an endeavor; Trivial or worthless matter
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I thought his article placed too much emphasis on the chaff and not enough on the important details.
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chaffing
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adj; bantering; joking
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We’re a chaffing group of guys—we like to go at it.
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chagrin
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n; vexation (caused by humiliation or injured pride); disappointment
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Aladdin thought the revelation of his true lifestyle would cause him chagrin.
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chary
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adj; cautious; sparing or restrained about giving
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Paul was very chary when it came to money—I doubt he ever gave money to the Salvation Army.
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chasten
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v; correct by punishment or scolding; restrain
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Mother Superior would chasten little Billy whenever he did something wrong—thus bringing about the Killer Santa.
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chicanery
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n; trickery; decetption
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Iago was a master of chicanery—he tricked and deceived everyone.
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chimerical
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adj; fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative
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Henry James’ fiction is realistic; Tolkien’s is chimerical.
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chisel
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v; swindel or cheat
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The Duke and the King tried to chisel the people out of their money by performing Hamlet’s soliloquy.
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choleric
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adj; hot-tempered
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David Banner turned into the Hulk when he became choleric.
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chortle
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v; chuckle with delight
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We imagined Sean chortling after throwing a rock through Paul’s windshield.
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churlish
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adj; boorish; rude
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Paul was very churlish when it came to table-manners—he would often double-dip his breadstick and talk with his mouth open and take other people’s corner pieces of pizza.
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cipher
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n; nonentity; worthless person or thing
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Chad is a cipher—he has no personality and doesn’t contribute anything to a conversation.
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circlet
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n; small ring; band
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The One Ring looked like a mere circlet to me.
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circuitous
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adj; roundabout; indirect
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Claggart worked through circuitous, or, indirect, means.
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circumlocution
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n; unnecessarily wordy and indirect speech; evasive language
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Hamlet would often engage in circumloction—no one could understand what he was saying.
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circumspect
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adj; prudent; cautious
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Paul was very circumspect with money.
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circumvent
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v; outwit; baffle
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Falstaff is so witty, he would circumvent a lesser mind.
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clapper
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n; striker of a bell
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The thing inside the bell that does the ringing.
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clarion
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adj; shrill; trumpetlike sound
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The army recruits woke up to the clarion sound of the bugle.
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clemency
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n; disposition to be lenient; mildness
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Mother Superior’s lack of clemency drove Billy to murder.
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cloister
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n; monastary or convent
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Nuns live in the cloister.
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clout
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n; great influence
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Paul liked to think he carried a lot of clout in Lappin.
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cloying
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adj; distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental
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George hated Jerry’s cloying relationship (Schmoopie).
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coagulate
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v; thicken; congeal; clot
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The tar on the mastadon coagulated so that it kept it intact.
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codicil
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n; supplement to the body of a will
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His will was complicated because it had so many codicils.
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codify
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v; arrange (laws, rules) as a code; classify
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Hammurabi codified the laws of the land into his Code of Hammurabi.
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coeval
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adj; contemporary
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Philip Roth may be the greatest coeval author.
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cogent
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adj; convincing
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Gregory Peck was not a very cogent Ahab.
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cogitate
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v; think over
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You really have to cogitate what you read in Emerson to gain the fullest benefits.
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coiffure
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n; hairstyle
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The mullet is a type of coiffure.
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colander
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n; utensil with perforated bottome used for straining
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Use a colander to drain the water from the spaghetti.
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collate
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v; examine in order to verify authenticity
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Specialists who collated Bush’s military records found them to be credible.
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collation
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n; light meal
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There are no collations to Paul—only feasts.
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comity
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n; courtesy; civility
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Hannibal Lector liked people who behaved with some comity.
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commensurate
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adj; proportionate
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My thumbs aren’t proportionate—one is longer than the other.
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commiserate
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v; feel or express pity or sympathy for
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Genie commiserated with Aladdin because he couldn’t marry Jasmin.
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compendium
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v; brief, comprehensive summary
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SparkNotes provides both long analyses and compendiums to novels.
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complaisant
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adj; trying to please; overly polite; obliging
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Jasmin was the opposite of complaisant—she was rude, short, and uninterested in pleasing her suitors.
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comport
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v; behave
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Ted didn’t comport on the putting green—he hit balls off of the wall instead of putting quietly.
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compunction
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n; remorse
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Jafar didn’t show any compunction for having ruined Aladdin.
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concatenate
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v; link as in a chain
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When playing Red-Rover, teams have to concatenate their arms to withstand the runner.
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concerted
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adj; mutally agreed on; done together
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The gundam pilots made a conerted effort to bring down OZ.
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conciliatory
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adj/v; reconciling; soothing
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Elby was conciliatory after knocking Paul over.
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conclave
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n; private meeting
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Aladdin wanted a conclave with Jasmin, so he flew up to her balcony.
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concomitant
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n; that which accompanies
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A sore throat is usually a concomitant to a sinus infection.
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concord
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n; harmony
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“Hello, baby hello.”
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condign
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adj; appropriate; deserved (almost always, in the sense of deservedly severe, as in condign punishment).
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Everyone thought John Peterson’s sentence was condign.
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conflagration
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n; great fire
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Springfield has a conflagration that burns a yard of tires.
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conflate
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v; combine
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The voltron lions conflated to form Voltron: Defender of the Universe.
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confluence
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n; flowing together; crowd
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We took a picture in Pittsburgh at the confluence of two rivers.
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congeal
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v; freeze; coagulate
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The mastadon congealed in the Arctic cold.
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congenital
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adj; existing at birth
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He has a congential birth mark—it’s existed since he was born.
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conjecture
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v; guess; infer on the basis of insufficient data
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Since no one saw the crash, the police conjectured what must have happened.
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connivance
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n (connive v); pretense of ignorance of something wrong; knowledge of something wrong done
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My connivance when confronted with watching the satellite with friends was flawless.
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connubial
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adj; pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state
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Chad would never be happy in a connubial life—he’s just too much of a lady’s man.
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consanguinity
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n; kinship
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Michael told Fredo that he should never take sides against his consanguinity again.
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conscript
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n/v; draftee; person forced into military service
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If I were to ever become a conscript, I would head to Canada.
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consequential
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adj; pompous; self-important
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Chad thinks he is overly consequential—he’s really not that important.
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consign
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v/n; deliver officially; entrust; set apart
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Luka Brotsi moonlighted as a postal worker for the mob—he consigned the horse’s head to the producer’s bed.
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consonance
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adj; harmony;agreement
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“Consonance, gee I really I love you and I want to love forever.”
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consort
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n; husband or wife
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I want a consort like Isabel Archer.
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contentious
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adj; quarrelsome
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Iago and Jafar were quite a contentious duo—they fought constantly.
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contiguous
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adj; adjacent to; touching upon
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Kentucky is contiguous to Ohio and Tennessee, but not Texas.
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continence
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n; self-restraint; sexual chastity
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It was every guy’s quest to conquer Bethany’s continence.
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contingent
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n; group that makes up part of a gathering
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The déjà vu’s contingent was mostly perverted truck drivers.
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contrite
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adj; repentant; penitent
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The contrite Don Quixote lashed himself in the mountains in the name of Dulcinea.
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controvert
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v; oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict
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Since I couldn’t stand Anna, I controverted everything she said in class, and won.
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contumacious
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(-macy n) adj; disobediant; resisting authority
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Aladdin was contumacious when the Sultan’s guards tried to arrest him.
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convivial
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adj; festive; gay; characterized by joviality
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Ondie was always very convivial.
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convoke
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(-kation n) v; call together
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Mr. Gullett convoked the team before the match to talk strategy.
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convoluted
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adj; coiled around; involved; intricate
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The beauty of the A-Men is it’s convoluted plots—you never know what will happen.
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cordon
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n/v; extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress
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Not even the cordon of guards could keep Jafar from escaping.
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corollary
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n; consequence; accompaniment
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As a corollary of our fight, Chad’s nose bled the entire round the next day.
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corporeal
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adj; bodily; material
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Thoreau wanted to give up the corporeal world.
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corrugated
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adj; wrinkled; ridged
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The hipster kid intentionally wadded his shirt up to make it look corrugated.
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coterie
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n; group that meets socially; select circle
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Marc ran in a very high-falutin’ coterie.
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countenance
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v; approve; tolerate
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Jafar did not countenance Prince Ali showing up unannounced.
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countermand
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v; cancel; revoke
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They probably should have countermanded Paul’s liscence after his 4th ticket.
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cow
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v; terrorize; intimidate
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The men at the bar were so cowed by Chad’s entrance that they cowered in the corner.
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cozen
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v; cheat; hoodwink; swindle; bilk
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Larry cozened the insurance company by writing the corvette as a tax write-off.
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crabbed
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adj; sour; peevish
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Aladdin got sort of crabbed when Genie suggested freeing him.
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craven
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adj; cowardly
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The men in the bar’s craven behavior at the sight of Chad accentuated his murderous side.
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crone
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n; hag
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Haggar the witch gets her name because she is a crone.
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crotchety
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adj; eccentric; whimsical
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Pynchon is very crotchety.
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culpable
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adj; deserving blame
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Iago was culpable in the Aladdin situation—it wasn’t just Jafar.
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culvert
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n; artificial channel for water
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Paintsville Lake is a culvert—it’s not natural, just like Good Charlotte’s attitude.
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cupidity
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n; greed
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Paul’s cupidity may get him in trouble—at some point he may even stop paying taxes.
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curmudgeon
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n; miserly individual
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Paul will be a curmudgeon when he gets old.
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cursory
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adj; casual; hastily done
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Aladdin told Genie that he needed to be “Coooool; cursory” with Jasmin.
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cynosure
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n; object of general attention
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When Mr. Gullett bit Chad’s head off, Chad immediately became the cynosure of all present.
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