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Clamber

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Climb awkwardly or with difficulty, scramble

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Cloying

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Disgustingly or distastefully sweet

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Coagulate

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Cause a liquid to become solid or semisolid

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Coda

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Final part of a musical composition; an ending, esp. one that sums up what has come before

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Coffer

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Chest for storing valuables; financial resources, a treasury

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Collude

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Conspire; cooperate for illegal or fraudulent purposes

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Compendium

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Concise but complete summary; a list or collection

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Complaisant

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Eager to please; cheerfully complying

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Confound

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Confuse, frustrate; mix up or make worse

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Connote

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Suggest or imply in addition to the precise, literal meaning

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Contraries

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Things that are opposing; either of two opposite things

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Contrite

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Remorseful; feeling sorry for one’s offenses or sins

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Contumacious

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Rebellious; stubbornly disobedient

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Convoke

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Call together, as to a meeting

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Cosset

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Treat as a pet, pamper

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Coterie

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Close or exclusive group, clique

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Cupidity

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Greed, great or excessive desire

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Curmudgeon

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Bad-tempered, difficult person; grouch

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Declaim

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Speak in an impassioned, pompous, or oratorical manner; five a formal speech

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Declivity

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Downward slope

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Delimit

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Fix, mark, or define the boundaries of

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Demagogue

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A leader who lies and gains power by arousing the passions and especially prejudices of the people

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Demur

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Show reluctance or object, esp. for moral reasons

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Desultory

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Lacking consistency or order, disconnected, sporadic; going off topic

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Diaphanous

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very sheer, fine, translucent

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Dichotomy

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Division into two parts or into two contradictory groups

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Dictum

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Formal or authoritative pronouncement; saying or proverb

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Diffident

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Lacking confidence, shy

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Diffuse

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Spread widely, disseminate; dispersed, widely spread out, or wordy and going off-topic

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Dilate

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To become wider or make wider, cause to expand; to speak or write at length, elaborate upon

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Dilatory

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Slow, late; procrastinating or stalling for time

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Dilettante

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Person who takes up an art or activity for amusement only or in a superficial way

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Dirge

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A funeral or mourning song or poem

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Discomfiting

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Disconcerting, confusing, frustrating

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Discordant

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Harsh or inharmonious in sound; disagreeing, incongruous

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Discrete

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Separate, distinct, detached, existing as individual parts

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Disparage

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Belittle, put down

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Disparate

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Distinct, different

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Dissemble

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Mislead, conceal the truth, put on a false appearance of

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Dissolution

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Dissolving, the state of having been dissolved; breaking bonds or breaking up of a group of people; death, disintegration; sinking into extreme hedonism, vice, and degradation

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Distaff

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Female, exp. relation to the maternal side of the family; women or women’s work; a staff that holds wool or flax for spinning

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Distend

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Swell, expand, stretch, bloat

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Dither

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Act indecisively; a state of fear or trembling excitement

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Diurnal

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Occurring every day; happening in the daytime (rather than at night)

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Doctrinaire

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Person who applies doctrine in an impractical or rigid an close-minded way; merely theoretical, impractical, or fanatical about other people accepting one’s ideas

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Doff

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Table off, put aside; remove one’s hat as a gesture

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Dovetail

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Join or fit together

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Droll

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Funny in an odd way

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Dupe

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Person who is easily fooled or used; to fool or exploit

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Duplicity

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Deceit, double-dealing, acting in two different ways for the purpose of deception

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