C! Flashcards

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Calamity

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An event resulting in great loss; disaster

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Callous

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Insensitive

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Calm

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Undisturbed

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Candid

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Completely honest

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Candor

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Quality of being honest and open in expression

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Capitulate

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To surrender, give in

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Cacophony

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Bad noise

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Capricious

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Doing something based on sudden changes of mood

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Capture

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To catch/take by force

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Catalyst

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Something that causes an important event to happen

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Cater

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To satisfy the needs of, try to make things easy and happy, to give food and service

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Cautious

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Careful

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Cease

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Stop

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Censor

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Examining materials that is to going be released and taking out unacceptable parts of it

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Chaff

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Worthless matter and things

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Chagrin

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Strong feelings of embarrassment

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Chaperone

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An adult who supervises a group of younger peole

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Chicanery

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The use of tricks to get political, financial or legal power

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Chide

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To scold (잔소리)

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Chronic

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Long in duration (time)

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Circumvent

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To go around an obstacle, overcome a problem

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Citation

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A quoting of a trustable source

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Civilian

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A nonmilitary, ordinary person

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Clandestine

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Something kept or is done secretly

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Classification
Grouping according to shared qualities
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Climax
Point of the greatest intensity
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Clumsy
Awkwardness
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Clutch
To hold tightly
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Coddle
To treat like a baby
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Collaborate
To work together on
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Colloquial
Informal, used in ordinary conversation
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Combination
Result of putting two or more substances together
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Compassion
Deep understanding of the suffering of another, suffering together
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Competent
Capable, qualified
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Compile
To make something by puting together materials gathred from several sources
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Complacent
Self happiness, unconcerned of actual dangers
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Complicity
INvolvement in a questionable act or crime
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Composure
Mental calmness
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Comprehend
Understanding
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Concur
To agree
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Condemn
Express strong disapproval of
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Condense
To make something more concentrated
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Condescending
Treating someone as if you are more important or smarter than them
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Condone
To overlook, forgive
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Conscientious
Wishing to do what is right, with principles
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Consecrate
To set apart as holy
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Consent
To agree
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Console
To comfort someone at a time of sadness
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Constitute
A part of the whole, add up to
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Consular
Involving an officer in the service of another country
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Contempt
Strong feeling of hatred, no respect
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Contrite
Feeling regret
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Contemptuous
feeling and showing a deep hatred
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Controlled
Prevent from doing something else
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Conventional
Based on what is normally done, traditionally
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Convoluted
Complicated
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Copious
A lot of supplies or a large quantity of
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Cordial
Warm and friendly
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Core
Basic, the center part
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Corporeal
Having a body
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Courageous
Brave, bold
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Covent
To want or desire
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Creativity
Imaginative, expressive
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Credulous
Beliving things easily, even lies
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Critical
Expressing disapporving, negative comments, judging
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Crook
Bending something, criminal, bad
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Cruicial
Extremely important
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Crucible
A hard test of patience
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Crucify
Put to death by nailing them to a cross, criticize someone severly
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Crude
Offensive and rude
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Crystalline
Resembling, like a crystal
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Cuckold
A man married to an unfaithful wife
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Cue
Signal
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Curtail
To cut short
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Coalesce
To come together
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Congeal
Thicken, change from liquid to solid
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Consensus
A general agreement
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Contiguous
Touching each other, being side by side
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Counsel
To give advice
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congenial
quality similar to one's own
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Choleric
bad tempered
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Corpulent
fat
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clarity
being clear and easy
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concede
admit
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contrition
deep regret for doing something wrong
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cumulative
becoming worse or better overtime with series of actions added up
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confound
cause surprise or confusing by doing something that is unexpected
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contradict
to disagree
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contentious
likely to cause disagreement or argument
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correlation
connection between two or more things