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

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Grouping according to shared qualities

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Climax

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Point of the greatest intensity

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Clumsy

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Awkwardness

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Clutch

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To hold tightly

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Coddle

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To treat like a baby

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Collaborate

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To work together on

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Colloquial

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Informal, used in ordinary conversation

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Combination

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Result of putting two or more substances together

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Compassion

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Deep understanding of the suffering of another, suffering together

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Competent

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Capable, qualified

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Compile

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To make something by puting together materials gathred from several sources

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Complacent

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Self happiness, unconcerned of actual dangers

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Complicity

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INvolvement in a questionable act or crime

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Composure

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Mental calmness

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Comprehend

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Understanding

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Concur

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To agree

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Condemn

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Express strong disapproval of

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Condense

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To make something more concentrated

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Condescending

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Treating someone as if you are more important or smarter than them

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Condone

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To overlook, forgive

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Conscientious

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Wishing to do what is right, with principles

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Consecrate

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To set apart as holy

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Consent

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To agree

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Console

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To comfort someone at a time of sadness

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Constitute

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A part of the whole, add up to

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Consular

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Involving an officer in the service of another country

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Contempt

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Strong feeling of hatred, no respect

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Contrite

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Feeling regret

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Contemptuous

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feeling and showing a deep hatred

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Controlled

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Prevent from doing something else

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Conventional

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Based on what is normally done, traditionally

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Convoluted

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Complicated

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Copious

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A lot of supplies or a large quantity of

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Cordial

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Warm and friendly

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Core

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Basic, the center part

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Corporeal

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Having a body

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Courageous

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Brave, bold

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Covent

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To want or desire

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Creativity

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Imaginative, expressive

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Credulous

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Beliving things easily, even lies

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Critical

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Expressing disapporving, negative comments, judging

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Crook

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Bending something, criminal, bad

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Cruicial

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Extremely important

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Crucible

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A hard test of patience

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Crucify

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Put to death by nailing them to a cross, criticize someone severly

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Crude

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Offensive and rude

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Crystalline

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Resembling, like a crystal

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Cuckold

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A man married to an unfaithful wife

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Cue

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Signal

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Curtail

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To cut short

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Coalesce

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To come together

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Congeal

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Thicken, change from liquid to solid

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Consensus

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A general agreement

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Contiguous

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Touching each other, being side by side

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Counsel

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To give advice

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congenial

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quality similar to one’s own

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Choleric

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bad tempered

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Corpulent

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fat

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clarity

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being clear and easy

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concede

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admit

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contrition

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deep regret for doing something wrong

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cumulative

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becoming worse or better overtime with series of actions added up

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confound

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cause surprise or confusing by doing something that is unexpected

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contradict

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to disagree

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contentious

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likely to cause disagreement or argument

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correlation

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connection between two or more things