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Cadet

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Military trainee

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Cadent

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Rhythmic

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Callow

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Young and inexperienced

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Calumny

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Defamation; making of false statements about someone with malicious intent

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Candid

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Honest

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Cantankerous

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Grouchy

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Capricious

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Tending to make sudden/unpredictable changes

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Captious

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Overly critical

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Carouse

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Drink and become noisy

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Cask

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Container like a barrel

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Castigate

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Criticize or punish someone

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Cathartic

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Purifying

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Cavalcade

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Series/procession of things or people

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Cavalier

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Careless; arrogant disregard

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Cerebral

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Intellectual

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Ceremonious

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Adhering to convention; careful to behave correctly

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Certitude

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Feeling of certainty

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Chagrin

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Anger at being let down

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Charlatan

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False expert

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Chasten

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Subdue/discipline someone

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Chauvinism

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Aggressive patriotism; excessive sense of superiority

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Chicanery

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Cheating or deception

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Chimerical

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Imaginary

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Churl

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Bad mannered person

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Circuitous

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Indirect

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Circumlocution

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Indirect way of saying something

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Circumscribe

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Restrict

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Circumspect

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Prudent; unwillingness to act before careful consideration

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Clandestine

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Secret (usually illegal)

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Clemency

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Leniency/mercy

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Clientele

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Group of clients/customers

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Cloying

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To weary/sicken with excess (sweetness)

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Coagulate

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To curdle/thicken

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Coalesce

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Merge or unite things

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Cogent

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Rationally persuasive

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Cognizant

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Knowing about something

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Colloquial

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Informal; conversational language

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Collusion

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Secret cooperation

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Commensurate

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Properly in proportion

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Compatriot

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Fellow citizen/subject

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Compendious

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Full and concise

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Complacent

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Self-satisfied

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Complicit

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Involved in something illegal/wrong

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Complimentary

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Admiring

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Compunction

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Feeling of shame/regret

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Concede

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Reluctantly accepting something to be true

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Concomitant

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Happening at the same time

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Concord

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Peaceful coexistence; a peace treaty

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Condone

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Be willing to overlook something

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Conflagration

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Large destructive fire

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Conflate

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Combine things

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Confluence

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Coming together of people/things

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Congenial

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Agreeable

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Connive

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Conspire; cooperate secretly

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Connoisseur

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Expert

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Consecrate

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Declare a place holy

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Consensus

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Broad unanimity

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Consign

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Entrust; get rid of

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Constancy

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Loyalty

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Consternation

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Shocked dismay

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Constituent

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Person living in an electoral district

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Consummate

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Supreme/ perfect

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Contemporaneous

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Happening at the same time

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Contentious

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Creating disagreement

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Contrite

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Very sorry

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Conundrum

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Something confusing

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Conversant

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Having knowledge/experience

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Convivial

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Pleasant; sociable

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Convoluted

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Extremely intricate; too intricate to be understood easily

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Copious

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Abundant

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Cordial

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Warm & affectionate

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Corollary

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Proposition that easily follows from the proof of another

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Corpulent

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Obese/overweight

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Corroborate

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Confirm

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Cosmopolitan

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Diverse; knowledgable; refined

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Courier

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Diplomat/official messenger

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Covet

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Strong desire to possess something that belongs to someone else

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Crass

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Thoughtless and vulgar

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Craven

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Cowardly

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Credo

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Statement of principles/beliefs

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Crony

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Close friend/companion

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Culpable

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Guilty

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Curmudgeon

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Bad tempered, cantankerous person

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Cursory

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Done in a quick/superficial way

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