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C Flashcards

1
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Cache

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A hiding place

A computer memory

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Callow

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Juvenile, lacking adult sophistication

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Candid

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White, having no color

Fair, free from bias, prejudice, or malice

Blunt

Honest

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Capitulate

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Negotiate

To surrender, to cease resisting

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Capricious

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Impulsive, unpredictable

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Cascade

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A steep and small fall of water

In a series, in chronological order

Something falling or rushing forth in quantity

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Cater

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To provide or supply for

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Cauterize

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To make insensible

To burn the skin or flesh of a wound with heat or a caustic substance to stop bleeding and infection

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Cautious

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Careful

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Censor

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To person who supervises conduct and morals

One of the magistrates of Ancient Rome who acted as census takers, assessors, and inspectors of moral conduct

A psychic agency

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Chagrin

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Distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure

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Chasm

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A gorge

A marked division, separation, or difference

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Chronic

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Continuing or recurring

Always present or encountered

Suffering from a chronic disease

Being such habitually

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Chronicle

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A historical account of events arranged in chronological order

A narrative

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Coalesce

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To grow together

To unite, fuse

To arise from the combination of distinct elements

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Coerce

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To restrain or dominate by force

To compel to an act or choice

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Commodity

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An economic good

Something useful or valued

A quantity or lot

A widely available good or service

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Compassion

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Sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress

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Compel

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To drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly

To cause to do so by overwhelming pressure

To drive together

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Competent

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Proper

Having adequate ability or qualities

Having the capacity of develop or function in a particular way

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Composure

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Calmness of mind, bearing, or appearance

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Comprehensive

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Inclusive

Having wide mental grasp

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Conceal

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To prevent disclosure or recognition of

To place out of sight

24
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Concise

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Marked by shortness of expression or statement

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Condemn

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To declare to be wrong after weighing evidence

To pronounce guilty, to sentence, doom

To judge fit for use or consumption

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Condescending

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Dominating

27
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Condone

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To treat something bad as good

28
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Confer

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To consult

To give

29
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Confine

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Something that encloses or restrains

Prison

30
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Conform

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To make similar

To be obedient or compliant

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Confound

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To destroy

Baffle, frustrate

To consume, waste

To put to shame

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Congenial

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Having the same nature, disposition m, or tastes

Pleasant, sociable

33
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Conjure

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To summon

34
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Conniving

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To pretend ignorance or fail to take action against something they should

To be indulgent

To have a secret understanding, conspire

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Connoisseur

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An expert

36
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Consensus

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An agreement

37
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Conspicuous

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Obvious

Attracting attention

Not having good taste

38
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Consume

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To destroy

Squander, devour, use up

To be engrossed in

39
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Contemplation

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Study

The act of regarding steadily

Intention, expectation

Concentration on spiritual things, a state of mystical awareness

40
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Contended

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To struggle with

To argue

To contest

To assert

41
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Contradiction

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A statement that asserts or implies the falseness did something else

Logical incongruity

42
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Contrite

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Having remorse and sorrow for sin or shortcoming

43
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Controversial

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Disputatious

44
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Conventional

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Formed by agreement

Ordinary, cliche

45
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Copious

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Yielding abundantly, plentiful in number

Full of thought, info, or matter

Present in large quantity

46
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Cordial

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Warm friendliness

Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate

Of or relating to the heart

47
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Corpulent

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Obese

48
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Corrosion

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To wear away or destroy

49
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Counsel

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Advice given

Deliberation

Purpose

A policy or plan of action or behavior

50
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Counterfeit

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Made in imitation to deceive

Insincere

51
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Cower

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To shrink away

52
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Credible

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Believable

53
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Creed

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A brief authoritative formula or religious belief

A set of fundamental beliefs

54
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Crucial

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Important

55
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Cunning

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Crafty

Having keen insight

Characterized by wildness and trickery

Cute

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