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Cabal

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A secret scheme or plot

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Cajole

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Coax gently and persistently

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Callous

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Toughened

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Calumnies

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False statement maliciously made to injure someone

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Candor

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Straightforwardness

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Canny

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Careful and shrewd

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Canonization

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To approve as being within canon law

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Capricious

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Impulsive and unpredictable

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Castigate

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Punish or chastise

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Catalyst

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One that precipitates a process or event without being involved in or changed

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Catharsis

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Purifying or figurative cleansing or release of the emotions or of tension, especially through art

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Caustic

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Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or otherwise eating away by chemical action

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Cauterizes

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To burn or sear with a very hot or very cold instrument

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Cavalier

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Armed horseman

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Celebrated

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Well and usually favorably known

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Cerebral

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Pertaining to the brain or cerebrum

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Chaff

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Husks of grain after separation from the seed

Good-natured teasing

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Chagrin

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Feeling of embarrassment or humiliation caused by failure or disappointment

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Charade

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Absurd pretense intended to create respectable appearance

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Charismatic

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Characterized by a special quality of personal magnetism or charm

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Chary

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Very cautious

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Chide

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Scold

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Chided

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Scolded

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Chronicling

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To record in or in the form of a chronicle

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Chronology

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The arrangement of events in time

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Circumscribing

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Confine within bounds

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Cite

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To quote as authority or example

Mention

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Citing

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To quote as authority or example

Mention

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Clairvoyant

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Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness

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Clamor

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Loud outcry

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Clandestine

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Concealed or kept secret often for an illicit purpose

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Coalesced

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To grow together

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Coda

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A passage at the end of a movement or composition that bring it to a formal close

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Cogent

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Convincing

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Collusive

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Given to in a secret manner for a deceitful or fraudulent purpose

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Coltish

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Lively and playful

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Comestible

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Edible

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Commando

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Small fighting force trained for making quick, destructive raids against enemy-held areas

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Commentated

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To make a commentary o=on or serve as commentator

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Commune

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Exchange thoughts and feelings

Local community organized with a government for promoting local interests

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Communism

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System of government in which the state controls production and a single party holds power

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Compatriots

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Colleague

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Compel

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To force, drive, or constrain

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Complaints

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Expression of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment

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Complement

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Something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection

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Complementary

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Forming or serving as a complement

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Complicit

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Involved with others in illegal activity

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Comprehension

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Understanding

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Conceded

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To acknowledge as true, just, or proper often unwillingly

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Conceit

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Vanity

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Concessionary

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Concomitant

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Concrete

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Condoned

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Confers

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Confound

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Congeal

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Congenial

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Conglomerates

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Congress

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Congruent

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Conjectural

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Consanguineous

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Consecration

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Constitution

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Contemptible

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Contention

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Contest

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Contraband

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Contrary

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Contravening

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Contribute

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Contrite

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Contrivance

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Contrived

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Conundrums

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Conversance

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Convivial

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Convoulted

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Copious

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Cornerstone

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Corroborate

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Corroborating

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Cosmopolitan

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Couched in

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Counterfactual

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Counterpoint

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Coup

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Convey

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Crane

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Credence

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Credible

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Credulous

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Croquet

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Crouchback

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Cubist

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Culminate

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Culmination

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Culpable

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Cultivate

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Cultivation

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Cumbersone

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Cunning

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Curbed

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Curt

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Curtailing

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