C Flashcards

(106 cards)

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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
The arrangement of events in time
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Circumscribing
Confine within bounds
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Cite
To quote as authority or example | Mention
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Citing
To quote as authority or example | Mention
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Clairvoyant
Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness
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Clamor
Loud outcry
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Clandestine
Concealed or kept secret often for an illicit purpose
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Coalesced
To grow together
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Coda
A passage at the end of a movement or composition that bring it to a formal close
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Cogent
Convincing
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Collusive
Given to in a secret manner for a deceitful or fraudulent purpose
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Coltish
Lively and playful
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Comestible
Edible
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Commando
Small fighting force trained for making quick, destructive raids against enemy-held areas
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Commentated
To make a commentary o=on or serve as commentator
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Commune
Exchange thoughts and feelings | Local community organized with a government for promoting local interests
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Communism
System of government in which the state controls production and a single party holds power
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Compatriots
Colleague
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Compel
To force, drive, or constrain
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Complaints
Expression of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment
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Complement
Something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection
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Complementary
Forming or serving as a complement
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Complicit
Involved with others in illegal activity
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Comprehension
Understanding
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Conceded
To acknowledge as true, just, or proper often unwillingly
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Conceit
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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