C's Flashcards

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Cadge

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Beg; sponge

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Cacophonous

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Unpleasant or harsh sounding

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Callous

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Thick skinned; insensitive

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Calumny

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False and malicious accusation

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Canard

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False; deliberately misleading story

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Canon

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An established principle; basis or standard for judgement; group of literary works

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Cant

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Insincere talk; language of a particular group

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Cantankerous

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Irritable; ill-humored

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Capricious

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Fickle

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Captious

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Fault finding

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Cardinal

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Of foremost importance

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Carnal

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Of flesh and body

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Carping

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To find fault, complain

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Cartography

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Science of making maps

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Caste

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Any of the hereditary social classes of Hindu society

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Cataclysm

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Violent upheaval that caused great destruction and change

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Catalyst

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Something causing change

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Categorical

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Absolute; without exception

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Caucus

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Smaller group within an organization

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Causal

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Involving cause

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Caustic

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Sarcastically biting; burning

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Celestial

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Concerning the sky or heavens

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Centrifugal

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Moving away from center

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Centripetal

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Moving or directed towards center

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Champion

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To defend or support

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Chasten

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To correct by punishment or reproof; to restrain or subdue

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Chicanery

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Trickery; fraud

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Chivalry

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Knighthood stuff

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Churlish

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Rude; boorish

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Circuitous

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Roundabout

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Clairvoyant

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One who can predict the future

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Clamor

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Noisy outcry

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Clique

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Small, exclusive group

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Cloister

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To confine; seclude

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Coagulate

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Thicken;

Coagulated blood

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Coalesce

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Cause to become one

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Coda

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Concluding part if a literary or musical composition; something that concludes

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Codify

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Systematize