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Cacophonous***

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(adj) unpleasant or harsh-sounding

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Cadge

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(v) to beg; sponge

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Calumny

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(n) false and malicious accusation; slander

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Canard

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(n) false, deliberately misleading story

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Cant***

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(n) insincere talk; language of a particular group

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Capricious***

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(adj) fickle

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Captious

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(adj) faultfinding; intended to entrap, as in an argument – “cap”tivate or “cap”ture

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Cardinal

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(adj) of foremost importance

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Carping

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(adj) to find fault; complain – sort of like “harping”

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Castigation***

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(n) punishment; chastisement; criticism

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Catalyst***

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(n) something causing change

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Categorical

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(adj) absolute; without exception

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Caucus

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(n) smaller group within an organization

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Causal

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(adj) involving a cause

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Centrifugal

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(adj) moving away from a center

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Chasten

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(v) to correct by punishment or reproof; to restrain or subdue

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Chicanery***

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(n) trickery; fraud

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Circuitous

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(adj) roundabout

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Coagulate***

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(v) thicken; congeal

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Coalesce

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(v) to cause to become one

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Codify

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(v) to systematize

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Commensurate***

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(adj) proportional

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Compendium***

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(n) brief, comprehensive summary

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Complacent

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(adj) self-satisfied

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Complaisant***

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(adj) overly polite; willing to please; obliging

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Conciliatory***

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(adj) overcoming distrust or hostility

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Concomitant***

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(n) existing concurrently

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Confound***

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(v) to baffle; perplex; mix up

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Congenial

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(adj) similar in tastes and habits; friendly; suited to

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Contentious***

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(adj) quarrelsome; causing quarrels

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Contumacious

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(adj) disobedient; rebellious

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Conundrum***

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(n) riddle; puzzle with no solution

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Convoluted***

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(adj) twisted; complicated

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Cosmology***

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(n) study of the universe as a totality; theory of the origin structure of the universe

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Covetous

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(adj) desiring something owned by another – like in the bible

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Cozen

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(v) to mislead by trick or fraud; deceive

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Craven***

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(adj) cowardly

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Credence***

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(n) acceptance of something as true

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