Cacaphony-Circuitous Flashcards

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Cadence

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Rhythm

The rise and fall of sounds

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Cacaphony

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Harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds

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Cajole

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To persuade someone to do something he or he doesn’t want to do

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Callow

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Immature

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Candor

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Truthfulness

Sincere honesty

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Capitalism

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An economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens(not government) and in hitch the resulting products and services are sold with relatively little government control.

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Capitulate

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To surrender

To give up or give in

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Capricious

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Unpredictable

Likely to change at any moment

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Caricature

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A portrait or description thy is purposefully distorted or exaggerated, often to prove a point about its subject

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Castigate

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To criticize severely

To chastise

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Catalyst

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In chemistry: something that changes the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being changed
Anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it

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Categorical

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Unconditional

Absolute

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Catharsis

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Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal

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Catholic

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Universal

Embracing everything

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Caustic

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Like acid

Corrosive

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Celibacy

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Abstinence from sex

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Censure

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To condemn severely for doing something bad.

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Cerebral

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Brainy

Intellectually refined

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Chagrin

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Humiliation

Embarrassed disappointment

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Charisma

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A magical-seeming ability to attract followers and inspire loyalty

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Charlatan

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Fraud
Quack
Con-man

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Chasm

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A deep, gaping hole

A gorge

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Chastise

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To inflict punishment on

To discipline

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Chicanery

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Trickery
Deceitfulness
Artifice, especially legal or political

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Chimera

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An illusion

A foolish fancy

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Choleric

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Hot-tempered

Quick to anger

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Chronic

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Constant
Long lasting
Inveterate

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Chronicle

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A record of events in order of time

A history

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Circuitous

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Roundabout

Not following a direct path