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Convivial sounds like

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Can vivian or carnival

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Fond of parties; sociable

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Convivial

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Convivial mnemonic device

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The director from candor has a sister (who is also a can) named vivian just opened her own carnival. She is a great hostess because she is outgoing and festive. She greets every guest at the front gate and introduces them to other visitors.

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In large quantity; abundant

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Copious

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Copious sounds like

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Copy us

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Copious mnemonic device

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A classroom with three teachers at the blackboard. Each is filling out his or her board with notes. One says, “copy us. You’ll have copious notes by the end of this course.”

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Friendly; welcoming; abundant

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Cordial

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Cordial sounds like

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Cord Jill

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Cordial mnemonic device

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A girl named Jill who stands at the post office and hands out cord to customers in case they need to tie up packages. She is known to everyone as the warmest, friendliest person in town.

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Having to do with the body or the physical world

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Corporeal

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Corporeal sounds like

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Corporal

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Corporeal mnemonic device

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An army corporal has become known on the base for his addiction to physical fitness. He is constantly doing push-ups and sit-ups, jogging, or lifting weights. When asked why he spends so much time exercising, the corporal explains that “the body is the most important part of a person and it must be kept in perfect condition.” When the corporal is invited by friends to attend a religious ceremony, he responds, “sorry but i have no interest in the spirit or the soul or any of those religious ideas. Just the body. Im going to lift weights all day today.”

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Support with evidence; tell the same story; confirm

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Corroborate

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Corroborate sounds like

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Co-robber eight

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Corroborate mnemonic device

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Eight people have been arrested and brought to trial for the same robbery. One by one, each of the eight “co-robbers” testifies on the witness stand, carefully answering the prosecutor’s questions in exactly the same way the previous person did. So each corroborates the testimony of the others.

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Requirements or standards used to make a decision

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Criteria

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Criteria sounds like

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Cry tearier

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Criteria mnemonic device

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The director is advising an actress who is trying out for a role in the show: when you get to the part here you find out that your horse has died, you must cry tearier. We are using this scene to make our decision about who gets the part and the more tears the better your chances.

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Hidden; secret; mysterious

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Cryptic

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Cryptic sounds like

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Crypt tack

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Cryptic mnemonic device

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The word crypt means tomb or underground vault. Imagine someone looking around above ground for a tack but she can’t find it because it is buried in the crypt. Also she holds a piece of paper with a mysterious message: “don’t bother looking for the tack- it is below you.” “Hmm,” she thinks, “that is a pretty cryptic message.”

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Guilty; blameworthy

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Culpable

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Culpable sounds like

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Gulpable

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Culpable mnemonic device

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A little boy has just done something wrong and is being questioned by his mother. He swallows hard, making a gulping sound

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Greed, especially for money

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Cupidity

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Cupidity sounds like

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Cupid

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Cupidity mnemonic device

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Cupid using his bow and arrow to hold up a bank.

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Quickly and incompletely done; superficial

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Cursory

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Cursory sounds like

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Curse sorry

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Cursory mnemonic device

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A witch changed a woman’s husband into a cocker spaniel. Touched by the grieving wife’s woeful pleas the witch admits feelin sorry about inflicting the curse and agrees to change the husband bak into a man. In her haste, she doesn’t notice that she only did half the job. He is still half dog

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Dismayed; disheartened; discouraged (made less courageous)

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Daunted

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Daunted sounds like

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Dawn Ted

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Daunted mnemonic device

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Ted is trying to cross the desert. When he awakens at dawn and looks around, he realizes he has been walking in circles all night. Now he is about to give up his effort. “I was undaunted,” says Ted to himself, “and then came the dawn.”

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Moral decay or decline

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Decadence

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Decadence sounds like

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Deck of dance

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Decadence mnemonic device

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Two very conservative ladies aboard a cruise ship. They are discussing what goes on down on the dance deck. “It’s disgusting,” says one. “They get drunk and dance all night…” “They’re animals,” says the other. “That’s all I can say. They are morally corrupt, filthy, and decadent.”

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To say things harmful to a person’s reputation; malign; vilify

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Defame

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Defame sounds like

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The frame

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Defame mnemonic device

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A very valuable picture frame that had been stored at a fine art museum. When the frame disappears, the guilty museum curator tells everyone the cleaning lady stole it, and that she has been stealing from the museum for years. He is defaming her.

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The act of yielding to someone else out of respect

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Deference

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Deference sounds like

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Deafer ants

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Deference mnemonic device

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A family of ants is arriving at a music hall. All the ants in this family have trouble with their hearing but the grandparents are nearly deaf. The younger members of the family, acknowledging that the grandparents are deafer, allow them to sit in front closest to the musicians. They are showing deference to their elders.

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