Word List 10 Flashcards

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commandeer

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to draft for military purposes, take for public use

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commemorate

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honor the memory off

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commensurate

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equal in extent

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commiserate

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eel or express pity or sympathy for

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commodious

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spacious and comeortable

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communal

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held in common of a group of people

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compact

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agreement, contract

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compact

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tightly packed, ffirm, brief

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comparable

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similar

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compatible

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harmonious

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compelling

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overpowering, irresistable in effect

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compensatory

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making up or, repaying

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compile

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assemle , gathher, accumulate

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complacency

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self-satisfaction, smugness

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complement

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something that completes or fills up, number or quantity needed to make something complete

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complement

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complete, consummate, make perfect

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complementary

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serving to complete something

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compliance

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readiness to yield, conformity in fulfilling requirements

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compliant

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yielding

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complicity

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participation

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component

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element, ingredient

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composure

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mental calmness

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compound

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something composed of the union of separate parts, walled-in area containing several buildings

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compound

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compose, combine ingredients, make something bad worse

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comprehensive

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thorough, inclusive

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comprise

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include, consis of

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compromise

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adjust or settle by making mutual concessions, endanger thhe interests or reputation off

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compute

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reckon, calculate

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concede

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acknowledge something to be true, admit defeat, grant, award

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conceited

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vanity or self love, whimsical idea

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concentration

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focusing one’s total attention, gathering, cluster, relative amount of a substance

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concentric

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having a common center

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conception

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beginning, forming an idea

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concerted

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mutually agreed on, done together

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concession

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something granted in response to a demand, acknowledgement, preferential rate, righht to use land

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conciliatory

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reconciling, soothing

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concise

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brief and compact

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conclusive

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decisive, ending all debate

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concoct

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prepare by combining

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concord

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harmony, agreement between people or things

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concrete

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physical or material in nature, as opposed to abstract, real, specific

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concur

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express agreement with an opinion, happen together

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condemn

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censure, sentence, force or limit to a particulat state

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condense

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make more compact or dense, shorten or abridge, reduce to a denser form

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condescend

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act conscious of descending to a lower level, patronize

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condone

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overlook, forgive, give tacit approval

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conducive

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contributive, tending to

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confine

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shut in, restrict

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confirm

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corroborate, verify, support

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confiscate

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seize, comandeer

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conformity

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state of obeying regulations, behavior that matches the behavior of most others

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confound

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confuse, puzzle