Words Flashcards
circumlocution
indirect or very wordy language
cloying or cloy
sickeningly sweet or satiate with excess sweetness
cogent
intellectually convincing
commensurate
corresponding in size or magnitude
commiserate
to express or feel sympathy or pity
complacent
self-satisfied ignorance or danger
complicit
partnership in a wrongful act
compunction
distress caused by feeling guilty
conciliatory
friendly, agreeable
concomitant
accompanying in a subordinate fashion
condescend
to lower oneself to an inferior’s level
confound
pleasantly agreeable
congeal
to thicken into a solid
connivance or connive
disregard or tacitly consent to a wrongdoing, to plot or scheme
consanguinity
close relationship, denoting people descending from the same ancestor
consecrate
to dedicate something to a holy purpose