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Confluence
A coming together of two things
Like rivers to form a bigger river
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Conjugal
Pertaining to marriage
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Contentious
Causing or characterized by argument or controversy
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Conundrum
Anything that puzzles
Riddle whose answear involves a play on words
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Copious
- Large in quantity
- Abundant
- Plentiful
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Coterie
- an exclusive group
- a group of people who associate closely
- clique
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Credulous
- willing to believe or trust too readily
- gullible
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Cryptic
- mysterious in meaning
- puzzling
- secretive
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Curmudgeon
a bad-tempered/difficult person
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Dearth
- an inadequate supply
- scarcity
- lack
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Demagogue
a person who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.
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Desecrate
- to divert from a sacred to a profane use
- defile
- dishonor
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Diatribe
a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism:
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Dilatory
- intended to cause delay
- tending to delay or procrastinate
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Disaffected
discontented and disloyal, as toward the government or toward authority.
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Discrusive
- passing aimlessly from one subject to another
- rambling
- proceeding by reasoning or argument rather than intuition
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Dissemble
- to give a false or misleading appearance to
- conceal the truth or real nature of
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Disparage
- to speak of or treat slightingly
- depreciate
- belittle
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Dispassionate
- free from or unaffected by passion
- devoid of personal feeling or bias
- impartial
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Dissonant
cause to sound harsh and unpleasant
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Dissuade
persuade not to do something
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Divination
the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means
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Dotard
a person, esp. an old person, exhibiting a decline in mental faculties
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Duplicity
- speaking or acting in two different ways concerning the same matter with intent to deceive
- deceitfulness in speech or conduct
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Egregious
- extraordinary in some bad way
- an egregious liar
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Elegiac
expressing sorrow or lamentation
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Elucidate
- to make lucid or clear
- explain
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Emanate
- to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth
- originate
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