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blight
a disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys
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blithe
carefree; cheerful
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bourgeois
middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional
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bovine
cow related; cowlike
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broach
to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject
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bucolic
charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike
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bureaucracy
a system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and insufficient rules; any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules, and red tape
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burgeon
to expand; to flourish
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burlesque
a ludicrous, mocking, or exaggerated imitation
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cacophony
harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds
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cadence
rhythm; the rise and fall of sounds
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cajole
to persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do
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candor
truthfulness; sincere honesty
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capitalism
free enterpise; an econmic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens (not the government) and in which the resulting products and services are sold relatively little government control
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capitulate
to surrender; to give up or give in
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capricious
unpredictable; likely to change at any moment
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caricature
a portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated, often to prove some point about its subject
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castigate
to criticize severely; to chastise
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catalyst
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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