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Colloquial (adj)
pertaining to conversational or common speech
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Colloquy (n)
informal discussion
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Commensurate (adj)
corresponding in exent, amount, degree, etc; proportionate
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Commiserate (v)
feel or express pity or sympathy for
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Commodious (adj)
spacious or comfortable
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Compendium (n)
brief, comprehensive summary
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Complaisant (adj)
trying to please; overly polite; obliging
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Complicity (n)
involvement in a crime; participation
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Comport (v)
bear one's self; behave
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Concatenate (v)
to link as in a chain
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Conciliatory (adj)
reconciling; soothing
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Conclave (n)
private meeting
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concomitant (n)
that which accompanies
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Condign (adj)
appropriate; deseved (almost always, in the sense of deservedly severe, as in condign punishment)
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Conflate (v)
to meld or fuse; confuse; combine into one
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Confluence (n)
flowing together; crowd
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Congenial (adj)
pleasant; friendly
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Conjecture (v)
infer on the basis of insufficient data; surmise; guess
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Connivance (n)
pretense of ignorance of something wrong; assistance; permission to offend (v, connive)
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Connubial (adj)
pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state
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Consanguinity (n)
kinship
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Conscript (n)
draftee; person forced into military service
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Consequential (adj)
pompous; self important
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Conservatory (n)
school of the fine arts (esp music and dance)
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Consign (v)
to deliver officially; entrust; set apart
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Consonance (n)
harmony; agreement
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Consummate (adj)
wholly without flaw; supremely skilled; complete and utter
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Contingent (n)
group that makes up part of a gathering
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Contravene (v)
to contradict; oppose; infringe on or transgress
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Controvert (v)
to oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict
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Conversant (adj)
familiar with
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Convivial (adj)
festive; gay
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Convoke (v)
to call together
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Countenance (v,n)
- (v) approve; tolerate
- (n) face
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Countermand (v)
cancel; revoke
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Cow (v)
bully; terrorize; intimidate
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Cozen (v)
cheat; hoodwink; swindle
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Crabbed (adj)
sour; peevish
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Crestfallen (adj)
dejected; dispirited
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Crotchety (adj)
eccentric; whimsical
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Cursory (adj)
casual; hastily done
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Cynosure (n)
object of general attention
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Dais (n)
raised platform for honored guests
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Daub (v)
to smear (as with paint)
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Deadpan (adj)
wooden; impassive
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Debacle (n)
sudden downfall; complete disaster
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Debase (v)
to reduce the quality or value of; lower in esteem; degrade
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Debauch (v)
to corrupt; seduce from virtue
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