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Barron's Master Word List
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Undergraduate 4
07/03/2009
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Abeyance
 Definition
Suspended action
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Abjure
 Definition
Renounce upon oath; disavow
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Ablution
 Definition
Washing
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Abnegation
 Definition
Renunciation; self-sacrifice
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Abrogate
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Abolish
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Abstemious
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Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
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Abstruse
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Obscure; profound; difficult to understand
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Abut
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Border upon; adjoin
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Accede
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Agree
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Acclivity
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Sharp upslope of a hill
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Accoutre
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Equip
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Accretion
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Growth; increase
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Acidulous
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Slightly sour; sharp; caustic
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Acme
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Peak; pinnacle; highest point
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Actuate
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Motivate
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Acumen
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Mental keenness
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Addle
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Muddle; drive crazy; become rotten
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Adjuration
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Solemn urging
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Adjutant
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Staff officer assisting the commander; assistant
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Adroit
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Skillful
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Adulation
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Flattery; admiration
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Adventitious
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Accidental; casual
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Advert
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Refer to
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Aegis
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Shield; defense
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Aerie
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Nest of a large bird of prey
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Affable
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Easily approachable; warmly friendly
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Agog
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Highly excited; intensely curious
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Alacrity
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Cheerful promptness; eagerness
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Amazon
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Female warrior
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Amble
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Moving at an easy pace
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Ambrosia
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Food of the gods
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Ambulatory
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Able to walk; not bedridden
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Amity
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Friendship
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Anathema
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Solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse
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Ancillary
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Serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary
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Animadversion
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Critical remark
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Animus
 Definition
Hostile feeling or intent
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Anneal
 Definition
Reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling
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Anodyne
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Drug that relieves pain; opiate
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Antediluvian
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Antiquated; extremely ancient
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Anthropoid
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Manlike
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Aphorism
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Pithy maxim or saying, usually philosophic or scientific
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Aplomb
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Poise; assurance
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Apocryphal
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Spurious; not authentic; invented rather than true
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Apogee
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Highest point
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Apostate
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One who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs
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Artifice
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Deception; trickery
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Ascendancy
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Controlling influence
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Asinine
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Stupid
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Askance
 Definition
With a sideways or indirect look
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Asperity
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Sharpness of temper
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Aspersion
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Slanderous remark
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Astral
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Relating to the stars
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Asunder
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Into parts; apart
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Atavism
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Resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; reversion to an earlier type; throwback
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Augury
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Omen; prophecy
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Aureole
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Sun's corona; halo
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Auspicious
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Favoring success
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Avocation
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Secondary or minor occupation
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Avuncular
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Like an uncle
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Awl
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Pointed tool used for piercing
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Bacchanalian
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Drunken
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Badinage
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Teasing conversation
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Baleful
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Threatening; menacing; sinister; foreshadowing evil
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Beatific
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Showing or producing joy; blissful
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Bedizen
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Dress with vulgar finery
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Bedraggle
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Wet throughly
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Behoove
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Be necessary or proper for; be incumbent upon
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Bellicose
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Warlike; pugnacious; naturally inclined to fight
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Benison
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Blessing
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Besmirch
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Soil; defile
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Betoken
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Signify; indicate
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Bicameral
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Two-chambered, as a legislative body
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Bilious
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Suffering from a liver complaint; peevishly ill humored
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Bilk
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Swindle; cheat
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Bivouac
 Definition
Temporary encampment
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Blandish
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Cajole; coax with flattery
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Blighted
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Suffering from a disease; destroyed
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Boorish
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Rude; insensitive
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Bourgeois
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Middle class; selfishly materialistic; dully conventional
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Bowdlerize
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Expurgate
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Brackish
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Somewhat saline
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Braggadocio
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Boasting
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Brindled
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Tawny or grayish with streaks or spots
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Burnish
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Make shiny by rubbing; polish
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Cabal
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Small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests
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Cadge
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Beg; mooch; panhandle
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Callow
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Youthful; immature; inexperienced
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Calumny
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Malicious misrepresentation; slander
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Canard
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False or unfounded story; fabricated report
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Cant
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Insincere expressions of piety; jargon of theives
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Cantankerous
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Ill-humored; irritable
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Capitulate
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Surrender
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Captious
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Faultfinding
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Carillon
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A set of bells capable of being played
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Carping
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Petty criticism; faultfinding
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Carrion
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Rotting flesh of a dead body
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Cataclysm
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Deluge; upheaval
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Catholic
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Universal; wide-ranging liberal
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Cavalcade
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Procession; parade
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Cavil
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Make frivolous objections
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Celerity
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Speed; rapidity
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Censorious
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Critical
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Cerebration
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Thought
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Chimerical
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Fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative
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Chortle
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Chuckle with delight
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Churlish
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Boorish; rude
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Ciliated
 Definition
Having minute hairs
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Cipher
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Nonentity; worthless person or thing
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Cistern
 Definition
Reservoir or water tank
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Clarion
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Shrill, trumpetlike sound
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Cloying
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Distasteful(because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental
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Coda
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Concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that rounds out, summarizes, or concludes
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Coeval
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Living as the same time as; contemporary
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Comity
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Courtesy; civility
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Commodious
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Spacious and comfortable
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Compunction
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Remorse
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Concatenate
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Link as in a chain
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Condign
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Appropriate; deserved(almost always in the sense of deservedly severe)
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Conflagration
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Great fire
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Conjecture
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Infer on the basis of insuffient data; surmise; guess
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Connubial
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Pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state
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Controvert
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Oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict
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Contumacious
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Disobedient; resisting authority
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Converse
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Opposite
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Conveyence
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Vehicle
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Cornice
 Definition
Projecting molding on buildings(usually above columns)
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Coterie
 Definition
Group that meets socially; select circle
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Countenance (v.)
 Definition
Approve; tolerate
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Countenance (n.)
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Face
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Cozen
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Cheat; hoodwink; swindle
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Craven
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Cowardly
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Crone
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Hag
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Culvert
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Artifical channel for water
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Curmudgeon
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Churlish, miserly individual
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Cynosure
 Definition
Object of general attention
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