lesson VIII
Terms
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- calamity
- An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster: A hurricane would be a calamity for this low-lying coastal region
- calculate
- To make an estimate of; evaluate: calculating the team's chances of winning.
- camouflage
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The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings
Fabric or a garment dyed in splotches of green, brown, tan, and black so as to make the wearer indistinguishable from the surrounding environment - candidate
- A person who seeks or is nominated for an office, prize, or honor.
- canvass
- A heavy, coarse, closely woven fabric of cotton, hemp, or flax, used for tents and sails.
- capability
- The quality of being capable; ability.
- capacity
- The ability to receive, hold, or absorb.
- casual
- Occurring by chance
- cemetery
- A place for burying the dead; a graveyard.
- challenge
- call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition: a challenge to a duel
- chemist
- A scientist specializing in chemistry
- circuit
- A closed, usually circular line that goes around an object or area
- circumference
- The boundary line of a circle.
- citizenship
- The status of a citizen with its attendant duties, rights, and privileges
- civilization
- An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions.