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- conciliatory
- Making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill
- contrived
- Artificial; labored
- broach
- To open up a subject for discussion often a delicate subject
- capitulate
- To surrender; to give up or give in
- cognitive
- Dealing with how we know the world around us through our senses; mental
- conventional
- common; customary; unexceptional
- beget
- To give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause
- covet
- to wish for enviously
- castigate
- To criticize severely; to chastise
- bequest
- Something left to someone in a will
- bereaved
- Deprived or left desolate especially through death
- cynic
- one who deeply distrusts human nature; one who believes humans are motivated only by selfishness
- bourgeois
- Middle class usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional
- catharsis
- Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal
- benign
- Gentle; not harmful; kind; mild
- cadence
- Rhythm the rise and fall of sounds
- commensurate
- Equal; proportionate
- caustic
- Like acid; corrosive
- clique
- An exclusive group bound together by some shared quality or interest
- contentious
- Argumentative; quarrelsome
- belie
- To give a false impression of; to contradict
- comprehensive
- Covering or including everything
- construe
- To interpret
- corroborate
- to confirm; to back up with evidence
- contingent
- Dependent; possible
- conjure
- To summon or bring into being as if by magic
- contrite
- Admitting guilt; especially feeling remorseful
- coerce
- To force someone to do or not to do something
- convivial
- Fond of partying; festive
- blasphemy
- Irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity
- consensus
- Unanimity or general agreement
- comprise
- To consist of; to be composed of cf constitute compose
- circumscribe
- To draw a line around; to set the limits; to define; to restrict.
- catalyst
- In chemistry~; anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it
- banal
- Unoriginal; ordinary
- coherent
- Holding together; making sense
- covert
- secret; hidden
- countenance
- face; facial expression especially an encouraging one
- capricious
- Unpredictable; like to change at any moment
- copious
- Abundant; plentiful
- culinary
- relating to cooking or the kitchen
- chimera
- An illusion; a foolish fancy
- confluence
- A flowing together especially of rivers; place where they begin to flow together
- colloquial
- Conversational; informal in language
- belabor
- To go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent
- chagrin
- Humiliation; embarrassed disappointment
- cacophony
- Harsh-sounding mixture of words voices or sounds
- conjecture
- To guess; to deduce or infer on slight evidence
- cliche
- An overused saying or idea
- cerebral
- Brainy; intellectually refined
- circumlocution
- An indirect expression; use of wordy or evasive language
- cursory
- hasty; superficial
- circumvent
- To frustrate as though by surrounding
- bovine
- Cow related; cow like cf canine equine feline pis cine porcine ursine
- bemused
- Confused; bewildered
- cosmopolitan
- at home in many places or situations; internationally sophisticated
- curtail
- to shorten; to cut short ...
- coalesce
- To come together as one; to fuse; to unite ;
- concise
- Brief and to the point; succinct
- chronic
- Constant; lasting a long time; inveterate
- condescend
- To stoop to someone else level usually in an offensive way; to patronize
- bucolic
- Charmingly rural; rustic; country like
- connoisseur
- An expert particularly in matter of art or taste
- callow
- Immature
- beleaguer
- To surround; to besiege; to harass
- benevolent
- Generous; kind; doing good deeds
- corollary
- something that follows; a natural consequence
- belligerent
- Combative; quarrelsome; waging war
- cajole
- To persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do
- charlatan
- Fraud; quack; con man
- brevity
- Briefness
- consonant
- Harmonious; in agreement
- compendium
- A summary; an abridgment
- chastise
- To inflict punishment on; to discipline
- complement
- To complete or fill up; to be the perfect counterpart
- caricature
- A portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated often to prove some point about its subject
- consummate
- Perfect; complete; supremely skillful
- benefactor
- One who provides help especially in the form of a gift or donation
- charisma
- A magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty
- conducive
- Promoting
- complacent
- Self-satisfied; overly pleased with oneself; contented to a fault
- chronicle
- A record of events in order of time; a history
- cognizant
- Aware; conscious
- complicity
- Participation in wrongdoing; the act of being an accomplice
- celibacy
- Abstinence from sex
- chasm
- A deep gaping hole; a gorge
- chicanery
- Trickery; deceitfulness; artifice; especially legal or political
- concurrent
- Happening at the same time; parallel
- culminate
- to climax; to reach full effect
- burgeon
- To expand; to flourish
- categorical
- Unconditional; absolute
- circuitous
- Round about; not following a direct path
- choleric
- Hot-tempered; quick to anger
- culpable
- deserving blame; guilty
- blithe
- Carefree; cheerful
- bane
- Poison; torment; cause of harm
- congenial
- Agreeably suitable; pleasant
- candor
- Truthfulness; sincere honesty
- compelling
- Forceful; causing to yield
- contiguous
- Side by side; adjoining
- blatant
- Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring
- congenital
- A trait or condition acquired between conception and birth; innate
- cryptic
- mysterious; mystifying; clandestine mysterious;
- cogent
- Powerfully convincing
- covenant
- a solemn agreement; a contract; a pledge
- burlesque
- A ludicrous mocking or exaggerated imitation
- civil
- Polite; civilized; courteous
- bureaucracy
- A system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules; any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency lots of rules and red tape
- bastion
- Stronghold; fortress; fortified place
- collusion
- Conspiracy; secret cooperation
- coup
- a brilliant victory or accomplishment; the violent overthrow of a government by a small internal group ;
- Capitalism
- Free enterprise
- blight
- Disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys
- consecrate
- To make or declare sacred
- condone
- To overlook; to permit to happen
- belittle
- To make to seem little; to put someone down
- circumspect
- Cautious
- clemency
- Mercy; forgiveness; mildness
- catholic
- Universal; embracing everything
- censure
- To condemn severely for doing something bad
- beset
- Harass; to surround
- criterion
- standard; basis for judgment
- concord
- Harmony; agreement
- credulous
- eager to believe; gullible