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Bifurcate: Divided or forked into two
Blandishment: Flattering speech or actions designed to persuade or influence.
blasé: Unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity.
Bolster: To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
Boorish: rough in manners; rude; uncultured.
Bovine: Cowlike
Brazen: Impudent, immodest, or shameless; bold
Broach: Raise (a sensitive or difficult subject) for discussion); To open, or pierce
Bucolic: Rustic, pastoral, country-styled.
Burgeon: To grow or expand.
Burnish: To make smooth or shiny by rubbing; to polish; to shine.
Buttress: To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.
Cacophonous: Containing, consisting of or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds
Cadge: To beg.
Callous: Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
Calumny: a falsification or misrepresentation intended to disparage or discredit another; slander
canard: A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
Canon: A generally accepted principle.
Cant: A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
Cantankerous: Stubborn, cranky,surly, ill-humored,irritable
Capricious: Fickle
Captious: Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; intend to entrap, as in an argument
Cardinal: of foremost importance
Carnal: of the flesh or body; related to physical apetites
Cartography: Science of making maps
Castigation: Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
Cataclysm: A sudden and violent change in the earth's crust.
Categorical: absolute; having no exception
Caucus: Smaller group within an organization
Causal: of, relating to, or being a cause of something; causing
caustic: Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue
Celestial: Relating to the sky or space; sublime
Chasten: To punish or reprimand for the sake of improvement; to discipline.
Chaste: Innocent; Abstaining from sexual intercourse
Chicanery: Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
Chivalry: The fact or condition of being a knight; knightly skill, prowess.
Churlish: Rude, surly, ungracious.
Circuitous: Of a long and winding route.
Clairvoyant: A person able to foresee the future.
Clamor: A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
Clique: A small, exclusive group of individuals; cabal
Cloister: Seclude or shut up in or as if in a convent or monastery
Coagulate: To cause to congeal, to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass.
Coalesce: To join into a single mass or whole.
Coda: A passage which brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
Codify: To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code; to syntematize
Cognizant: Aware.
Collage: a composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of diverse things; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc..
Commensurate: proportionate; of a similar measurable standard
Compendium: A short, complete summary; an abstract.
Complacent: Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
Complaisant: Overly polite; Willing to do what pleases others;
Compliant: Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.
Compunction: a pricking of conscience, a slight regret; Uneasiness caused by guilt
Conciliatory: Overcoming distrust or hostility; willing to conciliate, or to make concessions
Concoct: to invent; to contrive something using skill or ingenuity
Concomitant: Existing concurently
Condone: To forgive, excuse or overlook (something).
Congenial: friendly or sociable
Conjugal: Of, or relating to marriage, or the relationship of spouses
Connoisseur: A specialist of a given field whose opinion is valued; especially in one of the fine arts, or in a matter of taste
Conscript: One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.
Consecrate: To declare, or otherwise make something holy.
Contend: to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
Contentious: Marked by heated arguments or controversy; Quarrelsome
Contiguous: connected; touching; abutting
Contrite: Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions; apologetic.
Contumacious: rebellious; disobedient; contemptuous of authority;
Conundrum: A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.
Convivial: S0ciable
Copious: Great in quantity or number, profuse, abundant.
Coquette: A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.
Cornucopia: A hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things; State of abundance
Covert: Partially hidden, disguised, secret, surreptitious.
Covetous: Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (especially money); avaricious;
cozen: To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
craven: A confessed coward.
credence: Acceptance of a belief or claim as true, especially on the basis of evidence.
credo: A belief system.
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