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- congenial adj
- Having kindred character or tastes
- congest v
- To collect into a mass
- congregate v
- To bring together into a crowd
- coniferous adj
- Cone-bearing trees
- conjecture n
- A guess
- conjoin v
- To unite
- conjugal adj
- Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons
- conjugate adj
- Joined together in pairs
- conjugation n
- The state or condition of being joined together
- conjunction n
- The state of being joined together, or the things so joined
- connive v
- To be in collusion
- connoisseur n
- A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art
- connote v
- To mean; signify
- connubial adj
- Pertaining to marriage or matrimony
- conquer v
- To overcome by force
- consanguineous adj
- Descended from the same parent or ancestor
- conscience n
- The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct
- conscientious adj
- Governed by moral standard
- conscious adj
- Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks
- conscript v
- To force into military service
- consecrate v
- To set apart as sacred
- consecutive adj
- Following in uninterrupted succession
- consensus n
- A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons
- conservatism n
- Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things
- conservative adj
- Adhering to the existing order of things
- conservatory n
- An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation
- consign v
- To entrust
- consignee n
- A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted
- consignor n
- One who entrusts
- consistency n
- A state of permanence
- console v
- To comfort
- consolidate v
- To combine into one body or system
- consonance n
- The state or quality of being in accord with
- consonant adj
- Being in agreement or harmony with
- consort n
- A companion or associate
- conspicuous adj
- Clearly visible
- conspirator n
- One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose
- conspire v
- To plot
- constable n
- An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace
- constellation n
- An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars
- consternation n
- Panic
- constituency n
- The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body
- constituent n
- One who has the right to vote at an election
- constrict v
- To bind
- consul n
- An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country
- consulate n
- The place in which a consul transacts official business
- consummate v
- To bring to completion
- consumption n
- Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc
- consumptive adj
- Designed for gradual destruction
- contagion n
- The communication of disease from person to person
- contagious adj
- Transmitting disease
- contaminate v
- To pollute
- contemplate v
- To consider thoughtfully
- contemporaneous adj
- Living, occurring, or existing at the same time
- contemporary adj
- Living or existing at the same time
- contemptible adj
- Worthy of scorn or disdain
- contemptuous adj
- Disdainful
- contender n
- One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry
- contiguity n
- Proximity
- contiguous adj
- Touching or joining at the edge or boundary
- continence n
- Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion
- contingency n
- Possibility of happening
- contingent adj
- Not predictable
- continuance n
- Permanence
- continuation n
- Prolongation
- continuity n
- Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development
- continuous adj
- Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence
- contort v
- To twist into a misshapen form
- contraband n
- Trade forbidden by law or treaty
- contradiction n
- The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said
- contradictory adj
- Inconsistent with itself
- contraposition n
- A placing opposite
- contravene v
- To prevent or obstruct the operation of
- contribution n
- The act of giving for a common purpose
- contributor n
- One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose
- contrite adj
- Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin
- contrivance n
- The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose
- contrive v
- To manage or carry through by some device or scheme
- control v
- To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over
- controller n
- One who or that which regulates or directs
- contumacious adj
- Rebellious
- contumacy n
- Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority
- contuse v
- To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin
- contusion n
- A bruise
- convalesce v
- To recover after a sickness
- convalescence n
- The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease
- convalescent adj
- Recovering health after sickness
- convene v
- To summon or cause to assemble
- convenience n
- Fitness, as of time or place
- converge v
- To cause to incline and approach nearer together
- convergent adj
- Tending to one point
- conversant adj
- Thoroughly informed
- conversion n
- Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another
- convertible adj
- Interchangeable
- convex adj
- Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle
- conveyance n
- That by which anything is transported
- convivial adj
- Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking
- convolution n
- A winding motion
- convolve v
- To move with a circling or winding motion
- convoy n
- A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation
- convulse v
- To cause spasms in
- convulsion n
- A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body
- copious adj
- Plenteous
- coquette n
- A flirt
- cornice n
- An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling
- cornucopia n
- The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity
- corollary n
- A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration
- coronation n
- The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch
- coronet n
- Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign
- corporal adj
- Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind
- corporate adj
- Belonging to a corporation
- corporeal adj
- Of a material nature; physical
- corps n
- A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together
- corpse n
- A dead body
- corpulent adj
- Obese
- corpuscle n
- A minute particle of matter
- correlate v
- To put in some relation of connection or correspondence
- correlative adj
- Mutually involving or implying one another
- corrigible adj
- Capable of reformation
- corroborate v
- To strengthen, as proof or conviction
- corroboration n
- Confirmation
- corrode v
- To ruin or destroy little by little
- corrosion n
- Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration
- corrosive n
- That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration
- corruptible adj
- Open to bribery
- corruption n
- Loss of purity or integrity
- cosmetic adj
- Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion
- cosmic adj
- Pertaining to the universe
- cosmogony n
- A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe
- cosmography n
- The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology
- cosmology n
- The general science of the universe
- cosmopolitan adj
- Common to all the world
- cosmopolitanism n
- A cosmopolitan character
- cosmos n
- The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement
- counter-claim n
- A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff
- counteract v
- To act in opposition to
- counterbalance v
- To oppose with an equal force
- countercharge v
- To accuse in return
- counterfeit adj
- Made to resemble something else
- counterpart n
- Something taken with another for the completion of either
- countervail v
- To offset
- counting-house n
- A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc
- countryman n
- A rustic
- courageous adj
- Brave
- course n
- Line of motion or direction
- courser n
- A fleet and spirited horse
- courtesy n
- Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually
- covenant n
- An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties
- covert adj
- Concealed, especially for an evil purpose
- covey n
- A flock of quails or partridges
- cower v
- To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame
- coxswain n
- One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer
- crag n
- A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge
- cranium n
- The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain
- crass adj
- Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine
- craving n
- A vehement desire
- creak n
- A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound
- creamery n
- A butter-making establishment
- creamy adj
- Resembling or containing cream
- credence n
- Belief
- credible adj
- Believable
- credulous adj
- Easily deceived
- creed n
- A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief
- crematory adj
- A place for cremating dead bodies
- crevasse n
- A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier
- crevice n
- A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces
- criterion n
- A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion
- critique n
- A criticism or critical review
- crockery n
- Earthenware made from baked clay
- crucible n
- A trying and purifying test or agency
- crusade n
- Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle
- crustacean adj
- Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc
- crustaceous adj
- Having a crust-like shell
- cryptogram n
- Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning
- crystallize v
- To bring together or give fixed shape to
- cudgel n
- A short thick stick used as a club
- culinary adj
- Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen
- cull v
- To pick or sort out from the rest
- culpable adj
- Guilty
- culprit n
- A guilty person
- culvert n
- Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal
- cupidity n
- Avarice
- curable adj
- Capable of being remedied or corrected
- curator n
- A person having charge as of a library or museum
- curio n
- A piece of bric-a-brac
- cursive adj
- Writing in which the letters are joined together
- cursory adj
- Rapid and superficial
- curt adj
- Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression
- curtail v
- To cut off or cut short
- curtsy n
- A downward movement of the body by bending the knees
- cycloid adj
- Like a circle
- cygnet n
- A young swan
- cynical adj
- Exhibiting moral skepticism
- cynicism n
- Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value
- cynosure n
- That to which general interest or attention is directed
- daring adj
- Brave
- darkling adv
- Blindly
- Darwinism n
- The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms
- dastard n
- A base coward
- datum n
- A premise, starting-point, or given fact
- dauntless adj
- Fearless
- day-man n
- A day-laborer
- dead-heat n
- A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner
- dearth n
- Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable
- death's-head n
- A human skull as a symbol of death
- debase v
- To lower in character or virtue
- debatable adj
- Subject to contention or dispute
- debonair adj
- Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner
- debut n
- A first appearance in society or on the stage
- decagon n
- A figure with ten sides and ten angles
- decagram n
- A weight of 10 grams
- decaliter n
- A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters
- decalogue n
- The ten commandments
- Decameron n
- A volume consisting of ten parts or books
- decameter n
- A length of ten meters
- decamp v
- To leave suddenly or unexpectedly
- decapitate v
- To behead
- decapod adj
- Ten-footed or ten-armed
- decasyllable n
- A line of ten syllables
- deceit n
- Falsehood
- deceitful adj
- Fraudulent
- deceive v
- To mislead by or as by falsehood
- decency n
- Moral fitness
- decent adj
- Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress
- deciduous adj
- Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc
- decimal adj
- Founded on the number 10
- decimate v
- To destroy a measurable or large proportion of
- decipher v
- To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible
- decisive ad
- Conclusive
- declamation n
- A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public
- declamatory adj
- A full and formal style of utterance
- declarative adj
- Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation
- declension n
- The change of endings in nouns and adj
- decorate v
- To embellish
- decorous adj
- Suitable for the occasion or circumstances
- decoy n
- Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation
- decrepit adj
- Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity
- dedication n
- The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause
- deduce v
- To derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles
- deface v
- To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of
- defalcate v
- To cut off or take away, as a part of something
- defamation n
- Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another
- defame v
- To slander
- default n
- The neglect or omission of a legal requirement
- defendant n
- A person against whom a suit is brought
- defensible adj
- Capable of being maintained or justified
- defensive adj
- Carried on in resistance to aggression
- defer v
- To delay or put off to some other time
- deference n
- Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment
- defiant adj
- Characterized by bold or insolent opposition