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- census
- An official numbering of the people of a country or district.
- Catholicism
- The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church.
- concurrence
- Agreement.
- confessor
- A spiritual advisor.
- corroborate
- To strengthen, as proof or convictio,
- connote
- To mean; signify.
- curtsy
- A downward movement of the body by bending the knees.
- continence
- Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passio,
- carnivorous
- Eating or living on flesh.
- conjecture
- A guess.
- clan
- A tribe.
- censor
- An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publicatio,
- congregate
- To bring together into a crowd.
- correlative
- Mutually involving or implying one another.
- conformation
- General structure, form, or outline.
- counter-claim
- A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff.
- cogent
- Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience.
- cartridge
- A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
- confer
- To bestow.
- connoisseur
- A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art.
- conversant
- Thoroughly informed.
- collusion
- A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
- cede
- To pass title to.
- Calvary
- The place where Christ was crucified.
- colloquy
- Conversatio,
- cohere
- To stick together.
- chattel
- Any article of personal property.
- centimeter
- A length of one hundredth of a meter.
- collapsible
- That may or can collapse.
- contumacy
- Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
- consonant
- Being in agreement or harmony with.
- cohesive
- Having the property of consistency.
- cynosure
- That to which general interest or attention is directed.
- courser
- A fleet and spirited horse.
- calumny
- Slander.
- cat-o-nine-tails
- An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
- craving
- A vehement desire.
- conscious
- Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks.
- colloquialism
- Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversatio,
- countervail
- To offset.
- cereal
- Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds.
- creak
- A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
- crusade
- Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle.
- caucus
- A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
- captious
- Hypercritical.
- creed
- A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief.
- corroboration
- Confirmatio,
- chastise
- To subject to punitive measures.
- corrosion
- Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegratio,
- clemency
- Mercy.
- cornucopia
- The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity.
- carcass
- The dead body of an animal.
- continuity
- Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development.
- chromatic
- Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
- cull
- To pick or sort out from the rest.
- conceit
- Self-flattering opinio,
- collier
- One who works in a coal-mine.
- conducive
- Contributing to an end.
- characterize
- To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities.
- chasm
- A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface.
- convertible
- Interchangeable.
- catastrophe
- Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity.
- condolence
- Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune.
- coincidence
- A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident.
- capitulate
- To surrender or stipulate terms.
- complaisance
- Politeness.
- credible
- Believable.
- crass
- Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
- converge
- To cause to incline and approach nearer together.
- complication
- An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner.
- concurrent
- Occurring or acting together.
- classify
- To arrange in a class or classes on the basis of observed resemblance's and differences.
- contumacious
- Rebellious.
- conspirator
- One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose.
- cupidity
- Avarice.
- corpuscle
- A minute particle of matter.
- capillary
- A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
- compute
- To ascertain by mathematical calculatio,
- censorious
- Judging severely or harshly.
- cipher
- To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing)
- contender
- One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry.
- credulous
- Easily deceived.
- consumption
- Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc.
- clumsy
- Awkward of movement.
- coalition
- Combination in a body or mass.
- connubial
- Pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
- conferee
- A person with whom another confers.
- contagion
- The communication of disease from person to perso,
- circulate
- To disseminate.
- check
- To hold back.
- covert
- Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
- chastity
- Sexual or moral purity.
- conformable
- Harmonious.
- critique
- A criticism or critical review.
- constable
- An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
- counting-house
- A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
- contort
- To twist into a misshapen form.
- callow
- Without experience of the world.
- complex
- Complicated.
- corporeal
- Of a material nature; physical.
- course
- Line of motion or directio,
- corporate
- Belonging to a corporatio,
- complacent
- Pleased or satisfied with oneself.
- clandestine
- Surreptitious.
- collaborate
- To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits.
- cameo
- Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
- contemptible
- Worthy of scorn or disdai,
- complicate
- To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with.
- consumptive
- Designed for gradual destructio,
- competitive
- characterized by rivalry.
- conspicuous
- Clearly visible.
- cosmopolitan
- Common to all the world.
- candid
- Straightforward.
- Christendom
- That part of the world where Christianity is generally professed.
- consort
- A companion or associate.
- countryman
- A rustic.
- cynicism
- Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value.
- clothier
- One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
- contradiction
- The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said.
- contradictory
- Inconsistent with itself.
- commodity
- Something that is bought and sold.
- compression
- Constraint, as by force or authority.
- convulse
- To cause spasms i,
- colleague
- An associate in professional employment.
- confident
- Assured.
- contrive
- To manage or carry through by some device or scheme.
- competent
- Qualified.
- capacious
- Roomy.
- coniferous
- Cone-bearing trees.
- consulate
- The place in which a consul transacts official business.
- chagrin
- Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
- concord
- Harmony.
- comprise
- To consist of.
- convulsion
- A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body.
- conductible
- Capable of being conducted or transmitted.
- culinary
- Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitche,
- confiscate
- To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury.
- condescend
- To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors.
- cygnet
- A young swa,
- cacophony
- A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
- conjoin
- To unite.
- coercive
- Serving or tending to force.
- convalesce
- To recover after a sickness.
- collegian
- A college student.
- cadenza
- An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
- conveyance
- That by which anything is transported.
- chameleon
- Changeable in appearance.
- committal
- The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being
- coincident
- Taking place at the same time.
- clement
- Compassionate.
- circumlocution
- Indirect or roundabout expressio,
- culvert
- Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
- coerce
- To force.
- comprehension
- Ability to know.
- component
- A constituent element or part.
- centiliter
- A hundredth of a liter.
- curtail
- To cut off or cut short.
- Calvinism
- The system of doctrine taught by John Calvi,
- charlatan
- A quack.
- contingent
- Not predictable.
- contagious
- Transmitting disease.
- coagulant
- Producing coagulatio,
- cajole
- To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.
- contrivance
- The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
- corollary
- A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstratio,
- casual
- Accidental, by chance.
- conversion
- Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another.
- cryptogram
- Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.
- conjugate
- Joined together in pairs.
- concordance
- Harmony.
- copious
- Plenteous.
- close-hauled
- Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
- corruptible
- Open to bribery.
- constituency
- The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
- cohesion
- Consistency.
- congenial
- Having kindred character or tastes.
- complacence
- Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings.
- consistency
- A state of permanence.
- coronation
- The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch.
- cudgel
- A short thick stick used as a club.
- continuance
- Permanence.
- contravene
- To prevent or obstruct the operation of.
- consanguineous
- Descended from the same parent or ancestor.
- cosmogony
- A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
- coercion
- Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
- contemporaneous
- Living, occurring, or existing at the same time.
- crockery
- Earthenware made from baked clay.
- curable
- Capable of being remedied or corrected.
- commitment
- The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping.
- cabalism
- Superstitious devotion to one's religio,
- ceremonial
- Characterized by outward form or ceremony.
- conflagration
- A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like.
- cholera
- An acute epidemic disease.
- chronometer
- A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precisio,
- conservative
- Adhering to the existing order of things.
- crystallize
- To bring together or give fixed shape to.
- canon
- Any rule or law.
- cosmetic
- Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexio,
- constellation
- An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.
- conciliate
- To obtain the friendship of.
- counterfeit
- Made to resemble something else.
- choral
- Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
- compliment
- To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise.
- compunction
- Remorseful feeling.
- carnal
- Sensual.
- conservatism
- Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things.
- caricature
- a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted.
- centurion
- A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army.
- confidant
- One to whom secrets are entrusted.
- compensate
- To remunerate.
- circumnavigate
- To sail quite around.
- cessation
- Discontinuance, as of action or motio,
- confide
- To reveal in trust or confidence.
- ceremonious
- Observant of ritual.
- chaos
- Any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusio,
- Canaanite
- A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.
- circumscribe
- To confine within bounds.
- canary
- Of a bright but delicate yellow.
- chateau
- A castle or manor-house.
- consignor
- One who entrusts.
- convex
- Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle.
- convalescence
- The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
- contrite
- Broken in spirit because of a sense of si,
- cajolery
- Delusive speech.
- cosmopolitanism
- A cosmopolitan character.
- consummate
- To bring to completio,
- convene
- To summon or cause to assemble.
- conceive
- To form an idea, mental image or thought of.
- clarify
- To render intelligible.
- confectionery
- The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
- conjugation
- The state or condition of being joined together.
- creamy
- Resembling or containing cream.
- compulsory
- Forced.
- confluence
- The place where streams meet.
- compress
- To press together or into smaller space.
- consecrate
- To set apart as sacred.
- consignee
- A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.
- convalescent
- Recovering health after sickness.
- clearance
- A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.
- cauterize
- To burn or sear as with a heated iro,
- clamorous
- Urgent in complaint or demand.
- cosmography
- The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology.
- convolution
- A winding motio,
- crustaceous
- Having a crust-like shell.
- collide
- To meet and strike violently.
- cycloid
- Like a circle.
- collective
- Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
- cabal
- A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.
- cession
- Surrender, as of possessions or rights.
- courtesy
- Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
- comparative
- Relative.
- centenary
- Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years.
- compliant
- Yielding.
- coddle
- To treat as a baby or an invalid.
- comport
- To conduct or behave (oneself).
- conquer
- To overcome by force.
- congeal
- To coagulate.
- corruption
- Loss of purity or integrity.
- caustic
- Sarcastic and severe.
- cadaverous
- Resembling a corpse.
- comprehensible
- Intelligible.
- correlate
- To put in some relation of connection or correspondence.
- clarion
- A small shrill trumpet or bugle.
- cower
- To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
- caret
- A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
- crag
- A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge.
- conduce
- To bring about.
- contingency
- Possibility of happening.
- cathode
- The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
- consonance
- The state or quality of being in accord with.
- commentary
- A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work.
- clangor
- Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor.
- corrode
- To ruin or destroy little by little.
- crucible
- A trying and purifying test or agency.
- convenience
- Fitness, as of time or place.
- cosmos
- The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement.
- contraband
- Trade forbidden by law or treaty.
- codicil
- A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
- conjunction
- The state of being joined together, or the things so joined.
- corrosive
- That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegratio,
- coronet
- Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereig,
- corps
- A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together.
- collector
- One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
- criterion
- A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusio,
- caprice
- A whim.
- condensation
- The act or process of making dense or denser.
- comparable
- Fit to be compared.
- curt
- Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expressio,
- crevasse
- A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier.
- covenant
- An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
- captivate
- To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
- commemorate
- To serve as a remembrance of.
- christen
- To name in baptism.
- contemporary
- Living or existing at the same time.
- contemplate
- To consider thoughtfully.
- chancery
- A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
- cosmic
- Pertaining to the universe.
- cataclysm
- Any overwhelming flood of water.
- comestible
- Fit to be eate,
- continuation
- Prolongatio,
- conspire
- To plot.
- consign
- To entrust.
- compulsion
- Coercio,
- counteract
- To act in opposition to.
- culprit
- A guilty perso,
- coalescence
- The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
- calculable
- That may be estimated by reckoning.
- characteristic
- A distinctive feature.
- colossus
- Any strikingly great person or object.
- callosity
- The state of being hard and insensible.
- conscript
- To force into military service.
- contiguity
- Proximity.
- commute
- To put something, especially something less severe, in place of.
- Calvinize
- To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism.
- cursive
- Writing in which the letters are joined together.
- continuous
- Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
- conscientious
- Governed by moral standard.
- controller
- One who or that which regulates or directs.
- causal
- Indicating or expressing a cause.
- casualty
- A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
- canine
- Characteristic of a dog.
- constrict
- To bind.
- coincide
- To correspond.
- credence
- Belief.
- collapse
- To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail.
- contributor
- One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
- corpulent
- Obese.
- catholicity
- Universal prevalence or acceptance.
- confront
- To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles.
- console
- To comfort.
- countercharge
- To accuse in retur,
- confidence
- The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another.
- colloquial
- Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
- cranium
- The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brai,
- condense
- To abridge.
- circumspect
- Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideratio,
- concerto
- A musical compositio,
- comical
- Funny.
- confluent
- A stream that unites with another.
- calculus
- A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
- candor
- The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
- chiffon
- A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
- circumference
- The boundary-line of a circle.
- consolidate
- To combine into one body or system.
- conduit
- A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid.
- cataract
- Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness.
- comparison
- Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
- congest
- To collect into a mass.
- counterbalance
- To oppose with an equal force.
- cardinal
- Of prime or special importance.
- campaign
- A complete series of connected military operations.
- cantata
- A choral compositio,
- crustacean
- Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc.
- convoy
- A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportatio,
- courageous
- Brave.
- cardiac
- Pertaining to the heart.
- collision
- Violent contact.
- conservatory
- An institution for instruction and training in music and declamatio,
- came
- A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
- conjugal
- Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons.
- castigate
- To punish.
- curio
- A piece of bric-a-brac.
- contiguous
- Touching or joining at the edge or boundary.
- covey
- A flock of quails or partridges.
- coagulate
- To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment.
- caste
- The division of society on artificial grounds.
- consternation
- Panic.
- chivalry
- The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
- consensus
- A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons.
- composure
- Calmness.
- caption
- A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc.
- carnage
- Massacre.
- complicity
- Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer.
- consul
- An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
- convergent
- Tending to one point.
- calorie
- Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade.
- caitiff
- Cowardly.
- commission
- To empower.
- canto
- One of the divisions of an extended poem.
- constituent
- One who has the right to vote at an electio,
- consecutive
- Following in uninterrupted successio,
- complaisant
- Agreeable.
- competitor
- A rival.
- conclusive
- Sufficient to convince or decide.
- cognizant
- Taking notice.
- compressible
- Capable of being pressed into smaller compass.
- confederacy
- A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid.
- crematory
- A place for cremating dead bodies.
- concur
- To agree.
- comely
- Handsome.
- concession
- Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim.
- convolve
- To move with a circling or winding motio,
- cantonment
- The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
- chronology
- The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events.
- chasten
- To purify by afflictio,
- commingle
- To blend.
- concussion
- A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
- choleric
- Easily provoked to anger.
- convivial
- Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking.
- cite
- To refer to specifically.
- confinement
- Restriction within limits or boundaries.
- cartilage
- An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
- cursory
- Rapid and superficial.
- counterpart
- Something taken with another for the completion of either.
- contribution
- The act of giving for a common purpose.
- conscience
- The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct.
- concede
- To surrender.
- claimant
- One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
- curator
- A person having charge as of a library or museum.
- crevice
- A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces.
- Christ
- A title of Jesus
- carouse
- To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
- confederate
- One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement.
- corporal
- Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
- clairvoyance
- Intuitive sagacity or perceptio,
- competence
- Adequate qualification or capacity.
- commotion
- A disturbance or violent agitatio,
- contusion
- A bruise.
- corpse
- A dead body.
- cynical
- Exhibiting moral skepticism.
- cabinet
- The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a natio,
- creamery
- A butter-making establishment.
- citadel
- Any strong fortress.
- cognate
- Aki,
- contuse
- To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the ski,
- coxswain
- One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer.
- control
- To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
- cadence
- Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.
- contemptuous
- Disdainful.
- complement
- To make complete.
- conciliatory
- Tending to reconcile.
- cant
- To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
- comprehensive
- Large in scope or content.
- commissariat
- The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
- cornice
- An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling.
- cosmology
- The general science of the universe.
- contaminate
- To pollute.
- conformity
- Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
- culpable
- Guilty.
- connive
- To be in collusio,
- conformance
- The act or state or conforming.
- carrion
- Dead and putrefying flesh.
- contraposition
- A placing opposite.
- corrigible
- Capable of reformatio,
- coquette
- A flirt.