Vocab Group # 6
Terms
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- Corp
- body
- Cogn/gno
- know
- Microcosm
- -noun 1. a little world; a world in miniature (opposed to macrocosm).2. anything that is regarded as a world in miniature. 3. human beings, humanity, society, or the like, viewed as an epitome or miniature of the world or universe.
- Agnostic
- -noun 1. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.2. a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of study. -adjective 3. of or pertaining to agnostics or agnosticism. 4. asserting the uncertainty of all claims to knowledge.
- Convoluted
- -adjective 1. twisted; coiled.2. complicated; intricately involved: a convoluted way of describing a simple device.
- Cosmopolitan
- -adjective 1. free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.2. of or characteristic of a cosmopolite. 3. belonging to all the world; not limited to just one part of the world. 4. Botany, Zoology. widely distributed over the globe. -noun 5. a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite.
- Convivial
- -adjective 1. friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.2. fond of feasting, drinking, and merry company; jovial. 3. of or befitting a feast; festive.
- Congenial
- -adjective 1. agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character: congenial surroundings.2. suited or adapted in spirit, feeling, temper, etc.; compatible: a congenial couple.
- Contrite
- -adjective 1. caused by or showing sincere remorse.2. filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement; penitent: a contrite sinner.
- Compatriot
- noun 1. a native or inhabitant of one's own country; fellow countryman or countrywoman.-adjective 2. of the same country.
- Conciliatory
- -adjective tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- Complicity
- -noun, plural -ties. the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing: complicity in a crime.
- Co/Com/Con
- with, together
- Cognizance
- -noun 1. awareness, realization, or knowledge; notice; perception: The guests took cognizance of the snide remark.2. Law. a. judicial notice as taken by a court in dealing with a cause. b. the right of taking jurisdiction, as possessed by a court. c. acknowledgment; admission, as a plea admitting the fact alleged in the declaration. 3. the range or scope of knowledge, observation, etc.: Such understanding is beyond his cognizance. 4. Heraldry. a device by which a person or a person's servants or property can be recognized; badge.
- Cosmo/Cosm
- world
- Corpulence
- -noun bulkiness or largeness of body; fatness; portliness.