| clement | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) physically mild | - |
| clementine | (noun) a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds | - |
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| (noun) a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa | Synonyms: clementine tree |
| cleome | (noun) any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers | Synonyms: spiderflower |
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| clime | (noun) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | Synonyms: climate |
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| clinometer | (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: inclinometer |
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| coenzyme | (noun) a small molecule (not a protein but sometimes a vitamin) essential for the activity of some enzymes | - |
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| cognomen | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: family name, last name, surname |
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| (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
| colorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents | Synonyms: tintometer |
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| colorimetric | (adjective) of or relating to colorimetry | Synonyms: colorimetrical |
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| colorimetrical | (adjective) of or relating to colorimetry | Synonyms: colorimetric |
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| colorimetry | (noun) quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter | Synonyms: colorimetric analysis |
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| columella | (noun) a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal | - |
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| come | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: cum, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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| (verb) come to pass; arrive, as in due course | - |
| (verb) be found or available | - |
| (verb) reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position | - |
| (verb) happen as a result | - |
| (verb) have a certain priority | - |
| (verb) come to one's mind; suggest itself | Synonyms: occur |
| (verb) move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody | Synonyms: come up |
| (verb) be received | Synonyms: come in |
| (verb) cover a certain distance | - |
| (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: arrive, get |
| (verb) experience orgasm | - |
| (verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: do, fare, get along, make out |
| (verb) extend or reach | - |
| (verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) exist or occur in a certain point in a series | - |
| (verb) be a native of | Synonyms: hail |
| (verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, amount |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, number, total |
| (verb) come forth | Synonyms: issue forth |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: derive, descend |
| comeback | (noun) return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte |
| comedian | (noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comic |
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| (noun) an actor in a comedy | - |
| comedienne | (noun) a female comedian | - |
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| (noun) a female actor in a comedy | - |
| comedo | (noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | Synonyms: blackhead |
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| comedogen | (noun) A substance that tends to produce acne, such as by clogging pores on the skin. | Synonyms: comedogenic, comedogenic substance |
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| comedogenic | (noun) A substance that tends to produce acne, such as by clogging pores on the skin. | Synonyms: comedogen, comedogenic substance |
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| comedown | (noun) decline to a lower status or level | - |
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| comedy | (noun) light and humorous drama with a happy ending | - |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, drollery, funniness |
| comeliness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, fairness, loveliness |
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| comely | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, fair, sightly |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
| comer | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, arriver |
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| (noun) someone with a promising future | - |
| comestible | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible |
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| (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
| comet | (noun) (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit | - |
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| cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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| cometic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometary |
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| comeupance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeuppance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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| comeuppance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeupance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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| commandment | (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: precept, teaching |
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| (noun) something that is commanded | - |
| commelina | (noun) any plant of the genus Commelina | - |
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| commemorate | (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: remember |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| (verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: mark |
| commemorating | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorative |
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| commemoration | (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: memorial, remembrance |
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| (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: memorialisation, memorialization |
| commemorative | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorating |
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| (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
| commence | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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| (verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: begin, lead off, start |
| (verb) get off the ground | Synonyms: embark on, start, start up |
| commencement | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: beginning, start |
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| (noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| commend | (verb) express approbation of | - |
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| (verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: remember |
| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: recommend |
| (verb) give to in charge | - |
| (verb) present as worthy of regard, kindness, or confidence | - |
| commendable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: applaudable, laudable, praiseworthy |
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| (adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: admirably, laudably, praiseworthily |
| commendation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: citation |
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| (noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: approval |
| commensal | (adjective) living in a state of commensalism | - |
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| (noun) either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent | - |
| commensalism | (noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it | - |
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| commensally | (adverb) in a commensal manner | - |
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| commensurable | (adjective) capable of being measured by a common standard | - |
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| commensurate | (adjective) corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| commensurateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: correspondence, proportionateness |
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| comment | (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: input, remark |
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| (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: commentary |
| (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: gossip, scuttlebutt |
| (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: notice, point out, remark |
| (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: annotate, gloss |
| (verb) explain or interpret something | - |
| commentary | (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: comment |
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| commentate | (verb) serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting | - |
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| (verb) make a commentary on | - |
| commentator | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: reviewer |
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| (noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: observer |
| commerce | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commercialism, mercantilism |
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| (noun) social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc. | - |
| commercial | (adjective) connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to commercialism | - |
| (adjective) of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior | Synonyms: commercial-grade |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking |
| (noun) a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television | Synonyms: commercial message |
| commercialisation | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialization |
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| commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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| commercialised | (adjective) organized principally for financial gain | Synonyms: commercialized |
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| commercialism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, mercantilism |
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| commercialization | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialisation |
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| commercialize | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialise, market |
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| (verb) exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality | - |
| commercialized | (adjective) organized principally for financial gain | Synonyms: commercialised |
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| commercially | (adverb) in a commercial manner | - |
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| commitment | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, dedication, loyalty |
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| (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: committal, consignment |
| (noun) an engagement by contract involving financial obligation | - |
| (noun) the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose | Synonyms: committedness |
| (noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: dedication |
| compartment | (noun) a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area | - |
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| (noun) a space into which an area is subdivided | - |
| compartmental | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalised, compartmentalized |
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| compartmentalisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalization |
| compartmentalise | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalize, cut up |
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| compartmentalised | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalized |
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| compartmentalization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalisation |
| compartmentalize | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalise, cut up |
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| compartmentalized | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalised |
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| compartmented | (adjective) divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units | - |
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| complement | (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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| (noun) either of two parts that mutually complete each other | - |
| (noun) a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction | - |
| (noun) number needed to make up a whole force | Synonyms: full complement |
| (noun) a complete number or quantity | - |
| (noun) one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response | - |
| (verb) make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to | - |
| complemental | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complementary, completing |
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| complementarity | (noun) a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities | - |
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| (noun) the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other | - |
| complementary | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, completing |
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| (adjective) of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other | - |
| (noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
| complementation | (noun) (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts | Synonyms: complementary distribution |
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| (noun) the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate | - |
| compliment | (noun) a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration | - |
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| (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: congratulate |
| (verb) express respect or esteem for | - |
| complimentariness | (noun) The state or quality of being in the nature of an expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect. | - |
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| complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
| compliments | (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: regard, wish |
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| comportment | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, mien, presence |
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| concealment | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, hiding |
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| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: cover, covert, screen |
| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: privacy, privateness, secrecy |
| condiment | (noun) a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment | - |
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| conferment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, bestowment, conferral |
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| confinement | (noun) the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them | - |
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| (noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: restriction |
| (noun) the state of being confined | - |
| (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| confirmed | (adjective) having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation | - |
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| (adjective) of persons; not subject to change | - |
| congealment | (noun) the process of congealing; solidification by (or as if by) freezing | Synonyms: congelation |
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| conglomerate | (adjective) composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass | - |
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| (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: empire |
| (noun) a composite rock made up of particles of varying size | Synonyms: pudding stone |
| (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, cumulate, gather, pile up |
| conglomeration | (noun) an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass | Synonyms: conglobation |
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| (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: aggregate, congeries |
| (noun) a rounded spherical form | Synonyms: conglobation |
| consignment | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, committal |
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| (noun) the delivery of goods for sale or disposal | - |
| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| consomme | (noun) clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken | - |
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| consume | (verb) engage fully | - |
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| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: have, ingest, take, take in |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: squander, ware, waste |
| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: demolish, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | - |
| consumer | (noun) a person who uses goods or services | - |
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| consumerism | (noun) a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers | - |
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| (noun) the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial | - |
| containment | (noun) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor | - |
| (noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully | - |
| contentment | (noun) happiness with one's situation in life | - |
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| contumelious | (adjective) arrogantly insolent | - |
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| contumeliously | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contemptuously, disdainfully, scornfully |
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| contumely | (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, insult, revilement, vilification |
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| copolymer | (noun) a polymer consisting of two or more different monomers | - |
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