| closest | (adverb) (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance | Synonyms: nearest, nighest |
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| closet | (noun) a small private room for study or prayer | - |
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| (noun) a toilet in Britain | Synonyms: loo, W.C., water closet |
| (noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes | Synonyms: press, wardrobe |
| (noun) a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space | Synonyms: cupboard |
| (verb) confine to a small space, as for intensive work | - |
| clot | (noun) a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid | Synonyms: coagulum |
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| (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, curdle |
| (verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state | Synonyms: coagulate |
| (verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state | Synonyms: coagulate |
| (verb) coalesce or unite in a mass | Synonyms: clog |
| cloudburst | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| clout | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, lick, poke, punch, slug |
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| (noun) a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood | Synonyms: clout nail |
| (noun) special advantage or influence | Synonyms: pull |
| (noun) a target used in archery | - |
| (verb) strike hard, especially with the fist | - |
| cloveroot | (noun) hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: clover-root, Geum urbanum, herb bennet, wood avens |
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| clubfoot | (noun) congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes | Synonyms: talipes |
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| coact | (verb) act together, as of organisms | - |
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| coagulant | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulator |
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| coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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| coalpit | (noun) a mine where coal is dug from the ground | Synonyms: coal mine |
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| coapt | (verb) fit tightly and fasten | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: conglutinate |
| coast | (noun) the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | Synonyms: glide, slide |
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| (noun) the area within view | - |
| (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean | Synonyms: sea-coast, seacoast, seashore |
| (noun) a slope down which sleds may coast | - |
| (verb) move effortlessly; by force of gravity | - |
| coat | (noun) growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal | Synonyms: pelage |
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| (noun) an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors | - |
| (noun) a thin layer covering something | Synonyms: coating |
| (verb) cover or provide with a coat | - |
| (verb) put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface | Synonyms: surface |
| (verb) form a coat over | Synonyms: cake |
| cobalt | (noun) a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition | Synonyms: atomic number 27, Co |
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| cobnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, filbert, hazelnut |
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| (noun) small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe | Synonyms: Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, filbert |
| cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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| cockloft | (noun) a small loft or garret | - |
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| cockpit | (noun) compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft | - |
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| (noun) seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car | - |
| (noun) a pit for cockfights | - |
| cocksfoot | (noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cockspur, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
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| cocoanut | (noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | Synonyms: coconut |
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| coconut | (noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | Synonyms: cocoanut |
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| (noun) the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries | Synonyms: coconut meat |
| (noun) tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics | Synonyms: coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera |
| codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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| coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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| coelostat | (noun) optical device used to follow the path of a celestial body and reflect its light into a telescope; has a movable and a fixed mirror | - |
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| coexist | (verb) exist together | Synonyms: cohabit |
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| (verb) coexist peacefully, as of nations | - |
| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| coffeepot | (noun) tall pot in which coffee is brewed | - |
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| cogent | (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: telling, weighty |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| cognizant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognisant |
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| cohabit | (verb) share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple | Synonyms: live together, shack up |
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| (verb) exist together | Synonyms: coexist |
| coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
| (adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
| (adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
| cohort | (noun) a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | - |
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| (noun) a company of companions or supporters | - |
| (noun) a group of people having approximately the same age | Synonyms: age bracket, age group |
| coincident | (adjective) matching point for point | - |
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| (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
| colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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| colicroot | (noun) any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic | Synonyms: colic root, crow corn, star grass, unicorn root |
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| collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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| collect | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: cod |
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| (noun) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England | - |
| (adverb) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays | - |
| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
| (verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| (verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
| (verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
| collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
| collet | (noun) a band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewelry setting | - |
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| (noun) a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting | Synonyms: ferrule |
| (noun) a cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in a lathe | Synonyms: collet chuck |
| colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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| colonist | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: settler |
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| colorcast | (noun) a television program that is broadcast in color | Synonyms: colourcast |
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| (verb) broadcast in color | - |
| colorfast | (adjective) having color that is resistant to fading or running | - |
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| colorist | (noun) a painter able to achieve special effects with color | - |
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| colourcast | (noun) a television program that is broadcast in color | Synonyms: colorcast |
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| colt | (noun) a young male horse under the age of four | - |
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| coltsfoot | (noun) perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly | Synonyms: Tussilago farfara |
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| (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: beetleweed, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy, wandflower |
| columnist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: editorialist |
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| combat | (noun) an engagement fought between two military forces | Synonyms: armed combat |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: fight, fighting, scrap |
| (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: battle |
| combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper |
| comburant | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburent, combustive |
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| comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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| combust | (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) get very angry and fly into a rage | Synonyms: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit |
| (verb) cause to become violent or angry | - |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: burn |
| 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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| comfit | (noun) candy containing a fruit or nut | - |
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| (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: confect, confection |
| comfort | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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| (noun) assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal | - |
| (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comforter, puff, quilt |
| (noun) a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment | - |
| (noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfortableness |
| (noun) a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state | Synonyms: ease |
| (noun) satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing | - |
| (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: ease |
| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: console, solace, soothe |
| commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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| commandment | (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: precept, teaching |
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| (noun) something that is commanded | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| commissariat | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: provender, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| commit | (verb) make a set of changes permanent | - |
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| (verb) transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved | - |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: consecrate, dedicate, devote, give |
| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: confide, entrust, intrust, trust |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: invest, place, put |
| (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: perpetrate, pull |
| (verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: practice |
| 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 |
| communicant | (noun) a person entitled to receive Communion | - |
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| communist | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communistic |
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| (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: commie |
| compact | (adjective) closely and firmly united or packed together | - |
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| (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compendious, succinct, summary |
| (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset |
| (noun) a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse | Synonyms: powder compact |
| (noun) a small and economical car | Synonyms: compact car |
| (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: concordat, covenant |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, pack, wad |
| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compress, pack together |
| (verb) have the property of being packable or of compacting easily | Synonyms: pack |
| compart | (verb) lay out in parts according to a plan | - |
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| 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 | - |
| compatriot | (noun) a person from your own country | - |
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| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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| complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
| (noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
| (noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
| (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
| complaisant | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: obliging |
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| complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
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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 | - |
| compliant | (adjective) inclined to comply | - |
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| complicit | (adjective) involved with others in an activity that is unlawful or morally wrong | - |
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| 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 | - |
| complot | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, conjure, conspire, machinate |
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| component | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: constituent, element |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: constituent, element, factor, ingredient |
| (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component part, constituent, part, portion |
| comport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: behave |
| comportment | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, mien, presence |
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| compost | (noun) a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer | - |
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| (verb) convert to compost | - |
| 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 |
| conceit | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceitedness, vanity |
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| (noun) a witty or ingenious turn of phrase | - |
| (noun) an artistic device or effect | - |
| (noun) an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things | - |
| (noun) feelings of excessive pride | Synonyms: amour propre, self-love, vanity |
| concept | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: conception, construct |
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| concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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| (verb) settle by agreement | - |
| (verb) contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement | - |
| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| conchologist | (noun) a collector and student of mollusc shells | - |
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| concoct | (verb) make a concoction (of) by mixing | - |
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| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: dream up, hatch, think of, think up |
| (verb) prepare or cook by mixing ingredients | Synonyms: cook up |
| (verb) invent | Synonyms: trump up |
| concomitant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence |
| concordant | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concurring |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant |
| concordat | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, covenant |
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| concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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| concurrent | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| condiment | (noun) a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment | - |
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| condolent | (adjective) expressing sympathy with a person who experienced the death of a loved one | - |
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