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July 13
Vocabulary Words
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Colloquial | characteristic of informal speech |
| Collusion | collaboration, complicity, conspiricy |
| Commensurate | proportional |
| Communicable | transmittable |
| Commute | to change a penalty to a less severe one |
| Complement | to complete, perfect |
| Complicity | knowing partnership in wrongdoing |
| Compunction | feeling of uneasiness caused by guilt or regret |
| Concave | curving inward |
| Concede | to yield, admit |
| Conciliatory | overcoming distrust or hostility |
| Condone | to pardon or forgive; overlook, justify, or excuse a fault |
| Conduit | tube, pipe, or similar passage |
| Conflagration | big, destructive fire |
| Congeal | to become thick or solid, as a liquid freezing |
| Congenial | similar in tastes and habits |
| Conglomerate | collected group of varied things |
| Conjecture | speculation, prediction |
| Consecrate | to declare sacred; dedicate to a goal |
| Consensus | unanimity, agreement of opinion or attitude |
| Constrained | forced, compelled; confined, restrained |
| Construe | to explain or interpret |
| Contentious | quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent |
| Continence | self-confidence, self-restraint |
| Contravene | to contridict, deny, act contrary to |
| Conundrum | riddle, puzzle or problem with no solution |
| Convalescence | gradual recovery after an illness |
| Conventional | typical, customary, commonplace |
| Corroborate | to confirm, verify |
| Cosmopolitan | sophisticated, free from local prejudices |