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Week 4 words 111-140
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| caustic | capable of burning, corroding or dissolving; sarcastic; causing a burning or stinging sensation as from intense emotion |
| censor | Person authorized to examine materials and remove what is considered morally, politically or otherwise questionable |
| chalk | A soft compact, CaCo3, with varying amounts of silica, quartz, feldspar, or other mineral impurities, generally gray-white or yellow-white and derived chiefly from fossil seashells |
| Chaos | A condition or place of great disorder or confusion |
| Charybdis | A whirlpool off of the Sicilian coast, opposite of the cave of Scylla |
| Chide | A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as in “Each throat/Was parched, and glazed each eye.” |
| Chide | To scold mildly as to correct or improve, reprimand |
| Christened | To baptize into a Christian church |
| Chronicle | An extended account in prose or verse of historical events, sometimes including legendary material, presented in chronological order without authorial interpretation or comment |
| Churlish | Of, like, or befitting a churl; boorish or vulgar. |
| Circumlocutions | The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language |
| claim | to demand, ask for, or take as one’s own |
| clamor | a loud outcry |
| cliché | a trite or overused expression or idea |
| coarse | of low, common, or inferior quality |
| collateral | situated or running side by side; parallel |
| colloquial | writing that emulates speech; informal |
| commerce | the buying and selling of goods |
| comparison | a statement or estimate of similarities and differences |
| complexity | the quality or condition of being complex; intricate |
| compunction | a strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt |
| conciliatory | (conciliate) to appease; appeasing |
| concise | expressing much in few words |
| conclusive | serving to put an end to doubt |
| concrete | relating to an actual specific thing |
| condemnation | the act of condemning: to express strong disapproval of |
| conducive | to cause or bring about |
| conformable | corresponding or similar |
| connotative | (connotation) than idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thin |
| consciousness | a sense of one’s personal or collective identity |
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