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Word List 12
Counterpart - Decelerate
Word | Definition |
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Counterpart | one that closely resembles another; one that serves as a complement |
Coup | highly successful action or sudden attack; coup d'etat |
Couple | to join; to unite |
Courier | a messenger |
Covenant | an agreement |
Covert | secret; hidden; implied |
Covetous | avaricious; eagerly desirous of |
Cow | to terrorize; intimidate |
Cower | to shrink away, as from fear |
Coy | shy; modest; coquettish |
Cozen | to cheat; to hoodwink; to swindle |
Crabbed | sour; peevish |
Crass | very unrefined; grossly insensible |
Craven | cowardly |
Credence | belief |
Credo | creed |
Credulity | belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naivete |
Creed | system of religious or ethical belief |
Crescendo | increase in the volume or intensity, as in a musical passage; climax |
Crestfallen | dejected; dispirited |
Crevice | crack; fissure |
Cringe | to shrink back, as if in fear |
Criteria | standards used in judging |
Crone | hag |
Crotchety | eccentric; whimsical |
Crux | secret recess or vault usually used for burial |
Cryptic | mysterious; hidden; secret |
Cubicle | small chamber used for sleeping |
Cuisine | style of cooking |
Culinary | relating to cooking |
Cull | to pick out; to reject |
Culmination | attainment of highest point |
Culpable | deserving blame |
Culvert | a drain or channel crossing under a road, sidewalk, etc.; sewer; conduit |
Cumbersome | heavy; hard to manage |
Cumulative | growing by addition |
Cupidity | greed |
Curator | superintendent; manager |
Curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
Cursive | flowing, running |
Cursory | casual; hastily done |
Curtail | to shorten; to reduce |
Cynical | skeptical or distrustful of human motives |
Cynosure | center of attraction or attention |
Dabble | to work at in a nonserious fashion; to plash around |
Dais | a raised platform |
Dally | to trifle with; to procrastinate |
Dank | damp |
Dapper | neat and trim |
Dappled | spotted |
Daub | to smear (as with paint) |
Daunt | to overcome with fear: intimidate; to lessen the courage of: dishearten |
Dauntless | bold |
Dawdle | to loiter; to waste time |
Deadlock | standstill; stalemate |
Deadpan | wooden; impassive or expressionless |
Dearth | scarcity |
Debacle | a sudden downfall; a complete disaster |
Debilitate | to weaken; to enfeeble |
Debonair | friendly; aiming to please |
Debris | remains of anything broken down: rubble |
Debunk | to expose as false |
Debutante | young woman making formal entrance into society |
Decadence | decay |
Decant | to pour off gently; to transfer from container to another |
Decapitate | to behead |
Decelerate | to slow down |