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| capricious | adj. tending to change quickly without apparent reason; fickle; impulsive |
| cataclysm | n. a flood, earthquake, war, or any sudden, violent change; a disaster |
| cavil | v. to find fault unnecessarily; to raise trivial objections; n. a petty objection; a trivial criticism |
| chicanery | n. the use of clever trickery to deceive |
| chimerical | adj. imaginary; fantastic; impossible |
| cognizant | adj. aware or informed about something |
| collateral | adj. parallel in time, rank,importance, etc.; aside from the main subject; secondary; n. anything that guarantees the fulfillment of a loan or obligation |
| complaisance | n. agreeableness; willingness to please |
| compunction | n. remorse; regret; uneasiness of mind |
| conjecture | n. a guess based on incomplete evidence; an inference; v. to guess; to infer |
| conjugal | adj. pertaining to marriage or to husbands and wives |
| consanguinity | n. a blood realtionship |
| contravene | v. to go against (a rule or law) |
| contrive | v. to plan cleverly, to manage to do, to plot |
| conversant | adj. familiar with because of study or experience |
| cosmic | adj. having to do with the whole universe, pertaining to the cosmos, vast |
| cosmopolitan | adj. at home in all parts of the world, sophisticated; n. a sophisticated person |
| coterie | n. a circle of friends, a small group of people who associate together |
| couplet | n. two successive lines of poetry that rhyme and are the same length |
| covet | v. to want something that belongs to another, to wish for something excessively |
| credible | adj. believable, reliable, trustworthy |
| credulous | adj. too ready to believe, gullible, easily deceived |
| cryptic | adj. having a hidden meaning |
| decorum | n. good behavior; propriety of action, speech, or dress; conformity to social mores |
| deduction | n. a conclusion based on reasoning; a subtraction; an amount subtracted from something |
| defect | n. a deficiency or imperfection v. to desert one's country or side |
| demure | adj. assuming an air of modesty or shyness; reserved |
| denizen | n. an inhabitant; a person, plant or animal at home in a particular region |
| derive | v. to get or receive; to trace to a source; to come from a particular source |
| derogatory | adj. disparaging; belittling; meant to show an unfavorable opinion of something or someone |
