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cabbage
cabbage plant, cole
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cabin
cell, chamber, pod
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cafeteria
lunchroom
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Cairo
Fustat, Fostat
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calculate
cipher, supputate, suppute
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calculation
evaluation, reckoning, calculus, ciphering, computing
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calf
bullet, cowlet, cowling, moggy
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calligraphy
chirography, penmanship
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calling
vocation
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calm
collected, composed, cool-headed, equable, equanimous
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camp
campy, campish
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campground
camping ground
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can
dump, scrap, stifle, make silent, let go
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cancel
abrogate, annul, belay, cease, cross out
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cancer
Crab
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candied
crystallized
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candy
confectionery, sweets, lollies, sugar candy
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canker
encanker
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cannot
can't
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canter
lope
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Cantonese
Yue Chinese, Yue, Cantonese language, Cantonese dialect
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caped
becaped
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capitalist
capitalistic
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Capitol
Capitoline Hill, Capitole
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capote
cappo
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cappuccino
cap, capp
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capture
seize, take away, abduct, kidnap, hold hostage
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carcass
corpse
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care
becare, bother, concern oneself, heed, mind
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careful
deliberate
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careless
cursory, derelict, heedless, irregardless, irrespective
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Carmel
Rumsen, Rumsien, San Carlos, Carmeleno
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carmine
crimson, cochineal, C.I. 75470, E120
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carnage
massacre, bloodbath
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carnivorous
sarcophagic, sarcophagous
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carpentry
carpenting
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carpeting
carpet
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carry
bear, move, transport, tote, cart
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case
befall, grammatical case
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casserole
hotdish
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castellan
chatelain
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castrate
geld, spay f, neuter, sterilize, alter
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castration
orchiectomy
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cat
baudrons, domestic cat, grimalkin, kibty, housecat
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catastrophic
catastrophal
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catch
seizure, capture, collar, snatch, grasp
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catching
taking
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catchphrase
signature phrase, catchword
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categorically
definitively, unconditionally
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cause
basis, genesis, germ, origin, principle
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caution
cautiousness, caginess, care, carefulness, circumspection
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cave
earthhole
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caveman
male chauvinist, Neanderthal
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ceiling
ceil
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celebration
entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, function
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celibacy
sexlessness
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celibate
celibatist, abstinent
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cell
cyte
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centennial
hundred-year-old, centenary
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center
centroid, center of gravity, center of mass, middle, midst
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certain
assured, clear, confident, doubtless, definite
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certainly
damn right, damn straight, fo shizzle, for sure, oh yeah
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chairwoman
chairmaness
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challenge
becall, call out
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chamber
lust
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Champagne
bubbly, champ, champers, fizz, shampoo
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chance
come to pass, occur, transpire, come on, come upon
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chancery
in chancery
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change
alter, modify, make another, alteration, deviation
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changeable
changeful, changeling, dynamic, everchanging, fickle
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channel
sound, strait, station, gutter
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chaos
disorder
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chapter
ch., chap., chpt.
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char
coal, blacken, scorch, sear, singe
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characteristic
designation, distinction, distinctiveness, feature, owndom
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charisma
charm, spell
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charitable
eleemosynary
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charity
charitable organization
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Charles
Chas.
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Charlie
Charley, Charlee, Charli, Charleigh
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Charon
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chase
pursue
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chat
visit
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chatter
babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber
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chatterbox
jabberer, chatterer, yakker, airbag, babblemouth
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cheap
bargainous, brand X, budget, cheapie, cheapo
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checkmate
mate
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cheeky
sassy, saucy, insolent, audacious, bold
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cheer
acclaim, acclamate, applaud, hail, barrack
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cheers
catch you later, cheerio, laters, you, you later
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cheese
money, fromage, gamebreaking
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Chennai
Chenappapatam, Chennapatnam, Chennapattanamu, Chinapatam, Chinapatana
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chevron
wicket
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chi
Taiwanese foot, Hong Kong foot, chek
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chicken
biddy, chook
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chickenshit
chicken, wuss, bullcrap, junk, trash
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chief
chieftain
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chiefly
particularly, for the most part, largely
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childish
immature, silly, unbecoming, juvenile, puerile
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childlike
bairnlike, childly, infantile, juvenile, juvey
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chillax
chill out, relax, unwind
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chilly
cold
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chime
alarm, bell, buzz, buzzer, carillon
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China
Cathay, Manji, Han, Mangi, Greater China
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Chinese
Sinic, Sino-, Seric, Serian, Serican
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chink
Chinaman, ching chong
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chocolate
choc, choccy, chockie, chocky, choco
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choose
accept, adopt, appoint, cast, crave
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Christian
charitable, helpful, kind, neighborly, neighbourly
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chrome
chromium-plate
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chronic
prolonged, terrible, splendid
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chu
Huan Chu (5th century state), Ma Chu (10th century state)
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chuck
chuckie, chucky, chuckstone, chuckiestone
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chuckle
pet, touch up, posset
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chump
blockhead, idiot, dope, dolt, dunce
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church
autem, congregation
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cicada
cicala, harvest fly, jarfly, lyreman
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cider
hard cider, pomade, pomatum, pomace, sweet cider
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cinch
breeze
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cinematographer
cinematographist
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cinematography
filmmaking § Synonyms
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circuit
dao, lu, route, tao
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circular
annular, cyclic, discoid, round, rounded
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circulate
put about, spread, disseminate
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circumcised
circed, clipped, cut, flayed, foreskinless
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circumcision
circ, male circumcision, posthectomy, posthetomy
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circumference
perimeter, umstroke, lap
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circumstance
position, posture
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circumstantial
accidental, coincidental, coinstantial, contingent, happenstantial
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citadel
fortress, bastion, stronghold, bulwark
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citizen
burgess, burgher, denizen, townsman, townswoman
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civilization
sphere
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clasp
beclasp, grasp, grip, join, put together
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class
category, description, stripe, fashion, division
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classic
classical
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classical
classic
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classify
brand, cast, class, categorize, compartmentalise
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clean
clean as a bean, clean as a hound's tooth, clean as a new penny, clean as a whistle, clean as a new pin
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clearly
unambiguously, obviously
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clem
clemmy
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cleric
blackcoat, clerical, clergymember, clergyperson
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clerical
black-collar, cleric, pastoral
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clerk
register, registrar, scribe, secretary
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climax
auxesis, catacosmesis, apex
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clingy
clinging, close-fitting
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clitoris
bean, butter bean, boy in the boat, button, clit
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cloaked
becloaked
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cloakroom
cloaks
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close
end, finale, near, nearby, intimate
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closed
shut
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clot
coagulate, congeal
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clothe
don, put on, accouter, address, apparel
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clothed
aguised, beclad, habilimented, nonnude, sarkit
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clothing
clothes, attire, apparel, threads, garment
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clown
jester, and laughingstock
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club
confraternity, cudgel, team
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clue
signature
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cluster
constellate
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coax
blandander, blandish, butter up, cajole, fast-talk
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cocaine
benzoylmethylecgonine, blow, Bolivian marching powder, booger sugar, boots
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cock
cockbird, rooster
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cockatoo
cocky
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Cockney
pansy, sissy
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coddle
pamper, posset, spoil
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coerce
compel, bully, dragoon, bludgeon
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coffee
color, jamoke, java, joe
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coiled
looped
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coincidence
synchronicity
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coke
the list at soda
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cold
algid, Arctic, Baltic, boreal, brass monkeys
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collaborate
liaise
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collaborator
collaborationist, collaboratress, collaboratrix, jackal, quisler
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collar
collum
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collect
gather up, secure, gather, mass, merge
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college
faculty, school
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collide
clash
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Cologne
eau de Cologne
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color
blee, hue, shade, tincture, tint
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colored
hued
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colorful
multicolored, polychromatic
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combine
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comedian
funnyman, funnywoman
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comet
☄, faxed star
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comfort
besoothe, cheer, console, solace, soothe
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comic
comedic, comical
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comical
comic, comedial, comedic
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command
behest, bidding, commandment, decree, demand
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commence
begin
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commentator
interpreter
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commerce
trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange
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commie
commo
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commitment
allegiance, charge, committal, consignment, dedication
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common
average, basic, bog-standard, common as bums, common as dirt
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commoner
meanling, peasant, peon, pleb, prole
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commonly
most of the time
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commotion
ado, argy-bargy, bangarang, bobbery, brouhaha
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communicate
articulate, common, convey, make known, express
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communist
red, pink, pinko, commie, commo
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compact
close, crowded, dense, solid, thick
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company
have sex, make love
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compass
pair of compasses
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compassion
empathy, mercy, ruth, pity, sorrow
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compensate
reimburse, offset, acclimate, accommodate, accustom
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compensation
amends, acquittal, assyth, bote, indemnification
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competence
ability, competency, nous, savoir-faire, knack
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complacent
smug, self-satisfied, placid
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complain
beef, bellyache, bemoan, bleat, whimper
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complaint
complaint of an offence, offense, criminal information, inform the police, authorities
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completely
absolutely, all-out, tout à fait, all the way, blind
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completion
completeness, doneness, accomplishment, completement, conclusion
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complex
complexed, complicate, complicated, convoluted, Gordian
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complexity
complicacy, complexness, complicate, complicatedness, complication
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compliance
compliancy
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complicate
complex, complexify, complify, confuscate, desimplify
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complication
entanglement, intricacy, snarl, wheel within a wheel
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compose
form, indite, compound, comprise, make up
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composition
constitution, blend, melange, arrangement, form
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comprehension
understanding
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compress
astringe, compact, telescope, compactify, condense
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comprise
make up
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compulsory
mandatory, binding, compulsatory, decretory, forced
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computation
calculus
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computer
'puter, box, calculator, data processing machine, electronic brain
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computing
reckoning
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comrade
battle buddy, tovarish, compagno
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concede
give up, come around, give way
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concept
conception, notion, abstraction
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conceptual
conceptualistic
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concerning
alarming, worrisome
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concession
tithe
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concise
brief, crisp, laconic, lapidary, short-winded
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concur
sympathize, accord, agree, coexist
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condemnation
attainder, attainture, attaintment, blame, censure
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conditional
conditioned, in logic, limited, relative, contingent
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condom
cum catcher, rubber
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condone
excuse, forgive, overlook, tolerate
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conduct
abear, bearing, abearance, behavior, carriage
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cone
conical surface
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confess
acknowledge, admit, assent, avow, beknow
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conflicted
ambivalent
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conform
comply, go along to get along, knuckle under, submit, blow with the wind
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conformity
abidance, accordance, acquiescence, adherence, complacence
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confuse
flummox, mistake, addle, baffle, vex
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confused
addle-pated, addled, addlepated, at a loss, at a loss for words
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confusion
bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, flabbergast, flabbergastation
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congress
INC
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connected
affiliated, allied, apposite, associated, comparative
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conscious
intentional deliberate, voluntary, wilful, intentional
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consciousness
awareness, witfulness
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consecrate
avow, behallow, bless, canonize, dedicate
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consequence
aftercome
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consideration
cogitation, contemplation, deliberation, mulling, musing
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consolation
alleviation, comfort, ease, liss, release
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consort
companion, escort
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conspicuous
attention-grabbing, eye-catching, flashy, glossy, grabby
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constable
police officer
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constabulary
constabular
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constant
unaltering, unvarying
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constantly
incessantly, nonstop, invariably, uniformly
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constitute
compose, form
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construct
something constructed from parts
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construction
building, construal
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consul
councillor, early modern councilmen of southern France and Catalonia
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consult
refer
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contagious
catching
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contain
curb, repress, restrain, restrict, stifle
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container
receptacle
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contaminated
adulterated, common, corrupted, mixed, polluted
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contamination
adulteration, defedation, defilement, pollution, sophistication
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contemporary
coetaneous, coeval, contemporaneous, coincident, cotemporal
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contemptuous
disdainful, dismissive, slighting
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contention
gainstrife, gainstriving, wrangling
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continental
characteristic of the style of continental Europe'
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continually
little by little, momently, at every turn, sequentially, incessantly
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continuance
remanence
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continue
carry on, crack on, go on with, keep, keep on
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continuity
continence, continuousness, flow, ongoingness, uninterruptedness
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continuous
amaranthine, solid, ceaseless, constant, continual
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contradict
contravene, disconfirm, deny, dispute, question
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contradictory
opposite
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contraption
contrivance, device, gadget, fandango, mechanism
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contrary
against the grain, at cross purposes, contradictory, contrariant, contrarious
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contrived
staged, insincere, factitious
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controller
comptroller
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controversial
contentious, contested
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convergence
convergency
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converse
chat, common, confab, confabulate, conversate
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conversely
vice versa
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conversion
development, metamorphosis, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation
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convert
develop, draw, evolve, metamorphize, metamorphose
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convertible
equivalent, interchangeable, synonymous, swappable
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convey
accompany, conduct, escort
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convict
adjudge, condemn, damn, deem, doom
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conviction
attaintment, condemnation, judgement, proscription
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cook
do
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cooperate
coact, coadjute, co-op, liaise, make common cause
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Copacabana
Copa
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copier
copyist, xeroxer
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copilot
first officer, second pilot, number two
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copulation
aphrodisia, carnal knowledge, coitus, coition, commerce
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