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| Date | Word  | Description |
| 20 Jun 2016 | contretemps | -
An inopportune or embarrassing situation or event; a hitch.
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| 1 Jan 2014 | contravene | - To act or be counter to; to violate.
- To oppose in argument; to contradict.
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| 18 Dec 2017 | contradistinction | Distinction by contrast; as, "sculpture in contradistinction to painting."
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| 31 Aug 2014 | contradistinction | -
Distinction by contrast; as, "sculpture in contradistinction to painting."
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| 9 Aug 2018 | contemporaneous | Originating, existing, or occurring at the same time.
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| 28 Nov 2016 | contemporaneous | -
Originating, existing, or occurring at the same time.
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| 23 Feb 2017 | contemn | -
To regard or treat with disdain or contempt; to scorn; to despise.
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| 21 Mar 2015 | constitutional | -
A walk taken for one's health. [Colloquial]
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| 21 Nov 2016 | conspectus | - A general sketch or survey of a subject.
- A synopsis; an outline.
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| 15 Nov 2018 | conspectus | 1. A general sketch or survey of a subject.
2. A synopsis; an outline.
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| 6 Aug 2015 | consanguineous | -
Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
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| 11 Nov 2017 | consanguineous | - Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
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| 6 Mar 2016 | connubial | -
Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.
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| 22 Apr 2018 | connubial | Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.
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| 29 Aug 2015 | congeries | -
A collection; an aggregation.
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| 20 Aug 2018 | congeries | A collection; an aggregation.
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| 26 Jun 2014 | confute | -
To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false.
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| 13 Jun 2018 | confute | To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false.
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| 1 Oct 2017 | confrere | - A fellow member of a fraternity or profession; a colleague; a comrade; an intimate associate.
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| 13 Dec 2015 | confrere | -
A fellow member of a fraternity or profession; a colleague; an intimate associate.
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| 5 Jan 2018 | confluence | 1. A flowing or coming together; junction.
2. The place where two rivers, streams, etc. meet.
3. A flocking or assemblage of a multitude in one place; a large collection or assemblage.
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| 5 Feb 2015 | confluence | - The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.
- Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a coming together of people; a concourse; an assemblage.
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| 4 Oct 2016 | conflate | - To bring together; to fuse together; to join or meld.
- To combine (as two readings of a text) into one whole.
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| 7 Nov 2018 | conflate | 1. To bring together; to fuse together; to join or meld.
2. To combine (as two readings of a text) into one whole.
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| 11 Dec 2018 | conflagration | 1. A large and destructive fire; a general burning.
2. Something like a conflagration; conflict; war.
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| 15 Dec 2015 | conflagration | - A large and destructive fire; a general burning.
- Something like a conflagration; conflict; war.
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| 22 May 2015 | confabulation | - Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
- (Psychology) A plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
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| 21 Mar 2014 | condign | -
Suitable to the fault or crime; deserved; adequate.
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| 3 Sep 2015 | concupiscence | -
Strong desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
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| 24 Nov 2017 | concupiscence | Strong desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
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| 24 May 2014 | concomitant | -
Accompanying; attendant; occurring or existing concurrently.
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| 23 Jul 2018 | concinnity | 1. Internal harmony or fitness in the adaptation of parts to a whole or to each other.
2. Studied elegance of design or arrangement -- used chiefly of literary style.
3. An instance of concinnity.
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| 4 Jun 2016 | concinnity | - Internal harmony or fitness in the adaptation of parts to a whole or to each other.
- Studied elegance of design or arrangement -- used chiefly of literary style.
- An instance of concinnity.
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| 14 May 2018 | concatenation | A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
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| 19 Aug 2014 | concatenation | -
A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
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| 5 Apr 2015 | compunction | -
A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.
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| 20 May 2018 | compunction | 1. Anxiety or deep unease proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain.
2. A sting of conscience or a twinge of uneasiness; a qualm; a scruple.
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| 9 Feb 2014 | comport | -
To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner.
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| 15 Nov 2014 | complement | - Something that fills up or completes.
- The quantity or number required to make up a whole or to make something complete.
- One of two parts that complete a whole or mutually complete each other; a counterpart.
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| 13 Apr 2018 | complaisant | Exhibiting a desire to please; obliging; compliant.
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| 4 Nov 2016 | complaisant | -
Exhibiting a desire to please; obliging; compliant.
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| 29 Jun 2018 | commodious | Comfortably or conveniently spacious; roomy; as, a commodious house.
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| 3 Mar 2016 | commodious | -
Comfortably or conveniently spacious; roomy; as, a commodious house.
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| 9 Apr 2017 | commination | - A denunciation.
- A threat of punishment.
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| 22 Mar 2016 | commensurate | - Equal in measure, extent, or duration.
- Corresponding in size or degree or extent; proportionate.
- Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.
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| 28 Oct 2017 | comity | 1. A state of mutual harmony, friendship, and respect, especially between or among nations or people; civility.
2. The courteous recognition by one nation of the laws and institutions of another.
3. The group of nations observing international comity.
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| 27 Dec 2014 | comity | - a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and
respect.
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| 2 Jan 2015 | comestible | -
Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent -- noun:
Something suitable to be eaten; -- usually in the plural.
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| 28 Feb 2016 | comely | - Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; good-looking.
- Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable.
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| 9 Mar 2014 | collude | -
To act in concert; to conspire; to plot.
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