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choice |
delicate; of very fine quality |
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choir |
group of people who sing together (esp. during religious services); place for choir |
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choleric |
hot-tempered; bad-tempered; irritable; easily angered; CF. cholera |
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chore |
daily domestic task (such as cleaning, cooking, and shopping); unpleasant task |
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choreography |
art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances |
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chortle |
chuckle with delight; N. |
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chorus |
phrase repeated throughout a song or poem |
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chronic |
long established as a disease |
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chronicle |
report; record (in chronological order) |
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chuckle |
laugh quietly |
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churlish |
boorish; rude; N. churl: boor; yahoo |
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ciliated |
having minute hairs; CF. cilium; CF. cilia: eyelash |
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cipher |
nonentity; worthless person or thing; zero; secret code; V. |
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circlet |
small ring; band of gold, silver, jewel, etc. (worn on the head, arms, or neck as decoration) |
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circuit |
closed circular line around an area; circumference; regularly repeated journey from place to place |
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circuitous |
roundabout |
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circumlocution |
indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly) |
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circumscribe |
limit; confine; draw a line around |
