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6. Commiserate

  • express or feel sympathy or pity; sympathize
  • find a way around (an obstacle)
  • (of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way

7. Concurrent

  • existing, happening, or done at the same time
  • persuade (someone) to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery
  • self-enforced restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure

8. Corroborate

  • confirm or give support to (a statement, theory, or finding)
  • rebuke or reprimand severely
  • the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions

9. Dearth

  • the quality of being open and honest; frankness
  • a scarcity or lack of something
  • (of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way

10. Debilitate

  • make (someone) very weak and infirm
  • a noisy argument or disagreement, especially in public
  • an award or privilege granted as a special honour or as an acknowledgement of merit

11. Conformist

  • an award or privilege granted as a special honour or as an acknowledgement of merit
  • a person who conforms to accepted behaviour or established practices
  • excessive admiration or praise

12. Decadence

  • excessive admiration or praise
  • moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury
  • find a way around (an obstacle)

13. Cursory

  • having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone
  • hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed
  • expected or expecting to be the specified thing in the future

14. Compassion

  • sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others
  • the quality of being open and honest; frankness
  • excessive admiration or praise

15. Constituent

  • being a part of a whole
  • expected or expecting to be the specified thing in the future
  • having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone

16. Cordial

  • characterized by or causing cohesion
  • warm and friendly
  • (of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way

17. Congregation

  • a group of people assembled for religious worship
  • self-enforced restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure
  • the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions

18. Convergence

  • the process or state of converging
  • find a way around (an obstacle)
  • characterized by or causing cohesion