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C candid, sincere, familiar, and ingenuous captious, petulant, peevish, and splenetic [captious = point out trivial faults] cautious, discreet, considerate, and provident certain, confident, positive, and unquestionable chagrin, vexation, irritation, and mortification character, disposition, temperament, and reputation charm, fascinate, bewitch, and captivate cheap, inexpensive, inferior, and common cheer, animate, vivify, and exhilarate [vivify = bring life to] chiefly, particularly, principally, and especially childhood, youth, manhood, and age circumstance, condition, environment, and surroundings claim, grab, trick, and compel clean, fastidious, frugal, and refined clear, distinct, obvious, and intelligible clumsy, crawling, snobbish, and comfort-loving coarse, gross, offensive, and nauseous coax, flatter, wheedle, and persuade cogitate, contemplate, meditate, and ponder cold, frigid, unfeeling, and stoical commanding, authoritative, imperative, and peremptory [peremptory = ending all debate or action] compassion, goodwill, admiration, and enthusiasm confirm, establish, sustain, and strengthen conform, submit, obey, and satisfy confuse, distort, involve, and misinterpret consistent, congruous, firm, and harmonious cool, collected, calm, and self-possessed copious, commanding, sonorous, and emotional cowardly, timid, shrinking, and timorous crazy, absurd, nonsensical, and preposterous crude, rough, jagged, and pitiless Calm as the night Calm like a flowing river Calm like a mountain brooding o'er the sea Calmly dropping care like a mantle from her shoulders Cast thy voice abroad like thunder Charm upon charm in her was packed, like rose-leaves in a costly vase Chaste as the icicle Cheeks as soft as July peaches Chill breath of winter Choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity Cities scattered over the world like ant-hills Cities that rise and sink like bubbles Clear and definite like the glance of a child or the voice of a girl Clear as a forest pool Clear as crystal Clenched little hands like rumpled roses, dimpled and dear Cloud-like that island hung afar Clouds like the petals of a rose Cloudy mirror of opinion Cold and hard as steel Cold as the white rose waking at daybreak Cold, glittering monotony like frosting around a cake Collapsed like a concertina Colored like a fairy tale Companionless as the last cloud of an expiring storm whose thunder is its knell Consecration that like a golden thread runs through the warp and woof of one's life [warp = lengthwise threads] [woof = crosswise threads] Constant as gliding waters Contending like ants for little molehill realms Continuous as the stars that shine Cowslips, like chance-found gold Creeds like robes are laid aside Creeping like a snail, unwillingly to school Cruel as death Curious as a lynx Cuts into the matter as with a pen of fire |
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A Dictionary of Useful Phrases
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Here is a collection of excellent phrases and word combinations that you can use to add spice to your writings and speech. |
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