Cc: Caish

Definition a pig Cock tale-Party Banter We will be serving our prized caish tonight, with a side of turnips, and a bottle of Tualatin Estate Pinot-Noir.  
 Literary Context

Let a man have a middling sized pit o cups again the winter a small caish to his rent an a handful o turf behind the doore an he defy the world

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Cc: Chiaroscuro

Defined

The arrangement of dark and light utilized in a pictorial representation.

Cocktail Party Banter

"Chiaroscuro Baby! Life is lived in the chiaroscuro; always in a blend of light and dark. You dig!?!"

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Followed as he followed it, with a skilful reticence, in a kind of socialchiaroscuro, it was still possible for the polite to call him a professional painter.

Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Cc: Crystalline

Definition: A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. Read More from Wikipedia.

Cocktail Party Banter: "That mountain lake ripples out all crystaline and like."

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Cc: Coward as Defined by Ambrose Bierce

Coward, n.: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce

Qq: Quote Mine

The practice of quoting out of context, sometimes referred to as "contextomy" or "quote mining", is a logical fallacy and type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning.^{[1] (Wikipedia's Definition)}

Cc: Captious

adj. 1. Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults: a captious scholar. 2. Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument: a captious question. [Middle English capcious, from Old French captieux, from Latin captisus, from capti, seizure, sophism, from captus, past participle of capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots.] captious·ly adv. captious·ness n.

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The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been that had beenhard for him to bear.

Emma by Austen, Jane

v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es

v.intr.

1.

a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge.

b. To come together from different directions; meet: The avenues converge at a central square.

2. To tend toward or achieve union or a common conclusion or result: In time, our views and our efforts converged.

3. Mathematics To approach a limit.

v.tr.

To cause to converge.

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[Late Latin convergere, to incline together : Latin com-, com- + Latin vergere, to incline; see wer-² in Indo-European roots.]

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They all converge upon the Nore, the warm speck of red upon the tones of drab and gray, with the distant shores running together towards the west, low and flat, like the sides of an enormous canal.The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph

CURMUDGEON: (noun)
one who abhors disingenuity and hypocrisy, and has the temerity to say so, often recasting unpleasant facts in a droll manner.

A Special Thanks to the Dick Martens - Curmudgeon in Residence

Cc: Conduit

n

1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a pipe or channel for carrying a fluid

2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a rigid tube or duct for carrying and protecting electrical wires or cables

3. an agency or means of access, communication, etc.

4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany a water-transporting element in a plant; a xylem vessel or a tracheid

5. a rare word for fountain

[from Old French, from Medieval Latin conductus channel, aqueduct, from Latin condūcere to lead, conduce]

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Cc: Coram Deo

"in the presence of God"; a phrase from Christian theology which summarizes the idea of Christians living in the presence of, under the authority of, and to the honor and glory of God