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Contrarious
- adjective - difficult to deal with
Contrasting
- verb - put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student"
- strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
- to show differences when compared; be different; "the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities"
Contrastive
- adjective - of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
- strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
- syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"
Contratenor
- - Counter tenor; contralto.
Contravened
- verb - deny the truth of
- go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afoul of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules"
Contravenes
- verb - deny the truth of
- go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afoul of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules"
Contrayerva
- - A species of Dorstenia (Dorstenia Contrayerva), a South American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.
Contredanse
- noun - a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
- perform a contradance
Contretemps
- noun - an awkward clash; "he tried to smooth over his contretemps with the policeman"