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Contentious
- adjective - inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit"
- involving or likely to cause controversy; "a central and contentious element of the book"- Tim W.Ferfuson
Contortions
- noun - a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions"
- the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)
Contritions
- noun - sorrow
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
Convections
- noun - (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere
- the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion
Conventions
- noun - (diplomacy) an international agreement
- a large formal assembly; "political convention"
- orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
- the act of convening
Convictions
- noun - (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise"
- an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence
Copulations
- noun - the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur
Coronations
- noun - the ceremony of installing a new monarch
Corrections
- noun - a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases; "market runups are invariably followed by a correction"
- a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- a rebuke for making a mistake
- something substituted for an error
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- the act of punishing; "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received"
- the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders; "for a career in corrections turn to the web site of the New Jersey Department of Corrections"
- the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
- treatment of a specific defect; "the correction of his vision with eye glasses"
Corruptions
- noun - decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
- in a state of progressive putrefaction
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"