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Consortion
- - Fellowship; association; companionship.
Contention
- noun - a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"
- a point asserted as part of an argument
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place"
Contortion
- 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)
Contrition
- noun - sorrow
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
Convection
- 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
Convention
- 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
Conviction
- 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
Cooptation
- - The act of choosing; selection; choice.