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Various

"The Illustrated London Reading Book"

_ astonishment; amazement; wonder
CO'NSTITUTE, _v.a._ give formal existence; produce; erect; appoint
another in an office
CONSTRU'CT, _v.a._ build; form; compile
CONSTRU'CTION, _s._ the act of building; structure; form of building
CONSTR'UCTIVE, _a._ by construction
CONSU'MPTION, _s._ the act of consuming; waste; a disease; a waste of
muscular flesh
CO'NTACT, _s._ touch; close union
CONTA'GIOUS, _a._ infectious; caught by approach
CONTA'IN, _v.a._ hold; comprehend; restrain
CONTE'MPLATE, _v.a._ study; meditate; muse; think studiously with long
attention
CONTEMPLA'TION, _s._ meditation; studious thought
CONTE'MPLATIVE, _a._ given to thought or study
CONTE'MPORARY, _s._ one who lives at the same time with another
CONTE'MPTIBLE, _a._ worthy of contempt, of scorn; neglected; despicable
CO'NTEST, _s._ dispute; difference; debate
CONTE'ST, _v.a._ to strive; to vie; to contend
CONTI'GUOUS, _a._ meeting so as to touch
CO'NTINENT, _s._ land not disjoined by the sea from other lands; that
which contains anything; one of the quarters of the globe
CONTI'NGENCY, _s._ accidental possibility
CONTI'NUE, _v.n._ remain in the same state; last; persevere
CONTRA'CT, _v.


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