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--v. 2 Also, cage up or in. confine, enclose, pen, impound,
shut up, or in, coop (up), imprison; restrict, restrain, hem in:
They keep the kitten caged like a wild animal. I don't like to
stay caged up in my office all day.
cajole v. wheedle, coax, beguile, jolly (along), cosy along, seduce,
inveigle, persuade, Colloq soft-soap, butter (up), stroke,
sweet-talk: Robert's wife always has to cajole him to go and
visit her mother.
cajolery n. wheedling, coaxing, blandishment, beguilement, jollying,
persuasion, seduction, inveigling, inveiglement, Colloq soft
soap, buttering-up, sweet talk: She uses cajolery rather than
threats to get what she wants.
cake n. 1 pastry, bun, Brit gateau: Right now, I should like to
have a glass of milk and a piece of chocolate cake. 2 piece,
chunk, bar, block, cube, lump, loaf, slab: Barbara gave me a
cake of fancy perfumed soap for my birthday.
--v. 3 harden, solidify, thicken, congeal, dry, coagulate,
encrust, consolidate: You can see where the paint has caked.
calamitous
adj. distressful, dire, tragic, disastrous, destructive, awful,
devastating, fatal, deadly, pernicious, cataclysmic,
catastrophic, ruinous, dreadful, terrible: They seemed unaware
of the calamitous consequences of what they were doing to the
environment.
calamity n. 1 disaster, destruction, ruin, catastrophe, cataclysm,
devastation, tragedy, misadventure, mischance, mishap: Calamity
befell the town when it was engulfed in a landslide. 2
distress, affliction, trouble, hardship, misery, tragedy,
misfortune, adversity, reverse, ruin, ruination, desolation,
wretchedness: So full is the world of calamity that every
source of pleasure is polluted.
calculate v. compute, reckon, add up, assess, evaluate, count, figure
(out), estimate, gauge, determine, ascertain, work out: Bradley
was able to calculate the velocity of light. They calculated
where the sun would come up at the equinox and built their