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yet ready for grand opera.<br />

--v. 3 tutor, train, instruct, guide, direct, drill, prepare,<br />

prompt, school, exercise, Brit cram: Her lawyers have coached<br />

her in what to say in court.<br />

coagulate v. congeal, gel, jell, clot, curdle, set: The white of the egg<br />

had coagulated, but the yolk was still runny.<br />

coarse adj. 1 rough, uneven, scratchy, prickly, bristly; crude,<br />

rough-hewn, unfinished, unrefined: He has a three-day coarse<br />

growth of beard. The surface on the furniture is still too<br />

coarse. 2 rude, boorish, loutish, crude, ill-mannered,<br />

unpolished, rough, uncouth, impolite, uncivil, unrefined:<br />

Nigel's behaviour is coarse, and he spits when he talks. 3<br />

rude, indecent, improper, indelicate, obscene, lewd, vulgar,<br />

gross, smutty, dirty, filthy, foul, offensive, lascivious,<br />

ribald, bawdy; foul-mouthed: Don't use that kind of coarse<br />

language with me. 4 inferior, low-quality, second-rate, shoddy,<br />

tawdry, trashy; kitschy: That shop stocks only the coarsest<br />

merchandise.<br />

coast<br />

n. 1 seaside, seashore, shore, sea-coast, strand, beach,<br />

littoral, coastline, seaboard: Be careful of rocks if you sail<br />

near the coast.<br />

--v. 2 glide, skim, slide, sail: The children coasted down the<br />

hill on the toboggan.<br />

coat<br />

n. 1 overcoat, greatcoat; jacket, anorak, parka, Brit cagoule,<br />

Colloq Brit cag: Put on your coat, it's cold out. 2 coating,<br />

layer, covering, overlay; film: Two coats of paint ought to be<br />

enough. There was a coat of dust on everything.<br />

--v. 3 cover, paint, spread: We coated the floor with three<br />

layers of varnish.<br />

coax<br />

v. persuade, urge, wheedle, cajole, beguile, charm, inveigle,<br />

jolly, manipulate: She coaxed me into spending a weekend with<br />

her at Blackpool.<br />

cocky adj. overconfident, arrogant, haughty, conceited,<br />

self-important, egotistical, proud, vain, prideful, cocksure,

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