"C and D" Vocabulary

a sudden and complete disaster

• diatribe

• deluge

• debacle

• compulsory

a statistic characterizing human populations

• cadaverous

• demographic

• aberration

• desolate

a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating

• diatribe

• burgeon

• acquiesce

• conjecture

feel or express sympathy or compassion

• commiserate

• antipathy

• apathy

• dejected

invulnerable to fear or intimidation

• dystopian

• acrimonious

• arduous

• dauntless

relating to or involving a religious doctrine

• cacophonous

• diabolical

• dystopian

• dogmatic

a place where things merge or flow together

• confluence

• deluge

• conjecture

• burgeon

determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity

• capricious

• conjecture

• beguile

• acquiensce

providing no shelter or sustenance

• acclimate

• desolate

• bucolic

• benign

having an unpleasant sound

• concise

• diatribe

• behoove

• cacophonous