1.) cameos.......ca-me-os.......a short, descriptive literary sketch that neatly explains someone
2.) catastrophe.....ca-tas-tro-phe.......an event causing great damage or suffering
3.) characteristic.....char-ac-ter-is-tic.......a feature or quality
4.) circumference.....cir-cum-fer-ence.......the closing boundary of a curved figure
5.) colleague.....col-league.......a person with whom one works
6.) confiscation.....con-fis-ca-tion.......the action taking someone's property
7.) considerable.....con-sid-er-a-ble.......large in size
8.) continuous.....con-tin-u-ous.......without interuption
9.) critique.....cri-tique.......detailed assessment
10.) deficiency.....def-ic-ien-cy.......lack or shortage
11.) deterrent.....det-er-rent.......a thing that discourages
12.) dilemma.....dil-lem-ma.......problem
13.) discrepancy.....dis-crep-an-cy.......lack of compatibility
14.) endeavor.....en-dea-vor.......try hard to achieve something
15.) abstain.....ab-stain.......to restrain ones self
16.) acoustics.....a-cous-tic.......relating to sound
17.) acquittal.....ac-quit-tal.......a judgment that a person is not guilty
18.) advantageous.....ad-van-tag-eous.......inventing
19.) amnesty.....am-nest-y.......official pardon
20.) anonymous.....an-on-y-mous.......you don't know who it is