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Camaraderie: 1. Spirit of friendly familiarity and goodwill between comrades

Caring: 1. Feel concern or interest 2. Provide care for 3. Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of 4. Be concerned with 5. Having or displaying warmth or affection 6. Feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others

Carry: 1. Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body 2. Have with oneself; have on one's person 3. Have with oneself; have on one's person 4. Serve as a means for expressing something 5. Bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure, or responsibility of 6. Support or hold in a certain manner 7. Contain or hold; have within 8. Extend beyond reasonable limits 9. Continue or extend 10. Be necessarily associated with or result in or involve

Catastrophe: 1. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune 2. A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune 3. A sudden violent change in the earth's surface

Certified: 1. Provide evidence for; stand as proof of 2. Guarantee payment on; of checks 3. Authorize officially 4. Guarantee as meeting a certain standard 5. Declare legally insane 6. Endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements 7. Having quality or payment or delivery guaranteed 8. Fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) 9. Holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill

Challenge: 1. A demanding or stimulating situation 2. A call to engage in a contest or fight 3. Questioning a statement and demanding an explanation 4. A formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror 5. A demand by a sentry for a password or identification 6. Take exception to 7. Issue a challenge to 8. Ask for identification 9. Raise a formal objection in a court of law. 10. Is anything that dares us to succeed. (Just For Today Pg.153)

Change: 1. An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another 2. A relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event 3. The result of alteration or modification 4. Make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence 5. Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another 6. Means doing things differently. (Just For Today Pg.274) 7. Is acquired by working the Twelve Steps. (Just For Today Pg.371)

Chaos: 1. A state of extreme confusion and disorder

Character Defects: 1. Are basic human traits that have been distorted out of proportion by our self-centeredness, causing enormous pain to us and those around us. (It Works How & Why Pg.62-63 & Step Working Guides Pg.57) 2. Are indicators of our basic nature. (Step Working Guides Pg.57)

Character: 1. A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something 2. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions

Characteristic: 1.A prominent aspect of something 2. A distinguishing quality 3. Typical or distinctive

Choice: 1. The person or thing chosen or selected 2. The act of choosing or selecting 3. An alternative action 4. Of superior grade 5. Appealing to refined taste

Claim: 1.. Assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing 2. Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to 3. Ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example 4. Lay claim to; as of an idea 5. Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

Claims: 1. An assertion of a right (as to money or property) 2. An assertion that something is true or factual 3. Demand for something as rightful or due 4. An informal right to something 5. An established or recognized right 6. A demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"

Clean: 1. Make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from 2. Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits, as of chickens or fruit 3. Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing 4. Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely 5. Free from impurities 6. Not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination 7. Morally pure 8. Not carrying concealed weapons 9. Free of drugs 10. Starts with not using (Just For Today Pg.169) 11. Comes from admitting the truth about our addiction rather than hiding or denying our disease. (Just For Today Pg.169)

Cling: 1. Come or be in close contact with 2. To remain emotionally or intellectually attached 3. Hold on tightly or tenaciously

Clouds: 1. Suspicion affecting your reputation 2. Make less visible or unclear 3. Make gloomy or depressed 4. Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

Coerce: 1. To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

Collective: 1. Members of a cooperative enterprise 2. Done by or characteristic of individuals acting together 3. Forming a whole or aggregate 4. Set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government

Collectively: 1. In conjunction with; combined

Combination: 1. A collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities 2. An occurrence that results in things being combined 3. A sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock 4. A group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose 5. An alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) 6. The act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order 7. The act of combining things

Comfortable: 1. Providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief 2. Free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind 3. More than adequate 4. Sufficient to provide comfort 5. In fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich

Commitment: 1. The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose 2. The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action 3. A message that makes a pledge 4. An engagement by contract involving financial or business obligations 5. A decision supported by our belief in N.A. as a way of life. (It Works How & Why Pg.131)

Common: 1. Of no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual 2. shared by two or more parties 3. Of or associated with the great masses of people 3. Of low or inferior quality or value 4. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste 5. To be expected; standard

Communicate: 1. Let know; pass information on (to someone) 2. Transmit thoughts or feelings 3. Transfer or deliver to another, as of information

Communication: 1. The activity of communicating 2. Something that is communicated between people or groups 3. A connection allowing access between persons or places 4. Is a two-way street (It Works How & Why Pg.192 )

Compassion: 1. A deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering 2. The humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

Compel: 1. Force or compel somebody to do something 2. Make someone do something

Compile: 1. Get together 2. Put together out of existing material

Complacency: 1. The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself 2. Contended self-satisfaction 3. Lack of concern

Complement: 1. A word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction 2. A complete number or quantity 3. Something added to complete or make perfect 4. Either of two parts that mutually complete each other 5. Make complementary to

Complex: 1. A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts 2. a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior 3. A whole building made up of interconnected or related structures 4. Complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts

Comprehend: 1. Get the meaning of something 2. To become aware of through the senses

Compromising: 1. Settle by concession 2. Expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute 3. Vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion

Compulsion: 1. An urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid 2. The irrational impulse to continue using drugs, no matter what happens as a result. We just can’t stop (It Works How & Why Pg.6) 3. Once having started the process with one fix, one pill, or one drink we cannot stop through our own power of will (Basic Text Pg.84) 4. Is using without the ability to stop. (Behind The Walls Pg.7)

Compulsive: 1. A person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things 2. Strongly motivated to succeed

Concede: 1. Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another 2. Acknowledge defeat

Conceivable: 1. Within the bounds of what may be conceived within the framework of nature 2. Possible to conceive or imagine

Concentrate: 1. The desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore 2. A concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water 3. A concentrated example 4. Make dense or denser; of the solvent of a solution 5. Focus one's attention on something 6. Make central 7. Make more concise 8. Make more concise 9. Draw together or meet in one common center 10. Compress or concentrate 11. Be cooked until very little is left; as of sauces 12. Cook until very little liquid is left, as of sauces

Concept: 1. An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

Conciliation: 1. The act of placating

Conclusion: 1. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration 2. An intuitive assumption 3. The concluding time 4. An event whose occurrence ends something 5. The act of ending something 6. A final settlement 7. The act of making up your mind about something

Condemn: 1. Express strong disapproval of 2. Declare or judge unfit 3. Compel or force into a particular state or activity 4. Demonstrate the guilt of (someone)

Condition: 1. A state at a particular time 2. A mode of being or form of existence of a person or things 3. An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else 4. A statement of what is required as part of an agreement 5. The state of (good) health--especially in the phrases "in condition" or "in shape" or "out of condition" or "out of shape" 6. Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision 7. Train by instruction and practice; esp. to teach self-control 8. Put into a better state

Conduct: 1. Manner of acting or conducting oneself 2. Behavioral attributes 3. Direct the course of; manage or control 4. Lead 5. Behave in a certain manner 6. Take somebody somewhere 7. Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission, as of sounds or images

Conducting: 1. Direct the course of; manage or control 2. Behave in a certain manner

Confidence: 1. Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities 2. A feeling of trust (in someone or something) 3. A state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable 4. A secret that is confided or entrusted to another

Confidentiality: 1. The state of being secret 2. Discretion in keeping secret information

Confront: 1. Oppose in hostility 2. Come to grips with face (something unpleasant) head on 3. Present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize 4. Be face to face with

Confused: 1. Mistake one thing for another 2. perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly 3. Cause to feel embarrassment 4. Assemble without order or sense 5. Make unclear or incomprehensible

Confusion: 1. Disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably 2. A mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior 3. feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused 4. A mistake that results from taking one thing to be another

Connected: 1. Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces 2. Make a logical or causal connection 3. Be or become joined or united or linked 4. Join by means of communication equipment 5. Land on or hit solidly 6. Be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation 7. Establish a rapport or relationship 8. Establish communication with someone 9. Establish communication with someone 10. Plug into an outlet, as of electrical appliances 11. Being joined in close association 12. Joined or linked together 13. Associated with or accompanying 14. Plugged in

Conscientious: 1. Characterized by extreme care and great effort 2. Guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong

Conscious: 1. Yield (to); give satisfaction to 2. Knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts 3. Showing realization or recognition or something; followed by "of" 4. A reflection of our relationship with a Higher Power (It Works How & Why Pg.135)

Consensus: 1. Agreement of the majority in sentiment or belief 2.

Consequence: 1. A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon 2. The outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual 3. Having important effects or influence

Consistent: 1. Capable of being reproduced 2. The same throughout in structure or composition

Consult: 1. Get or ask advice from 2. Seek information from 3. When planning or deciding something 4. Have a conference in order to talk something over 5. Advise professionally; work as a consultant 6. Advise professionally

Contact: 1. Close interaction 2. The act of touching physically 3. The state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity 4. The physical coming together of two or more things 5. A person who is in a position to give you special assistance 6. A channel for communication between groups 7. A junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact 8. A communicative interaction 9. Be in communication with, establish communication with

Contemplating:1. Look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought 2. Consider as a possibility 3. Think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes 4. Think about at length and in depth

Contentment: 1. Happiness with one's situation in life

Continue: 1. Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last 2. Move ahead; travel onward 3. Allow to remain in a place or position 4. Carry forward 5. Continue after an interruption 6. Continue in a place, position, or situation. 6. Exist over a prolonged period of time

Continuing to take a personal inventory: 1. Means that we form a habit of looking at ourselves, our actions our attitudes and our relationships on a regular basis. (Basic Text Pg.41 & Just For Today Pg.18 & Just For Today Pg.220)

Contradict: 1. Deny the truth of 2. Be resistant to 3. Prove negative; show to be false

Contradiction: 1. Opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas 2. a statement that is necessarily false 3. The speech act of contradicting someone

contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false 4. Very opposed in nature or character or purpose 5. Resistant to guidance or discipline

Contrary: 1. A relation of direct opposition 2. Exact opposition 3. Two propositions are

Contribute: 1. Of a quality, as in 2. Be conducive to 3. provide

Control: 1. Power to direct or determine 2. A relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another 3. (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc 4. The state that exists when one person or group has power over another 5. Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity 6. Exercise authoritative control or power over 7. Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits 8. Handle and cause to function 9. Influence skillfully to one's advantage 10. Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something 11. Have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of

Controversy: 1. A dispute where there is strong disagreement

Convey: 1. Make known; pass on, of information 2. Serve as a means for expressing something 3. Transfer or deliver to another, as of information 4. Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission, as of sounds or images 5. Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere 6. Bring or fetch

Convince: 1. Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something

Cooperation: 1. Joint operation or action 2.The practice of cooperating

Cope: 1. Come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas."

Core: 1. A small group of indispensable persons or things 2. he choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience 3. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

Courage: 1. A quality of spirit that enables you to face danger of pain without showing fear 2. Is not the absence of fear, but rather the willingness to walk through it. (Just For Today Pg.79) 3. When we face and deal with anything that we think of as difficult, dangerous, or painful, rather than withdrawal from it; Being brave; having a purpose; having spirit; Is an attitude, one of perseverance. (Just For Today Pg.316)

Creative: 1. Having the ability or power to create 2. Promoting construction or creation 3. Having the power to bring into being

Credentials: 1. A document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts

Creed: 1. Any system of principles or beliefs 2. The body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group

Critical: 1. Marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws 2. Characterized by careful evaluation and judgment 3. Urgently needed; absolutely necessary 4. Forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis 5. Being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency 6. Of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism

Crucial: 1. Of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis 2. Of the greatest importance 3. Having the power or quality of deciding

Cult: 1. Adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices 2. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal 3. A system of religious beliefs and rituals

Cultivate: 1. Foster the growth of 2. Prepare for crops, of soil 3. Train to be discriminative; as of taste or judgment 4. Adapt to the environment

Cure: 1. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain 2. Provide a cure for, make healthy again