Vocabulary : Contumacy to Conus

Contumacy : Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority. ;; A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.
Contumelious : Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. ;; Shameful; disgraceful.
Contumely : Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.
Contuse : To beat, pound, or together. ;; To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.
Contused : of Contuse

Contusing : of Contuse
Contusion : The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised. ;; A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.
Conundrum : A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. ;; A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.
Conure : An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.
Conus : A cone. ;; A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4.

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