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cacique
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noun
  1. Originally a tribal chief in the Spanish West Indies.
  2. A local political leader in Latin America.
  3. Any of a number of tropical blackbirds from Central America and South America, family Icteridae.
calumet
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noun
  1. a clay tobacco-pipe used by American Indians, especially as a symbol of truce or peace
  • 1922: THE CALUMET OF PEACE. He offered a cigarette to the professor and took one himself. " James Joyce, Ulysses
cannibal
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noun
  1. An organism which eats others of its own species.
cannibalism
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noun
  1. The act of eating another of one's own species.
chieftain
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noun
  1. A leader of a clan or tribe.
  2. A leader of a group, e.g. a robbers' chieftain.
  3. (capitalized) The name of a British military tank.
Chiricahua
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proper noun
  1. A Native American tribe.
  2. The language these people speak.
concubine
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noun
  1. A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.
  2. A slave-girl for sexual service prominent in all ancient cultures.
  3. Signifies a relationship where the male is the dominant partner, socially and economically
  4. A woman attached to a man solely for reproduction, and who cares for the resulting children without any romantic relationship
  1. (esp. formerly in Muslim societies) a woman residing in a harem and kept, as by a sultan, for sexual purposes. <ref>Random House Unabridged Dictionary</ref>
conjurer
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noun
  1. One who conjures, a magician.
1594 His incivility confirms no less. Good Doctor Pinch, you are a ; Establish him in his true sense again, And I will please you what you will demand. " Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors, Act 4, Scene 4.
  1. One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
1893 The man is by trade a and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. " Arthur Conan Doyle, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=275137210&tag=Doyle,+Arthur+Conan:+The+Adventure+of+the+Crooked+Man,+1893&query=conjurer&id=DoyCroo "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
coup
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noun
  1. A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act; a triumph.
  2. A coup d'état.
  3. By extension, a takeover of one group by another.
cousin
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noun
  1. The son or daughter of a person"s uncle or aunt
  2. Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant; one more distantly related than an aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, etc.
cultural anthropology
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noun
  1. One of four commonly recognized fields of anthropology.
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