cache: hiding place
cadence: rhythmic rise and fall, beat
callous: unfeeling, hardened
callow: inexperienced, youthful
calumny: malicious misrepresentation
camaraderie: good fellowship
canard: exaggerated report
candor: frankness, open honestly
canny: shrewd, thrifty
cantankerous: irritable, ill-humored
canter: slow gallop
capacious: spacious
capitulate: surrender
caprice: whim
capricious: fickle, unpredictable
captious: faultfinding
careen: lurch, meander
carping: fault-finding, petty criticism
carrion: rotting flesh of a dead body
castigation: severe criticism, punishment
caustic: sarcastically biting, bumming
cavalcade: parade, procession
cede: surrender formally
celerity: rapidly, speed
censorious: critical
chaffing: joking, bantering
chary: restrained about giving
cherubic: innocent-looking, angelic
chicanery: deception
chide: scold
chimerical: imaginative, highly unrealistic
chisel: cheat or swindle
choleric: hot-tempered
chortle: chuckle with delight
churlish: boorish, rude
ciliated: having minute hairs
circumlocution: indirect or roundabout expression
circumspect: cautious, prudent
circumvent: baffle, outwit
clandestine: secret
clangor: resounding noise
cleft: split
clemency: disposition to be lenient
coalesce: fuse, combine
coeval: contemporary
cogent: convincing
cogitate: think over
coin: invent or fabricate
collate: arrange in order
collation: a light meal
colloquial: informal, common speech
collusion: conspiring in a fraudulent
combustible: easily burned
comely: attractive, agreeable
comity: courtesy, civility
commensurate: equal in extent
commodious: comfortable, spacious | compelling: irresistible in effect
compensatory: making up for, repaying
complacency: smugness, self- satisfaction
compliance: readiness to yield
complicity: involvement, participation
compunction: remorse
concatenate: link as in a chain
concede: yield, admit
concerted: done together, combined
conclave: private meeting, gathering
concord: harmony
condign: deservedly severe
conducive: contributive, helpful
confidant: trusted friend
confluence: crowd, flowing together
confound: puzzle, confuse
congeal: coagulate, freeze, clot
congenial: pleasant, friendly
conjecture: guess, surmise
conscientious: careful, scrupulous
consecrate: dedicate, sanctify
consign: set apart, entrust
console: give comfort
consonance: agreement, harmony
consort: wife or husband
consort: associate with
constituent: element, component
construe: interpret, explain
consummate: complete
contempt: disdain, scorn
contentious: quarrelsome
continence: self-restraint
contraband: smuggling, smuggled goods
contrived: forced, not spontaneous
conundrum: difficult problem, riddle
copious: plentiful
corollary: accompaniment
corpulent: very fat
corroborate: support, confirm
corrugated: ridged, wrinkled
countenance: tolerate, approve
covetous: eagerly desirous of
cozen: hoodwink, swindle
cryptic: secret, hidden
cull: reject, pick out
culpable: guilty, deserving blame
cumbersome: hard to manage
cupidity: greed |
