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| cabal | persons secretly united for some purpose | |
| cabalism | superstitious devotion to one's religion | |
| cadaverous | resembling a corpse | |
| cadenza | musical embellishment prepared for solo (voice or instrument) | |
| caitiff | cowardly | |
| cajolery | delusive speech (cajole: dupe) | |
| calculus | hard pebble-like bump on body | |
| callosity | state of being insensitive | (revised) |
| callow | without experience of the world (green) | |
| calumny | slander | |
| came | led frame between strained-glass window pains | |
| cameo | engraving (usually in stone) | |
| candor | frankness, outspokenness | |
| canto | one division of an extended poem | |
| cantonment | part of a town where troops dwell | |
| capacious | roomy | |
| captious | hypercritical | |
| caret | a symbol (^) showing where words should be added into a sentence | |
| carouse | drinking and being boisterous | |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh | |
| caste | an artificial division of society | |
| castigate | to punish | |
| caustic | sarcastic and severe | |
| cede | to pass title to | |
| cession | the giving up of (as of possessions or rights) | |
| chameleon | changeable appearance | |
| chancery | a court of equity (distinguished from common-law court) | |
| chateau | a castle or manner-house | |
| chattel | an article of personal property | |
| chiffon | thin gauze of trimmings of an evening dress | |
| choleric | easily provoked to anger | |
| chromatic | full of color | |
| chronometer | most precise clock | |
| circumlocution | a round-about reference | |
| circumscribe | to confine within bounds | |
| clairvoyance | intuitive perception | |
| clamorous | insistent, importunant | |
| clandestine | secret for the purpose of deception or subversion | |
| clangor | clanking or ringing (as of arms, chains, or bells) | |
| clarion | small bugle | |
| clemency | mercy | |
| codicil | the part of the will which adds to or revokes something | |
| cogent | appealing strongly to the reason or conscience | |
| cognizant | taking notice | |
| collier | one who works in a coal mine | |
| colloquy | conversation | |
| comestible | fit to be eaten | |
| commingle | to blend | |
| commissariat | part of army charged with providing food and water | |
| complaisance | politeness, agreeableness (not to be confused with with 'complacence') | |
| complicity | participation in evil or with a wrong-doer | |
| comport | to conduct or behave oneself | |
| compunction | remorseful feeling | |
| conciliate | to obtain the friendship of | |
| conciliatory | tending to reconcile | |
| conduit | passageway | |
| confectionery | the candy sold by the confectioner | |
| conferee | one bestowed upon | |
| confessor | a spiritual advisor | |
| conflagration | a great fire of buildings or trees | |
| confluence | the place where streams meet | |
| confluent | a stream that meets with another | |
| congenial | having kindred tastes or character | |
| coniferous | cone-bearing trees | |
| conjugate | joined together in pairs | |
| connive | to be in collusion | |
| connubial | pertaining to marriage | |
| consanguineous | descending from the same ancestor (or parent) | |
| conscript | to force into military service | |
| consonant | being in agreement | |
| consort | a companion or associate | |
| conspicuous | clearly visible | |
| constable | an officer whose duty is to maintain peace | |
| contagion | the communication of disease from person to person | |
| contiguity | proximity | |
| contiguous | touching or joining at the edge | |
| continence | self-restraint | |
| contraband | trade forbidden by law | |
| contraposition | a placing opposite of | |
| contravene | to prevent or obstruct the operation of | |
| contrivance | contriving | |
| contumacious | rebellious | |
| contumacy | contemptuous disregard for authority | |
| contuse | to bruise by a blow | |
| contusion | a bruise | |
| convalesce | to recover from a sickness | |
| conversant | thoroughly informed | |
| convex | curvature (as of the earth) | |
| convivial | devoted to feasting | |
| convolution | a winding motion (v. convolve) | |
| copious | plenteous | |
| coquette | a flirt | |
| cornice | ornamental molding around ceiling | |
| cornucopia | the horn of plenty (symbolizing peace and prosperity) | |
| corollary | an obvious proposition (following another) needing little demonstration | |
| coronet | inferior crown | |
| corporeal | material, physical | |
| corpulent | obese | |
| corpuscle | a minute particle | |
| corrigible | capable of reformation | |
| cosmogony | a doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe | |
| cosmopolitan | common to all the world | |
| countervail | to offset | |
| counting-house | a house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping or correspondence, etc. | |
| courser | a fleet, spirited horse | |
| covey | a flock of quails or partridges | |
| coxswain | one who steers a rowboat or one under the captain | |
| crag | a rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge | |
| crass | without refinement, delicacy or sensitivity; gross, obtuse, stupid | (revised) |
| credulous | easily deceived | |
| crevasse | a crevice in ice | |
| crockery | earthenware made from baked clay | |
| crustacean | a division of arthropods containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc. | |
| crustaceous | having a crust-like shell | |
| cudgel | a short, thick stick used as a club | |
| cull | to pick or sort out from the rest | |
| culvert | canal | |
| cupidity | excessive desire, especially for wealth; avarice | |
| curio | a piece of bric-a-brac | |
| curtail | to cut off or cut short | |
| cycloid | like a circle | |
| cygnet | a young swan | |
| cynicism | contempt for the beliefs and values of others | |
| cynosure | that to which general interest or attention is directed |
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