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cabal: n. A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.
cabalism: n. Superstitious devotion to one's religion.
cabinet: n. The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
cacophony: n. A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
cadaverous: adj. Resembling a corpse.
cadence: n. Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.
cadenza: n. An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
caitiff: adj. Cowardly.
cajole: v. To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.
cajolery: n. Delusive speech.
calculable: adj. That may be estimated by reckoning.
calculus: n. A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
callosity: n. The state of being hard and insensible.
callow: adj. Without experience of the world.
calorie: n. Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade.
calumny: n. Slander.
Calvary: n. The place where Christ was crucified.
Calvinism: n. The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin.
Calvinize: v. To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism.
came: n. A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
cameo: n. Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
campaign: n. A complete series of connected military operations.
Canaanite: n. A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.
canary: adj. Of a bright but delicate yellow.
candid: adj. Straightforward.
candor: n. The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
canine: adj. Characteristic of a dog.
canon: n. Any rule or law.
cant: v. To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
cantata: n. A choral composition.
canto: n. One of the divisions of an extended poem.
cantonment: n. The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
capacious: adj. Roomy.
capillary: n. A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
capitulate: v. To surrender or stipulate terms.
caprice: n. A whim.
caption: n. A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc.
captious: adj. Hypercritical.
captivate: v. To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
carcass: n. The dead body of an animal.
cardiac: adj. Pertaining to the heart.
cardinal: adj. Of prime or special importance.
caret: n. A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
caricature: n. a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted.
carnage: n. Massacre.
carnal: adj. Sensual.
carnivorous: adj. Eating or living on flesh.
carouse: v. To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
carrion: n. Dead and putrefying flesh.
cartilage: n. An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
cartridge: n. A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
caste: n. The division of society on artificial grounds.
castigate: v. To punish.
casual: adj. Accidental, by chance.
casualty: n. A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
cataclysm: n. Any overwhelming flood of water.
cataract: n. Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness.
catastrophe: n. Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity.
cathode: n. The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
Catholicism: n. The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church.
catholicity: n. Universal prevalence or acceptance.
cat-o-nine-tails: n. An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
caucus: n. A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
causal: adj. Indicating or expressing a cause.
caustic: adj. Sarcastic and severe.
cauterize: v. To burn or sear as with a heated iron.
cede: v. To pass title to.
censor: n. An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication.
censorious: adj. Judging severely or harshly.
census: n. An official numbering of the people of a country or district.
centenary: adj. Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years.
centiliter: n. A hundredth of a liter.
centimeter: n. A length of one hundredth of a meter.
centurion: n. A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army.
cereal: adj. Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds.
ceremonial: adj. Characterized by outward form or ceremony.
ceremonious: adj. Observant of ritual.
cessation: n. Discontinuance, as of action or motion.
cession: n. Surrender, as of possessions or rights.
chagrin: n. Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
chameleon: adj. Changeable in appearance.
chancery: n. A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
chaos: n. Any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion.
characteristic: n. A distinctive feature.
characterize: v. To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities.
charlatan: n. A quack.
chasm: n. A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface.
chasten: v. To purify by affliction.
chastise: v. To subject to punitive measures.
chastity: n. Sexual or moral purity.
chateau: n. A castle or manor-house.
chattel: n. Any article of personal property.
check: v. To hold back.
chiffon: n. A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
chivalry: n. The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
cholera: n. An acute epidemic disease.
choleric: adj. Easily provoked to anger.
choral: adj. Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
Christ: n. A title of Jesus
christen: v. To name in baptism.
Christendom: n. That part of the world where Christianity is generally professed.
chromatic: adj. Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
chronology: n. The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events.
chronometer: n. A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.
cipher: v. To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing)
circulate: v. To disseminate.
circumference: n. The boundary-line of a circle.
circumlocution: n. Indirect or roundabout expression.
circumnavigate: v. To sail quite around.
circumscribe: v. To confine within bounds.
circumspect: adj. Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration.
citadel: n. Any strong fortress.
cite: v. To refer to specifically.
claimant: n. One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
clairvoyance: n. Intuitive sagacity or perception.
clamorous: adj. Urgent in complaint or demand.
clan: n. A tribe.
clandestine: adj. Surreptitious.
clangor: n. Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor.
clarify: v. To render intelligible.
clarion: n. A small shrill trumpet or bugle.
classify: v. To arrange in a class or classes on the basis of observed resemblance's and differences.
clearance: n. A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.
clemency: n. Mercy.
clement: adj. Compassionate.
close-hauled: adj. Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
clothier: n. One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
clumsy: adj. Awkward of movement.
coagulate: v. To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment.
coagulant: adj. Producing coagulation.
coalescence: n. The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
coalition: n. Combination in a body or mass.
coddle: v. To treat as a baby or an invalid.
codicil: n. A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
coerce: v. To force.
coercion: n. Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
coercive: adj. Serving or tending to force.
cogent: adj. Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience.
cognate: adj. Akin.
cognizant: adj. Taking notice.
cohere: v. To stick together.
cohesion: n. Consistency.
cohesive: adj. Having the property of consistency.
coincide: v. To correspond.
coincidence: n. A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident.
coincident: adj. Taking place at the same time.
collaborate: v. To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits.
collapse: v. To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail.
collapsible: adj. That may or can collapse.
colleague: n. An associate in professional employment.
collective: adj. Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
collector: n. One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
collegian: n. A college student.
collide: v. To meet and strike violently.
collier: n. One who works in a coal-mine.
collision: n. Violent contact.
colloquial: adj. Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
colloquialism: n. Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation.
colloquy: n. Conversation.
collusion: n. A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
colossus: n. Any strikingly great person or object.
comely: adj. Handsome.
comestible: adj. Fit to be eaten.
comical: adj. Funny.
commemorate: v. To serve as a remembrance of.
commentary: n. A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work.
commingle: v. To blend.
commissariat: n. The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
commission: v. To empower.
commitment: n. The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping.
committal: n. The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being
commodity: n. Something that is bought and sold.
commotion: n. A disturbance or violent agitation.
commute: v. To put something, especially something less severe, in place of.
comparable: adj. Fit to be compared.
comparative: adj. Relative.
comparison: n. Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
compensate: v. To remunerate.
competence: n. Adequate qualification or capacity.
competent: adj. Qualified.
competitive: adj. characterized by rivalry.
competitor: n. A rival.
complacence: n. Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings.
complacent: adj. Pleased or satisfied with oneself.
complaisance: n. Politeness.
complaisant: adj. Agreeable.
complement: v. To make complete.
complex: adj. Complicated.
compliant: adj. Yielding.
complicate: v. To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with.
complication: n. An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner.
complicity: n. Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer.
compliment: v. To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise.
component: n. A constituent element or part.
comport: v. To conduct or behave (oneself).
composure: n. Calmness.
comprehensible: adj. Intelligible.
comprehension: n. Ability to know.
comprehensive: adj. Large in scope or content.
compress: v. To press together or into smaller space.
compressible: adj. Capable of being pressed into smaller compass.
compression: n. Constraint, as by force or authority.
comprise: v. To consist of.
compulsion: n. Coercion.
compulsory: adj. Forced.
compunction: n. Remorseful feeling.
compute: v. To ascertain by mathematical calculation.
concede: v. To surrender.
conceit: n. Self-flattering opinion.
conceive: v. To form an idea, mental image or thought of.
concerto: n. A musical composition.
concession: n. Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim.
conciliate: v. To obtain the friendship of.
conciliatory: adj. Tending to reconcile.
conclusive: adj. Sufficient to convince or decide.
concord: n. Harmony.
concordance: n. Harmony.
concur: v. To agree.
concurrence: n. Agreement.
concurrent: adj. Occurring or acting together.
concussion: n. A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
condensation: n. The act or process of making dense or denser.
condense: v. To abridge.
condescend: v. To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors.
condolence: n. Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune.
conduce: v. To bring about.
conducive: adj. Contributing to an end.
conductible: adj. Capable of being conducted or transmitted.
conduit: n. A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid.
confectionery: n. The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
confederacy: n. A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid.
confederate: n. One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement.
confer: v. To bestow.
conferee: n. A person with whom another confers.
confessor: n. A spiritual advisor.
confidant: n. One to whom secrets are entrusted.
confide: v. To reveal in trust or confidence.
confidence: n. The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another.
confident: adj. Assured.
confinement: n. Restriction within limits or boundaries.
confiscate: v. To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury.
conflagration: n. A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like.
confluence: n. The place where streams meet.
confluent: n. A stream that unites with another.
conformance: n. The act or state or conforming.
conformable: adj. Harmonious.
conformation: n. General structure, form, or outline.
conformity: n. Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
confront: v. To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles.
congeal: v. To coagulate.
congenial: adj. Having kindred character or tastes.
congest: v. To collect into a mass.
congregate: v. To bring together into a crowd.
coniferous: adj. Cone-bearing trees.
conjecture: n. A guess.
conjoin: v. To unite.
conjugal: adj. Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons.
conjugate: adj. Joined together in pairs.
conjugation: n. The state or condition of being joined together.
conjunction: n. The state of being joined together, or the things so joined.
connive: v. To be in collusion.
connoisseur: n. A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art.
connote: v. To mean; signify.
connubial: adj. Pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
conquer: v. To overcome by force.
consanguineous: adj. Descended from the same parent or ancestor.
conscience: n. The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct.
conscientious: adj. Governed by moral standard.
conscious: adj. Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks.
conscript: v. To force into military service.
consecrate: v. To set apart as sacred.
consecutive: adj. Following in uninterrupted succession.
consensus: n. A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons.
conservatism: n. Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things.
conservative: adj. Adhering to the existing order of things.
conservatory: n. An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation.
consign: v. To entrust.
consignee: n. A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.
consignor: n. One who entrusts.
consistency: n. A state of permanence.
console: v. To comfort.
consolidate: v. To combine into one body or system.
consonance: n. The state or quality of being in accord with.
consonant: adj. Being in agreement or harmony with.
consort: n. A companion or associate.
conspicuous: adj. Clearly visible.
conspirator: n. One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose.
conspire: v. To plot.
constable: n. An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
constellation: n. An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.
consternation: n. Panic.
constituency: n. The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
constituent: n. One who has the right to vote at an election.
constrict: v. To bind.
consul: n. An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
consulate: n. The place in which a consul transacts official business.
consummate: v. To bring to completion.
consumption: n. Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc.
consumptive: adj. Designed for gradual destruction.
contagion: n. The communication of disease from person to person.
contagious: adj. Transmitting disease.
contaminate: v. To pollute.
contemplate: v. To consider thoughtfully.
contemporaneous: adj. Living, occurring, or existing at the same time.
contemporary: adj. Living or existing at the same time.
contemptible: adj. Worthy of scorn or disdain.
contemptuous: adj. Disdainful.
contender: n. One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry.
contiguity: n. Proximity.
contiguous: adj. Touching or joining at the edge or boundary.
continence: n. Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion.
contingency: n. Possibility of happening.
contingent: adj. Not predictable.
continuance: n. Permanence.
continuation: n. Prolongation.
continuity: n. Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development.
continuous: adj. Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
contort: v. To twist into a misshapen form.
contraband: n. Trade forbidden by law or treaty.
contradiction: n. The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said.
contradictory: adj. Inconsistent with itself.
contraposition: n. A placing opposite.
contravene: v. To prevent or obstruct the operation of.
contribution: n. The act of giving for a common purpose.
contributor: n. One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
contrite: adj. Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
contrivance: n. The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
contrive: v. To manage or carry through by some device or scheme.
control: v. To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
controller: n. One who or that which regulates or directs.
contumacious: adj. Rebellious.
contumacy: n. Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
contuse: v. To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
contusion: n. A bruise.
convalesce: v. To recover after a sickness.
convalescence: n. The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
convalescent: adj. Recovering health after sickness.
convene: v. To summon or cause to assemble.
convenience: n. Fitness, as of time or place.
converge: v. To cause to incline and approach nearer together.
convergent: adj. Tending to one point.
conversant: adj. Thoroughly informed.
conversion: n. Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another.
convertible: adj. Interchangeable.
convex: adj. Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle.
conveyance: n. That by which anything is transported.
convivial: adj. Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking.
convolution: n. A winding motion.
convolve: v. To move with a circling or winding motion.
convoy: n. A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation.
convulse: v. To cause spasms in.
convulsion: n. A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body.
copious: adj. Plenteous.
coquette: n. A flirt.
cornice: n. An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling.
cornucopia: n. The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity.
corollary: n. A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration.
coronation: n. The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch.
coronet: n. Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign.
corporal: adj. Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
corporate: adj. Belonging to a corporation.
corporeal: adj. Of a material nature; physical.
corps: n. A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together.
corpse: n. A dead body.
corpulent: adj. Obese.
corpuscle: n. A minute particle of matter.
correlate: v. To put in some relation of connection or correspondence.
correlative: adj. Mutually involving or implying one another.
corrigible: adj. Capable of reformation.
corroborate: v. To strengthen, as proof or conviction.
corroboration: n. Confirmation.
corrode: v. To ruin or destroy little by little.
corrosion: n. Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
corrosive: n. That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
corruptible: adj. Open to bribery.
corruption: n. Loss of purity or integrity.
cosmetic: adj. Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion.
cosmic: adj. Pertaining to the universe.
cosmogony: n. A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
cosmography: n. The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology.
cosmology: n. The general science of the universe.
cosmopolitan: adj. Common to all the world.
cosmopolitanism: n. A cosmopolitan character.
cosmos: n. The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement.
counter-claim: n. A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff.
counteract: v. To act in opposition to.
counterbalance: v. To oppose with an equal force.
countercharge: v. To accuse in return.
counterfeit: adj. Made to resemble something else.
counterpart: n. Something taken with another for the completion of either.
countervail: v. To offset.
counting-house: n. A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
countryman: n. A rustic.
courageous: adj. Brave.
course: n. Line of motion or direction.
courser: n. A fleet and spirited horse.
courtesy: n. Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
covenant: n. An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
covert: adj. Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
covey: n. A flock of quails or partridges.
cower: v. To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
coxswain: n. One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer.
crag: n. A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge.
cranium: n. The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain.
crass: adj. Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
craving: n. A vehement desire.
creak: n. A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
creamery: n. A butter-making establishment.
creamy: adj. Resembling or containing cream.
credence: n. Belief.
credible: adj. Believable.
credulous: adj. Easily deceived.
creed: n. A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief.
crematory: adj. A place for cremating dead bodies.
crevasse: n. A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier.
crevice: n. A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces.
criterion: n. A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion.
critique: n. A criticism or critical review.
crockery: n. Earthenware made from baked clay.
crucible: n. A trying and purifying test or agency.
crusade: n. Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle.
crustacean: adj. Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc.
crustaceous: adj. Having a crust-like shell.
cryptogram: n. Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.
crystallize: v. To bring together or give fixed shape to.
cudgel: n. A short thick stick used as a club.
culinary: adj. Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen.
cull: v. To pick or sort out from the rest.
culpable: adj. Guilty.
culprit: n. A guilty person.
culvert: n. Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
cupidity: n. Avarice.
curable: adj. Capable of being remedied or corrected.
curator: n. A person having charge as of a library or museum.
curio: n. A piece of bric-a-brac.
cursive: adj. Writing in which the letters are joined together.
cursory: adj. Rapid and superficial.
curt: adj. Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.
curtail: v. To cut off or cut short.
curtsy: n. A downward movement of the body by bending the knees.
cycloid: adj. Like a circle.
cygnet: n. A young swan.
cynical: adj. Exhibiting moral skepticism.
cynicism: n. Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value.
cynosure: n. That to which general interest or attention is directed.

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