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cacophony

tremendous noise, disharmonious sound

cadence

a rhythm, progression of sound

cajole

to urge, coax

calamity

an event with disastrous consequences

callous

harsh, cold, unfeeling

calumny

an attempt to spoil someone else’s reputation by spreading lies

candor

honesty, frankness

canny

shrewd, careful

capacious

very spacious

capitulate

to surrender

capricious

subject to whim, fickle

carouse

to party, celebrate

conflated with

combined with

carp

to annoy, pester

caucus

a meeting usually held by people working toward the same goal

caustic

bitter, biting, acidic

cavort

to leap about, behave boisterously

censure

harsh criticism

chastise

to criticize severely

chide

to voice disapproval

chronicle

to write a history

circumlocution

indirect and wordy language

circumscribed

marked off, bounded

circumspect

cautious

circumvent

to get around

clandestine

secret

cleave

to divide into parts or to stick together firmly

clemency

mercy

cloying

sickeningly sweet

coagulate

to thicken, clot

coalesce

to fuse into a whole

cogent

intellectually convincing

cognizant

aware, mindful

collateral

secondary

colloquial

characteristic of informal conversation

commendation

a notice of approval or recognition

commensurate

corresponding in size or amount

commodious

roomy

complacency

self satisfied ignorance of danger

complicit

being an accomplice in a wrongful act

compunction

distress caused by feeling guilty

conciliatory

friendly, agreeable

concomitant

accompanying in a subordinate fashion

condone

to pardon, deliberately overlook

conduit

a pipe of channel through which something passes

confluence

a gathering together

confound

to frustrate, confuse

congeal

to thicken into a solid

consign

to give something over to another’s care

consonant

in harmony

construe

to interpret

contemporaneous

existing during the same time

contentious

having a tendency to quarrel or dispute

contravene

to contradict, oppose, violate

contrite

penitent, eager to be forgiven

contusion

bruise,injury

convivial

characterized by feasting, drinking, merriment

convoluted

intricate, complicated

corpulence

extreme fatness

corroborate

to support with evidence

cosmopolitan

sophisticated, worldly

covert

secretly engaged in

cupidity

greed, strong desire

cursory

brief to the point of being superficial

curtail

to lessen, reduce