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circuitous (adj.)

roundabout (The bus's circuitous route took us through numerous outlying suburbs.)

circumlocution (n.)

indirect and wordy language (The professor's habit of speaking in circumlocutions made it difficult to follow his lectures.)

circumscribed (adj.)

marked off, bounded (The children were permitted to play tag only within a carefully circumscribed area of the lawn.)

circumspect (adj.)

cautious (Though I promised Rachel's father I would bring her home promptly by midnight, it would have been more circumspect not to have specified a time.)

circumvent (v.)

to get around (The school's dress code forbidding navel-baring jeans was circumvented by the determined students, who were careful to cover up with long coats when administrators were nearby.)

clairvoyant (adj.)

able to perceive things that normal people cannot (Zelda's uncanny ability to detect my lies was nothing short of clairvoyant.)

clamor 1. (n.)

loud noise (Each morning the birds outside my window make such a clamor that they wake me up.) 2. (v.)to loudly insist (Neville's fans clamored for him to appear on stage, but he had passed out on the floor of his dressing room.)

clandestine (adj.)

secret (Announcing to her boyfriend that she was going to the gym, Sophie actually went to meet Joseph for a clandestine liaison.)

cleave 1. (v.)

to divide into parts (Following the scandalous disgrace of their leader, the entire political party cleaved into warring factions.) 2. (v.) to stick together firmly (After resolving their marital problems, Junior and Rosa cleaved to one another all the more tightly.)

clemency (n.)

mercy (After he forgot their anniversary, Martin could only beg Maria for clemency.), tha thứ, khoan dung, thương xót

clergy (n.)

members of Christian holy orders (Though the villagers viewed the church rectory as quaint and charming, the clergy who lived there regarded it as a mildewy and dusty place that aggravated their allergies.)

cloying (adj.)

sickeningly sweet, ngọt ngào đến phát ngấy(Though Ronald was physically attractive, Maud found his constant compliments and solicitous remarks cloying.- khó chịu)

coagulate (v.)

to thicken, clot, đặc, đông (The top layer of the pudding had coagulated into a thick skin.)

coalesce (v.)

to fuse into a whole (Gordon's ensemble of thrift-shop garments coalesced into a surprisingly handsome outfit.)

cobbler (n.)

a person who makes or repairs shoes (I had my neighborhood cobbler replace my worn-out leather soles with new ones.)

coerce (v.)

to make somebody do something by force or threat (The court decided that Vanilla Ice did not have to honor the contract because he had been coerced into signing it.)

cogent (adj.)

intellectually convincing (Irene's arguments in favor of abstinence were so cogent that I could not resist them.)

cognizant (adj.)

aware, mindful (Jake avoided speaking to women in bars because he was cognizant of the fact that drinking impairs his judgment.)

coherent (adj.)

logically consistent, intelligible (Renee could not figure out what Monroe had seen because he was too distraught to deliver a coherent statement.)

collateral 1. (adj.)

secondary (Divorcing my wife had the collateral effect of making me poor, as she was the only one of us with a job or money.) 2. (n.) security for a debt (Jacob left his watch as collateral for the $500 loan.), tài sản thế chấp