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- cabal: a group that seeks power usually through intrigue.
- cadge: to beg; to sponge.
- cadre: a core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed.
- cadre: a small unit that serves as the nucleus of a larger organization.
- caesura: a break or pause in a line of verse; also, any break or pause.
- cajole: to coax.
- callow: immature.
- calumny: malicious misrepresentation; slander.
- camarilla: a group of secret and often scheming advisers.
- canard: a fabricated sensational report or statement.
- canard: an unfounded or false report
- canorous: melodious; musical.
- cant: empty, solemn speech.
- capacious: able to contain much.
- capacious: able to contain much; large; roomy.
- cap-a-pie: from head to foot.
- capitulate: to surrender under agreed conditions.
- capricious: whimsical; changeable.
- captious: disposed to find fault or raise objections.
- carapace: a shell; a protective covering.
- carom: to strike and rebound; also, a glancing off.
- castigate: to punish or criticize severely.
- cataract: a large waterfall; also, a downpour, a flood.
- caterwaul: to make a harsh cry or screech.
- cavalcade: a procession.
- caveat: a warning or caution.
- cavil: a frivolous objection.
- cavil: to raise trivial objections; also, a trivial objection.
- cavort: to bound or prance about.
- celerity: quickness; swiftness.
- censorious: harshly critical.
- censure: to criticize severely; also, an expression of disapproval.
- cerebration: mental activity.
- cerebration: the act or product of thinking.
- chagrin: acute vexation or embarrassment.
- chary: careful; wary; cautious.
- chary: wary; cautious.
- chicanery: the use of trickery to deceive.
- chichi: affectedly trendy.
- chimera: a mental fabrication.
- chimerical: merely imaginary; fanciful
- choler: anger.
- choleric: easily angered; also, indicating or expressing anger.
- chortle: to utter, or express with, a snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle.
- chthonic: dwelling in or under the earth; also, pertaining to the underworld.
- circumambient: surrounding; encompassing.
- circumlocution: the use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few.
- circumspect: cautious; prudent.
- circumspect: cautious; prudent; wary.
- clamber: to climb with difficulty, or on all fours.
- clamber: to climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet.
- claque: a group of fawning admirers.
- clarion: a kind of trumpet; also, loud and clear.
- clemency: disposition to show mercy; also, an act of mercy.
- clerisy: the intelligentsia.
- clinquant: tinsel.
- Cockaigne: an imaginary land of ease and luxury.
- coeval: existing during the same period of time; also, a contemporary.
- cogent: appealing to the mind or to reason; convincing.
- cogent: having the power to compel conviction.
- cogitate: consider carefully and deeply; ponder.
- cogitate: to think; to ponder.
- cognoscente: a person with special knowledge.
- cognoscente: an expert in a certain field.
- cohort: a group; also, a companion or associate.
- collegial: characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues; also, collegiate.
- colloquial: characteristic of informal spoken language.
- collude: to conspire; to act in concert.
- comely: pleasing to the sight.
- comestible: suitable to be eaten.
- comity: a state of mutual civility and respect.
- comity: a state of mutual harmony, friendship, and respect.
- commensurate: equal in measure or extent; also, proportionate repletion: the condition of being completely or excessively full.
- commensurate: equal in measure or extent; also, proportionate.
- commodious: comfortably spacious; roomy.
- complaisant: exhibiting a desire to please.
- complement: something that fills up or completes
- complement: that which completes.
- comport: to behave (oneself) in a particular manner.
- comport: to conduct; to behave.
- compunction: anxiety or unease from guilt; also, a scruple.
- compunction: the sting of conscience.
- concatenation: a chain; a succession.
- concinnity: elegance — used chiefly of literary style.
- concomitant: accompanying; attending.
- concupiscence: lust.
- condign: deserved; adequate.
- confabulation: familiar talk; also, a plausible but imagined memory.
- conflagration: a large and destructive fire.
- conflate: to bring together; to meld.
- confluence: a coming together.
- confluence: a flowing or coming together.
- confrere: a colleague, comrade, or intimate associate.
- confrere: a colleague.
- confute: to refute conclusively.
- congeries: a collection; an aggregation.
- connubial: of or pertaining to marriage.
- consanguineous: related by blood.
- consanguineous: related by blood; descended from the same ancestor.
- conspectus: a sketch, survey, or outline of a subject.
- constitutional: a walk taken for one’s health.
- contemporaneous: originating, existing, or occurring at the same time.
- contradistinction: distinction by contrast.
- contravene: to act or be counter to.
- contretemps: something inopportune or embarrassing.
- contrite: feeling or expressing grief and regret for sins or offenses.
- contumacious: obstinate; stubbornly disobedient.
- contumely: rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt.
- conurbation: an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities. tryst: an appointment (as between lovers) to meet.
- conurbation: an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities.
- convivial: merry; festive; social.
- convivial: relating to or fond of festivity and good company.
- copious: large in number or quantity.
- copious: large in quantity; also, affording an abundant supply.
- copse: a thicket of small trees.
- coquette: a flirt.
- cormorant: a gluttonous, greedy, or rapacious person.
- cornucopia: the horn of plenty; also, an abundance.
- corpulent: very fat; obese.
- corroborate: to strengthen or make more certain with other evidence.
- coruscate: to give off or reflect bright beams or flashes of light.
- coruscate: to sparkle.
- cosmopolite: a cosmopolitan person.
- cosset: to pamper.
- coterminous: of equal extent or duration.
- countermand: to revoke (a former command) or recall by a contrary order.
- countervail: to counteract; also, to offset.
- coxcomb: a vain, showy fellow.
- cozen: to deceive or obtain by deceit.
- crabwise: sideways; also, in a cautiously indirect manner fetor: a strong, offensive smell.
- crapulous: sick from, or marked by, excessive drinking.
- credulous: inclined to believe too readily.
- crepuscular: pertaining to twilight.
- crux: the essential point or feature.
- cudgel: a club.
- cum: with; along with; combined with. vehement: marked by intensity of emotions or convictions.
- cupidity: eager or excessive desire, especially for wealth.
- cupidity: greed.
- cursory: hastily or superficially performed. revenant: one who returns after death or a long absence
- cynosure: a center of attention.
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