| Term | Definition |
|---|
| bustle | energetic and noisy activity |
| buttress | something which props or supports a structure, especially the wall of a church |
| bygone | past, earlier, former |
| cardiologist | a doctor who studies and treats the heart |
| carp | to find fault with and complain without reason |
| catalyst | a substance causing a chemical reaction without being affected itself; a person who causes such change in a social situation |
| centrifugal | directed outward from the center, as in a centrifuge, a device which spins materials and cuases the heaviest to settle to the outside of the rotation center |
| chimerical | unreal, imaginary; wildly fanciful |
| choreography | the art of composing dances |
| chronic | continuing over a loud period of time; habitual |
| chronicle | a chronological record of events, a history |
| clemency | mercy, especially when showing forgiveness or kindness when judging or punishing someone |
| clergy | the officials in the religions, such as priest, nuns, etc. |
| climax | the high point of a sequence of events, especially of the action of play, movie or piece of music |
| coalesce | to unite, to flow or grow together and become one |
| combustible | able to catch fire and explode, flammable |
| combustion | the process of burning |
| compress | to squeeze together, so as to take up less room |
| condolence | an expression of sympathy for someone who is suffering the loss of a loved one |
| confide | to tell secrets to someone you TRUST |
| configuration | the arrangement of the parts of something |
| confound | to confuse, perplex, or bewilder; to miss or associate by mistake |
| connotation | the extra, associative meaning of a word beyond its meaning in a dictionary |
| consensus | the general opinion of a group |
| console | to comfort or soothe someone who is feeling loss or sorrow |
| contrive | to plan cleverly, invent |
| copious | plentiful, abundant, large in number |
| corpulent | fat, chubby, large of body |
| cosmic | pertaining to the cosmos, the universe; cast |
| counterbalance | to oppose with an equal weight of influence |
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