| Term | Definition |
| cacophony | harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices, sounds |
| cadence | rhythm, rise and fall of sounds |
| euphony | pleasing sound |
| cajole | to persuade someone to do something they don’t want to do |
| callow | immature, youthfully naïve, inexperienced |
| candor | truthfulness, sincere honesty |
| candid | honest, frank |
| capitalism | free enterprise, businesses are owned by the people, not the government |
| capitulate | to surrender, to give in or give up |
| recapitulate | to summarize |
| capricious | unpredictable, likely to change at any moment |
| caprice | a whim |
| caricature | a portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated often to prove some point about its subject |
| castigate | to criticize severely, to chastise (not censure) |
| catalyst | something that indirectly makes something else happen, something that speeds the reaction |