| Term | Definition |
|---|
| cadence | the rise and fall of the voice in a speaking,intonation |
| callow | young and without experience,jejune |
| calumny | a false accusation , defamation |
| canard | deliberately misleading story,fabrication |
| candour | the quality of being frank or honest in one's behavior,candidness |
| canker | a disease causing sore patches, evil |
| cantankerous | bad tempered and tending to argue abt unimportant things |
| capacious | spacious and roomy,commodious |
| capricious | impulsive ,mercurial |
| captious | fault finding,confusing as in argument |
| carapace | hard outer shell, covering of sth |
| cardinal | most important,chief |
| carousal | a noisy drinking party, bacchanal |
| cartel | a grp of companies in the same business area that forms an association |
| castigate | to criticize or punish somebody severely,reprimand, eg he was ____ for not setting a good example. |
| casuistry | use of clever arguments to deceive people, chicanery |
| catechism | instruction by question and answer,book for religious instruction |
| cauterize | to burn with a host substance |
| caveat | warning , proviso |
| cavil | make petty or unnecessary objections ,eg :they____ at the cost. |
| certitude | confidence or assurance or certainty |
| chaff | worth less products of an endeavor ,debris |
| chagrin | a feeling of being disappointed or annoyed, mortification |
| charlatan | quack, impostor |
| chary | cautious,prudent |
| cherubic | with the innocence of a child,celestial |
| chicanery | deception by clever means ,artifice |
| chiropodist | one who treats the ailments of the feat |
| choleric | bad tempered ,easily made angry |
| churlish | rude and ill mannered or boorish |
| ciliated | having minute hairs |
| circuitous | roundabout,devious |
| circumspect | attentive ,cagey |
| clairvoyant | one who has the power of seeing future events, prophet |
| clemency | kindness shown to somebody when he is being punished ,leniency |
| clique | a small group of people ,junta |
| cloying | distasteful because of excessive sweetness ,prosaic |
| coalesce | to blend or join together or amalgamate |
| codicil | an addition to a will by a person , addendum |
| cogent | convincing , persuasive |
| cogitate | to think seriously ,brainstorm |
| cognitive | the process of learning , intellective |
| cohorts | a band of soldiers,comrades |
| colloquial | used in conversation but not formally , vernacular |
| collusion | a secret agreement for fraudulent or illegal purpose,conspiracy |
| colossus | extremely large sized , giant |
| comestible | eatable , edible |
| comeuppance | a punishment for sth bad that one has done, rebuke |
| commensurate | corresponding to size or proportional |
| commiserate | to sympathize with or condole |
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