- bevy: a group especially a group of girls or women; a flock of birds especially a flock of quail
- cabal: a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
- cacophony: harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance
- cadge: sponge, beg, or mooch
- cajole: to inveigle, coax, wheedle, sweet talk
- calumniate (n: calumny): to slander, make false accusation (n: slander, aspersion)
- canard: a deliberately misleading fabrication
- canon (a: canonical): established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature (a: following traditional standards)
- capricious: inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
- cardinal: of basic importance or consequence
- carnage: physical remains
- carnality: something relating to the body or flesh
- castigation: sever criticism or punishment
- catalyst: a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change
- causality: the relationship between cause and effect
- caustic: burning or stinging; causing corrosion
- censure (a: censorious): criticize severely; to officially rebuke
- chaos: a condition of confusion or unpredictability
- chary (CHAR ee): wary; cautious; sparing
- chasten (CHAY sun): to chastise or correct; subdue
- chauvinist: one blindly devoted to a group of which one is a member
- chic: stylish and fashionable; sophisticated in dress
- chicanery: trickery or subterfuge
- chimera: an illusion
- choleric: tending toward anger
- churlish: boorish, vulgar, loutish; difficult and intractable
- cloying: distasteful; excessively sweet or sentimental
- coalesce: to come together; to fuse or unite
- coda: concluding section to a musical or literary piece, something that concludes or completes
- cogent: appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
- color: to change as if by dyeing, influence, distort, or gloss over
- commensurate: matching, corresponding, or proportionate in degree, size, amount or other property
- complacent: self-satisfied
- complaisance: the willingness to comply with the wishes of others
- confound: to cause to be confused; to frustrate
- connoisseur: an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
- consequential: pompous, self-important
- contemn: to scorn or despise
- contentious: argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
- contiguous: sharing a border; touching; adjacent
- contrite: regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
- contumacious: stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority (esp. disobedient to an order made by a court)
- contumacious: insubordinate, rebellious
- convention: a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
- convoluted: complex or complicated
- coquette: a women who tries to attract men purely to please her vanity; a flirt
- corrigible: capable of being set right, correctable, reparable
- corroborate: (v.) to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify.
- cosset: to treat with excessive indulgence; to pamper.
- coterie: an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- countenance (n:): to approve of or tolerate (mien, face, composure)
- cozen: to deceive, beguile, hoodwink
- craven: contemptibly fainthearted, pusillanimous, lacking any courage
- credulous: tending to believe too readily; gullible
- crescendo: a gradual increase in intensity, particularly in music
- culpable: deserving blame
- cupidity: extreme greed for material wealth
- curmudgeon: a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas
- cynicism: an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
GRE: C