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cacophonous

unpleasant, harsh sounding

cadge

to beg

callous

insensitive; thick-skinned

calumny

slander

canard

false; deliberatley misleading story

canon

established principle

cant

insincere talk, language of particular group

cantankerous

irritable

capricious

fickle

captious

fault-finding

cardinal

foremost importance

carnal

of physical appetite

carping

to find fault

cartography

science of making maps

caste

hereditary social class

castigation

punishment; chastisement

cataclysm

violent upheaval causing change

categorical

absolute

caucus

smaller group within an organization

causal

involving a cause

caustic

sarcastically biting; burning

celestial

of the skies; sublime

centrifugal

moving away from the center

centripetal

moving toward the center

champion

to defend / support

chasten

to correct by punishment

chicanery

trickery; fraud

chivalry

qualities expected of ideal knight (bravery, courtesy, honor)

churlish

rude

circuitous

roundabout

clairvoyant

psychic

clamor

noisy outcry

clique

small, exclusive group

cloister

to confine or seclude

coagulate

thicken, congeal

coda

concluding part of literature or music; summarized or concludes

codify

to systemize

cognizant

aware

collage

assemblage of diverse elements

commensurate

proporational

complacent

self-satisfied

complaisant

overly polite; willing to please

complement

something that completes

compliant

yielding

compunction

uneasiness caused by guilt

concave

curving inward

conciliatory

overcoming hostility

concoct

to invent

concaminant

existing concurrently

condone

to voluntarily forgive

confound

to baffle; perplex

congenial

friendly; suited to

conjugal

relating to marriage

connoisseur

expert; of informed, discriminating taste

conscript

person enrolled for miliary

consecrete

to declare sacred

contend

to assert

contentious

quarrelsome

contiguous

neighboring; connecting

continence

self-control

contrite

very sorrowful for a wrong

contumacious

rebellious

conundrum

puzzle without solution

convention

practices widely observed in a group

converge

to come together

convex

curving outward

convivial

sociable

convoluted

complicated

copious

abundant

coquette

flirtatious woman

cornucopia

state of abundance

cosmology

study of the universe

covert

secret

covetous

desiring something owned by another

cozen

mislead by fraud

craven

cowardly

credence

acceptance of something that's true

credo

statement of belief