C Flashcards
Cache
A hiding place
A computer memory
Callow
Juvenile, lacking adult sophistication
Candid
White, having no color
Fair, free from bias, prejudice, or malice
Blunt
Honest
Capitulate
Negotiate
To surrender, to cease resisting
Capricious
Impulsive, unpredictable
Cascade
A steep and small fall of water
In a series, in chronological order
Something falling or rushing forth in quantity
Cater
To provide or supply for
Cauterize
To make insensible
To burn the skin or flesh of a wound with heat or a caustic substance to stop bleeding and infection
Cautious
Careful
Censor
To person who supervises conduct and morals
One of the magistrates of Ancient Rome who acted as census takers, assessors, and inspectors of moral conduct
A psychic agency
Chagrin
Distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure
Chasm
A gorge
A marked division, separation, or difference
Chronic
Continuing or recurring
Always present or encountered
Suffering from a chronic disease
Being such habitually
Chronicle
A historical account of events arranged in chronological order
A narrative
Coalesce
To grow together
To unite, fuse
To arise from the combination of distinct elements
Coerce
To restrain or dominate by force
To compel to an act or choice
Commodity
An economic good
Something useful or valued
A quantity or lot
A widely available good or service
Compassion
Sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress
Compel
To drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly
To cause to do so by overwhelming pressure
To drive together
Competent
Proper
Having adequate ability or qualities
Having the capacity of develop or function in a particular way
Composure
Calmness of mind, bearing, or appearance
Comprehensive
Inclusive
Having wide mental grasp
Conceal
To prevent disclosure or recognition of
To place out of sight
Concise
Marked by shortness of expression or statement
Condemn
To declare to be wrong after weighing evidence
To pronounce guilty, to sentence, doom
To judge fit for use or consumption
Condescending
Dominating
Condone
To treat something bad as good
Confer
To consult
To give
Confine
Something that encloses or restrains
Prison
Conform
To make similar
To be obedient or compliant
Confound
To destroy
Baffle, frustrate
To consume, waste
To put to shame
Congenial
Having the same nature, disposition m, or tastes
Pleasant, sociable
Conjure
To summon
Conniving
To pretend ignorance or fail to take action against something they should
To be indulgent
To have a secret understanding, conspire
Connoisseur
An expert
Consensus
An agreement
Conspicuous
Obvious
Attracting attention
Not having good taste
Consume
To destroy
Squander, devour, use up
To be engrossed in
Contemplation
Study
The act of regarding steadily
Intention, expectation
Concentration on spiritual things, a state of mystical awareness
Contended
To struggle with
To argue
To contest
To assert
Contradiction
A statement that asserts or implies the falseness did something else
Logical incongruity
Contrite
Having remorse and sorrow for sin or shortcoming
Controversial
Disputatious
Conventional
Formed by agreement
Ordinary, cliche
Copious
Yielding abundantly, plentiful in number
Full of thought, info, or matter
Present in large quantity
Cordial
Warm friendliness
Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate
Of or relating to the heart
Corpulent
Obese
Corrosion
To wear away or destroy
Counsel
Advice given
Deliberation
Purpose
A policy or plan of action or behavior
Counterfeit
Made in imitation to deceive
Insincere
Cower
To shrink away
Credible
Believable
Creed
A brief authoritative formula or religious belief
A set of fundamental beliefs
Crucial
Important
Cunning
Crafty
Having keen insight
Characterized by wildness and trickery
Cute
