C Flashcards
(106 cards)
Cabal
A secret scheme or plot
Cajole
Coax gently and persistently
Callous
Toughened
Calumnies
False statement maliciously made to injure someone
Candor
Straightforwardness
Canny
Careful and shrewd
Canonization
To approve as being within canon law
Capricious
Impulsive and unpredictable
Castigate
Punish or chastise
Catalyst
One that precipitates a process or event without being involved in or changed
Catharsis
Purifying or figurative cleansing or release of the emotions or of tension, especially through art
Caustic
Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or otherwise eating away by chemical action
Cauterizes
To burn or sear with a very hot or very cold instrument
Cavalier
Armed horseman
Celebrated
Well and usually favorably known
Cerebral
Pertaining to the brain or cerebrum
Chaff
Husks of grain after separation from the seed
Good-natured teasing
Chagrin
Feeling of embarrassment or humiliation caused by failure or disappointment
Charade
Absurd pretense intended to create respectable appearance
Charismatic
Characterized by a special quality of personal magnetism or charm
Chary
Very cautious
Chide
Scold
Chided
Scolded
Chronicling
To record in or in the form of a chronicle