C words Flashcards
Cacophonous***
(adj) unpleasant or harsh-sounding
Cadge
(v) to beg; sponge
Calumny
(n) false and malicious accusation; slander
Canard
(n) false, deliberately misleading story
Cant***
(n) insincere talk; language of a particular group
Capricious***
(adj) fickle
Captious
(adj) faultfinding; intended to entrap, as in an argument – “cap”tivate or “cap”ture
Cardinal
(adj) of foremost importance
Carping
(adj) to find fault; complain – sort of like “harping”
Castigation***
(n) punishment; chastisement; criticism
Catalyst***
(n) something causing change
Categorical
(adj) absolute; without exception
Caucus
(n) smaller group within an organization
Causal
(adj) involving a cause
Centrifugal
(adj) moving away from a center
Chasten
(v) to correct by punishment or reproof; to restrain or subdue
Chicanery***
(n) trickery; fraud
Circuitous
(adj) roundabout
Coagulate***
(v) thicken; congeal
Coalesce
(v) to cause to become one
Codify
(v) to systematize
Commensurate***
(adj) proportional
Compendium***
(n) brief, comprehensive summary
Complacent
(adj) self-satisfied
Complaisant***
(adj) overly polite; willing to please; obliging
Conciliatory***
(adj) overcoming distrust or hostility
Concomitant***
(n) existing concurrently
Confound***
(v) to baffle; perplex; mix up
Congenial
(adj) similar in tastes and habits; friendly; suited to
Contentious***
(adj) quarrelsome; causing quarrels
Contumacious
(adj) disobedient; rebellious
Conundrum***
(n) riddle; puzzle with no solution
Convoluted***
(adj) twisted; complicated
Cosmology***
(n) study of the universe as a totality; theory of the origin structure of the universe
Covetous
(adj) desiring something owned by another – like in the bible
Cozen
(v) to mislead by trick or fraud; deceive
Craven***
(adj) cowardly
Credence***
(n) acceptance of something as true
