- cabal
- a small secret group
- cacophoy
- harsh or unpleasant sound
- cadaverous
- pale, ghostly, corpselike
- calamitous
- causing trouble or misery
- callow
- young and inexperienced
- calumny
- a false accusation, slander
- carouse
- to engage in a noisy, drunken party
- carte blanche
- freedom to use one's own judgment
- cataclysm
- a violent change
- caustic
- sarcastic, severely critical
- cavort
- to leap about, frolic
- centrifugal
- moving away from the center
- cerebration
- thinking, using one's brain
- certitude
- sureness, certainty
- cessation
- a stopping, a discontinuance
- chauvinism
- fanatical devotion to one's country, religion, sex, etc
- chimerical
- imaginery, fantastic, unreal
- cipher
- person or thing of no value
- circumlocution
- roundabout way of speaking
- circumspect
- cautious, careful
- clangor
- harsh ringing sound
- clout
- (colloquial) power, influence
- coalesce
- to blend, merge, fuse
- cogitate
- to think, consider carefully
- collate
- to put together in order
- commodious
- roomy, spacious
- complement
- to make whole, to complete
- complicity
- partnership in a wrongful act
- compunction
- uneasiness; remorse
- concomitant
- accompanying, attending
- condign
- deserved, suitable
- congeal
- to freeze solid, to thicken
- congenial
- friendly, agreeable
- conjugal
- pertaining to marriage
- connivance
- pretand ignorance of another's wrongdoing; conspiracy
- consanguinity
- close relationship
- consonant
- in agreement or harmony
- consternation
- sudden confusion, panic
- consummate
- to complete, perfect
- contemn
- to regard with scorn or contempt
- contentious
- ready to argue, quarrelsome
- contretemps
- an embarassing occurence
- contrite
- sorrowful, penitent
- contumacious
- disobedient, obstinate
- convalesce
- to recover from an illness
- conversant
- being familiar with
- convival
- sociable, friendly
- corollary
- inference, deduction
- corrugated
- wrinkled, ridged
- cortege
- funeral procession
- coterie
- close circle of friends
- countermand
- to cancel an order
- credulity
- readiness to believe, gullibility
- crucible
- a severe test or trial
