C words
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- commemorate
- (verb) to celebrate; to keep in memory through celebration
- cumulative
- (adj) resulting from gradual increase
- cordial
- (adj) warm and friendly
- cue
- (noun) a signal; a hint
- constrict
- (verb) to make smaller or narrower by squeezing
- conceal
- (verb) to hide; to keep secret
- comprehensive
- (adj) complete; thorough
- camouflage
- (verb) to disguise in order to conceal from the enemy
- choleric
- (adj) easily angered
- candid
- (adj) honest; truthful
- congruity
- (noun) correspondence; harmony
- catastrophe
- (noun) any sudden, great disaster
- consensus
- (noun) general agreement
- copious
- (adj) plentiful; large in quantity
- contiguous
- (adj) in contact; touching; near; next
- concave
- (adj) curved (surface) inward and hollow
- coax
- (verb) persuade gently: to persuade somebody gently to do something
- collision
- (noun) a crash; a colliding
- censor
- (noun) an official with the power to prohibit objectionable or obscene material
- coquette
- (noun) a woman who flirts
- camaraderie
- (noun) friendship
- culprit
- (noun) guilty party
- confidential
- (adj) secret
- critic
- (noun) one who judges
- connoisseur
- (noun) an expert
- contentious
- (adj) quarrelsome; argumentative
- celestial
- (adj) of heavens or sky
- caustic
- (adj) burning; sarcastic; witty
- classify
- (verb) to organize in groups or categories
- commute
- (verb) to travel to work; to make less severe
- convene
- (verb) to meet; to come together
- colloquial
- (adj) informal in speech or writing; conversational
- commend
- (verb) to praise
- choreographer
- (noun) one who devises dances or ballets
- composure
- (noun) calmness
- coercion
- (noun) force
- construe
- (verb) to analyze; to interpret
- cantankerous
- (adj) bad-tempered; quarrelsome
- compelling
- (adj) demanding of attention
- cascade
- (noun) a small, steep waterfall
- congenial
- (adj) friendly; agreeable
- coherent
- (adj) logical; understandable
- cynic
- (noun) person who distrusts and doubts anything good
- curtail
- (verb) to shorten; to reduce
- condemn
- (verb) to blame; to sentence
- contemporary
- (adj) modern; current
- contend
- (verb) to compete; to struggle; to argue
- chronic
- (adj) lasting a long time
- confidant
- (noun) a person in whom one confides in
- condescending
- (adj) acting or behaving with a superior attitude
- concur
- (verb) to agree in opinion; to coincide; to happen together
- canine
- (adj) of or like a dog
- conserve
- (verb) to save; prevent wastage
- cohesive
- (adj) unified
- criterion
- (noun) a standard used to measure or judge
- countenance
- (verb/noun) to favor; to support; a person's face or facial expressions
- collaborate
- (verb) to work together
- candor
- (noun) frankness; sincerity
- couplet
- (noun) two successive rhyming lines of poetry
- conventional
- (adj) traditional
- circulate
- (verb) to pass around; move from place to place
- competent
- (adj) capable; fit
- consolidate
- (verb) to combine; to make stronger
- comtemplate
- (verb) to gaze at or think about intently
- compassion
- (noun) deep sympathy; pity
- crass
- (adj) unrefined; crude
- credible
- (adj) believable; plausible
- creed
- (noun) statement of belief or principle
- congregate
- (verb) to gather together
- curvature
- (noun) a curving; being curved
- compile
- (verb) to draw up; to collect or arrange in a list
- covert
- (adj) secret; hidden
- communicative
- (adj) giving or exchanging information or messages
- chasm
- (noun) a deep crack in the earth's surface; any break or gap
- coalesce
- (verb) to come together; to unite
- consecientious
- (adi) Hardworking; diligent
- conspicuous
- (adj) very obvious
- craggy
- (adj) very high; steep
- cache
- (noun) a place in which stores of food are hidden
- circumscribe
- (verb) to draw a line around; to encircle; to limit narrowly
- cajole
- (verb) to persuade; to coax
- concise
- (adj) condensed; brief
- corpulence
- (noun) fatness; obesity
- compel
- (verb) force somebody: to force somebody to do something
- counsel
- (noun) mutual exchange of ideas; advice; a lawyer or group of lawyers
- convergence
- (noun) meeting
- condone
- (verb) to forgive; to overlook
- conception
- (noun) a conceiving; an idea
- confound
- (verb) to baffle; to perplex
- conform
- (verb) to obey; to follow rules
- capricious
- (adj) fickle; impulsive; unpredictable
- connive
- (verb) to conspire; to scheme
- confiscate
- (verb) to take or seize by authority
- consolation
- (noun) the act or instance of comforting
- causality
- (noun) the relation between cause and effect
- callous
- (adj) insensitive; emotionally hardened
- convivial
- (adj) soiable; fond of food, drink and people
- compliance
- (noun) obedience; agreement to do something
- courier
- (noun) a messenger