| Question |
Answer |
| cadence | rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds); beat; regular beat of sound; rhythm |
| cadet | student at a military school |
| cajole | persuade by praise or false promise; coax; wheedle |
| calamity | disaster; misery |
| calculated | deliberately planned; likely |
| caldron(cauldron) | large kettle |
| caliber | ability; quality; diameter of the inside of a round cylinder; Ex. work of very high caliber |
| calligraphy | beautiful writing; excellent penmanship |
| callous | hardened; unfeeling; without sympathy for the sufferings of others; unkind |
| callow | youthful; immature; inexperienced |
| callus | area of thick hard skin |
| calorific | heat-producing; N. calorie |
| calumny | malicious misrepresentation; slander |
| camaraderie | good-fellowship; CF. comrade |
| cameo | shell or jewel carved in relief; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film |
| camp | group sharing a common cause or opinion |
| canard | unfounded false rumor; exaggerated false report |
| candor | frankness; open honesty; ADJ. candid |
| canine | related to dogs; doglike |
| canker | any ulcerous sore; ulcer; any evil; CF. cancer |
| canny | shrewd in money matters; thrifty |
| cant | insincere speech or expression of piety; jargon of thieves; special words used by a particular group of people |
| cantankerous | ill-humored; irritable |
| cantata | story set to music to be sung by a chorus (shorter than an oratorio) |
| canter | slow gallop; V. CF. trot |
| canto | division of a long poem |
| canvass | determine or seek opinions, votes, etc.; go through (a region) to solicit votes or orders; conduct a survey; N. |
| capacious | spacious |
| capacity | mental or physical ability; role; position or duty; ability to accommodate; Ex. in my capacity as president |
| capillary | having a very fine bore; resembling a hair; fine and slender; Ex. capillary attraction; N: very fine hairlike tube; CF. capillarity |
| capitulate | surrender; give up all resistance |
| caprice | whim; sudden change of mind without any real cause |
| capricious | unpredictable; fickle |
| capsize | (of a boat) turn over |
| caption | title; chapter heading; text under illustration |
| captious | faultfinding; too critical |
| carafe | glass water bottle; decanter |
| carapace | shell covering the back (of a turtle, tortoise, crab, etc.) |
| carat(karat) | unit of weight for precious stones; measure of the purity of gold |
| carcinogenic | causing cancer; N. carcinogen |
| cardinal | chief; most important; N: priest; cardinal number: number that shows quantity rather thatn order |
| cardiologist | doctor specializing in ailments of the heart |
| careen | lurch; sway from side to side; move with irregular swinging movement; stagger |
| career | rush wildly; go at full speed |
| carefree | free from worries; having no problems |
| caricature | distortion; burlesque |
| carillon | a set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being played |
| carnage | destruction of life; slaughter; killing of large numbers of people or animals |
| carnal | fleshly; sensual; concerning the desires of the body |
| carnivorous | meat-eating; N. carnivore; CF. herbivore |
| carousal | drunken revel; V. carouse |
| carping | petty criticism; fault-finding; fretful complaining; quibble |
| carrion | rotting flesh of a dead body; CF. vulture |
| cartographer | map-maker |
| cascade | small waterfall |
| caste | one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society; social stratification; prestige |
| castigation | punishment; severe criticism or disapproval |
| castrate | remove the sex organs (of a male animal or person) |
| casual | happening by chance; irregular; occasional; informal; showing or feeling little interest; Ex. casual reader/labor/remark |
| casualty | serious or fatal accident; person killed or wounded in an accident or battle |
| cataclysm | deluge; upheaval; earthquake; violent and sudden event or change |
| catalyst | agent which brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged; CF. catalysis |
| catapult | slingshot; hurling machine; V: fire from catapult |
| cataract | great waterfall; eye abnormality (causing a gradual loss of eyesight) |
| catastrophe | calamity ; disaster |
| catcall | shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match); boo; V. |
| catechism | book for religious instruction in question-and-answer form; religious instruction by question and answer; V. catechize |
| categorical | without exceptions; made without any doubt in mind; unqualified; absolute |
| cater | provide food and drink (for); cater to: try to satisfy (desires of a bad kind) |
| catharsis | purging or cleansing of any passage of the body; purging and weakening of strong emotions as a result of experiencing a dramatic work of art |
| cathartic | purgative; medicine that causes the bowels to empty; ADJ. |
| catholic | (of likings and interests) universal; general; broad; including many different parts; wide-ranging liberal; Ex. catholic opinions/tastes |
| caucus | private meeting of a group of people in a political party to select officers or determine policy; CF. the Caucus club of Boston |
| caulk(calk) | make watertight (by blocking up cracks as in a ship) |
| causal | implying a cause-and-effect relationship; N. causality |
| caustic | burning; corrosive; able to burn by chemical action; sarcastically biting; (of remarks) intended to hurt; bitter; harmful; OP. harmless |
| cauterize | burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent infection |
| cavalcade | procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages; parade; CF. cavalry |
| cavalier | casual and offhand; arrogant; N: knight |
| cavil | quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily |
| cede | yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession |
| celerity | speed; rapidity |
| celestial | heavenly |
| celibate | abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy |
| cemetery | place for burying the dead |
| censor | (in ancient Rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census); person who eliminates inappropriate matter; V. |
| censorious | severely critical |
| censure | blame; criticize; express strong disapproval; N: severe criticism; strong disapproval |
| centaur | mythical figure, half man and half horse |
| centigrade | denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius) |
| centrifugal | radiating; departing from the center |
| centrifuge | machine that separates substances by whirling them |
| centripetal | tending toward the center |
| centurion | Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers) |
| cerebral | pertaining to the brain or intellect; intellectual rather than emotional; CF. cerebrum |
| cerebration | thought; working of the brain |
| ceremonious | marked by formality; extremely formal and polite; CF. ceremony: conventional social courtesy |
| certitude | certainty |
| cessation | stoppage |
| cession | yielding to another; ceding |
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