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Word Smart - C
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cacophony | harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
| Cadge | to sponge, beg, or mooch |
| Cajole | to inveigle, coax, wheedle, sweet-talk |
| Calumniate | to slander, make a false accusation |
| Canon | an established set of principles or code of lawn, often religious in nature |
| Capricious | inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable |
| Cardinal | of basic importance or consequence; primary |
| Caret | an insertion mark used by editors and proofreaders |
| Carnality | something relating to the body or flesh |
| Castigation | severe criticism or punishment |
| Catalyst | a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that caused change |
| Causality | the relationship between cause and effect |
| Caustic | burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
| Censure | to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
| Chaos | a condition of confusion or unpredictability |
| Chary | wary; cautious; sparing |
| Chasten | to chastise or correct; subdue |
| Chauvinist | one blindly devoted to a group of which one is a member |
| Chic | stylish and fashionable; sophistication in dress |
| Chicanery | trickery or subterfuge |
| Chimera | an illusion |
| Choleric | tending toward anger |
| Churlish | boorish, vulgar, loutish; difficult and intractable |
| Coalesce | to come together; to fuse or unite |
| Coda | concluding section to a musical or literary piece, something that concludes or completes |
| Cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind of reason; convincing |
| Color | to change as if by dyeing, influence, distort, or gloss over |
| Commensurate | matching, corresponding, or proportionate in degree, size, amount, or other property |
| Complaisance | the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
| Confound | to cause to be confused; to frustrate |
| Connoisseur | an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert |
| Consequential | pompous, self-important |
| Contemn | to scorn or despise |
| Contentious | argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
| Contiguous | sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
| Contrite | regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
| Convention | a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
| Convoluted | complex or complicated |
| Corrigible | capable of being set right, correctable, reparable |
| Countenance | to approve of or tolerate |
| Cozen | to deceive, beguile, hoodwink |
| Craven | contemptibly fainthearted, pusillanimous, lacking any courage |
| Credulous | tending to believe too readily; gullible |
| Crescendo | a gradual increase in intensity, particularly in music |
| Culpable | deserving blame |
| Cynicism | an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
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