| A | B |
|---|
| bacchanalian | drunken |
| badger | pester; annoy |
| baleful | deadly; destructive |
| balk | foil |
| balmy | mild; fragrant |
| banal | hackneyed; commonplace; trite |
| bantering | good-natured ridiculing |
| cajole | coax; wheedle |
| caliber | ability; capacity |
| canard | unfounded rumor; exaggerated report |
| candor | frankness |
| canny | shrewed; thrifty |
| canvass | determine votes |
| caprice | whim |
| caption | chapter heading; text under illustration |
| caricature | distortion; burlesque |
| carnal | fleshly |
| carnage | destruction of life |
| carnivorous | meat-eating |
| carping | finding fault |
| carrion | rotting flesh of a dead body |
| carte blanche | unlimited authority or freedom |
| cataclysm | deluge; upheaval |
| caustic | burning; sarcastically biting |
| cauterize | burn with hot iron |
| cavalcade | procession; parade |
| cede | transfer; yield title to |
| celestial | heavenly |
| celibate | unmarried; abstaining from sexual intercourse |
| cerebral | pertaining to the brain or intellect |
