| A | B |
| cessation | stopping |
| chafe | warm by rubbing; make sore by rubbing |
| chagrin | vexation; disappointment |
| chalice | goblet; consecrated |
| chaotic | in utter disorder |
| charisma | divine gift; great popular harm or appeal of a political leader |
| charlatan | quack; pretender to knowledge |
| chasm | abyss |
| chaste | pure |
| chastise | punish |
| chattel | personal property |
| chicanery | trickery |
| chide | scold |
| chimerical | fantastic; highly imaginative |
| chronic | long established as a disease |
| churlish | boorish; rude |
| conclave | private meeting |
| concoct | prepare by combining; make up in concert |
| condescend | bestow courtesies with a superior air |
| condiments | seasonings spices |
| congeal | freeze; coagulate |
| congenital | existing at birth |
| conglomeration | mass of material sticking together |
| conifer | pine tree; cone-bearing tree |
| connivance | pretense of ignorance of something wrong |
| connoisseur | person competent to act as a judge of art, etc.; a lover of an art |
| connotation | suggest or implied meaning of an expression |
| consecrate | dedicate; sanctify |
| consensus | general agreement |
| consort | associate with |