| A | B |
|---|
| clandestine | secretive, concealed for a darker purpose |
| circumscribe | to encircle; to set limits on, to confine |
| compulsion | an irresistible impulse to act |
| comprehensive | very large in scope |
| conciliatory | overcoming distrust or hostility |
| confound | to baffle, perplex |
| comformity | similarity in form or character |
| confirm | to verify |
| controversial | producing or marked by heated dispute |
| crude | unrefined, natural, blunt, offensive |
| conviction | fixed or strong belief |
| debilitating | impairing strength, or energy |
| defensive | protective |
| deficit | inadequacy, disadvantage |
| derivative | copied or adapted; not original |
| diminish | to make smaller |
| discern | to perceive something using the senses or intellect. |
| distortion | misrepresentation; the act of twisting out of shape |
| disseminate | to spread far and wide |
| dispel | to drive out or scatter |
