| A | B |
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| cacophony | harsh souding mixture of words |
| cadence | rhythm, the rise and fall of sounds |
| cajole | to persuade someone to do something he or she doesnt want to do |
| callow | immature |
| candor | turthfulness, sincere honesty |
| capitalism | free enterprise |
| capitulate | to surrendor, give up or give in |
| capricious | unpredictable, likely to change at ne moment |
| capricature | a portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated |
| castigate | to critisize severely |
| catalyst | in chemistry, something that changes therate of a chemical reaction |
| categorical | unconditional, absoulte |
| catharsis | purification that brings emotional relief or renewal |
| catholic | universal, embracing errything |
| caustic | like acid |
| celibacy | abstinence from sex |
| censure | to condemn severely for doing something bad |
| cerebral | brainy |
| chagrin | humiliaton |
| charisma | a magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty |
| charlatan | fraud |
| chasm | a deep, gaping hole |
| chastise | to inflict punishment on |
| chicanery | trickery |
| chimera | an illusion |
| choleric | hot tempered |
| chronic | constant |
| chronicle | a record of events in order of time |
| circuitious | round about |
| circumlocutuion | an indirect expression |
| circumscribe | to draw a line around |
| circumspect | cautious |
| circumvent | to frustrateas though by surrounding |
| civil | civilized, polite |
| clemency | mercy |
| cliche | an overused saying or idea |
| clique | an exclusive group bound together by some shared quality or interst |
