| A | B |
|---|
| counterpart | a thing that completes another |
| coup | highly successful action or sudden attack |
| couple | join; unite |
| courier | messenger |
| covenant | agreement |
| covert | secret; hidden; implied |
| convetous | avaricious; eagerly desirous of |
| cow | terrorize |
| cower | shrink quivering, as from |
| coy | shy; modest; coquettish |
| cozen | cheat; hoodwink; swindle |
| crabbed | sour; peevish |
| craftines | slyness; trickiness |
| crass | very unrefined; grossly insensible |
| craven | cowardly |
| credibility | believability |
| credo | creed |
| creed | system of religious or ethical belief |
| crescendo | increase in the volume or intensity |
| crest | highest point of a hill; foamy top of a wave |
| crestfallen | dejected; dispirited |
| crevice | crack; fissure |
| cringe | shrink back, as if in fear |
| crop | cut off unwanted parts of a photograph; graze |
| crotchety | eccentric |
| crux | crucial point |
| crypt | secret recess or vault, unually used for burial |
| cubicle | small compartment partitioned off; small bedchamber |
| cuisine | style of cooking |
| culinary | relating to cooking |
| cull | pick out; reject |
| culminate | attain the highest point; climax |
| culvert | artificial channel for water |
| cumbersome | heavy; hard to manage |
| cumulative | growing by addition |
| cupidity | greed |
| curator | superintendent; manager |
| curmudgeon | churlish, miserly individual |
| cursive | flowing, running |
| cynical | skeptical or distrustful of human motives |
| cynosure | the object of general attention |
| dabble | work at in a non-serious fashion; splash around |
| dais | raised platform for guests of honor |
| dank | damp |
| dapper | neat and trim |
| dappled | spotted |
| daub | smear( as with paint |
| daunt | intimidate; frighten |
| dauntless | bold |
| dawdle | loiter; waste time |
| deadlock | standstill; stalemate |
| dead pan | wooden; impersonal |
| dearth | scarcity |
| debacle | sudden downfall; complete disaster |
| debase | reduce in quality or value; lower in esteem; degrade |
| debauch | corrupt; seduce from virture |
| debonair | freindly; aiming to please |
| debris | rubble |
| debutante | youg woman making formal entrance into society |
| decadence | decay |
| decapitate | behead |
| decelerate | slow down |
