| A | B |
| cope | to deal with; to handle problems or difficulties |
| credentials | written evidenceshowing that a person has a right to a certain position or authority |
| culmination | the peak; the highest point; the climax |
| cumbersome | clumsy; unwieldly; hard to move |
| cynic | a person who believes that people act only from selfish motives; a scornful person |
| deficient | lacking some essential quality; defective; incomplete |
| defile | to make filthy or dirty; to corrupt |
| defraud | to take away or deprive of right of property by deceit; to swindle |
| demoralize | to undermine the confidence or morale of a person or group; to dishearten |
| denote | to be a sign of; to indicate; to signify; to mean explicitly |