| A | B |
|---|
| collaborate | work in partnership |
| collusion | secret agreement for a deceitful purpose |
| combustion | process of burning |
| commemorate | keep the memory of |
| commend | praise |
| commendable | worthy of praise |
| commingle | mingle together |
| commuter | person who travels regularly |
| complacently | with self-satisfaction |
| complaisance | tending to comply, obliging, willingness to please |
| comply | act in accordance |
| compound | mix or combine |
| comprise | be composed of |
| compunction | feeling of regret for one's action |
| conceal | hide, keep secret |
| conceit | over-high oponion of, too much pride |
| conciliatory | reconciling, soothing, comforting, mollifying |
| concord | agreement or harmony |
| concur | agree in opinion, happen together |
| condense | increase in density, strength, make laconic |
| condone | forgive |
| congeal | make or become stiff and solid |
| conjoin | to join together |
| connoisseur | a person with good judgement (eg. in art) |
| connotation | suggestion in addition to |
| consent | give aggreement or permission |
| consequential | pompous, self important |
| consolation | consoling or being consoled |
| consloe | give comfort of sympathy to |
| conspicuous | easily seen; remarkable |
| consternation | surprise and fear, dismay |
| constrict | make tight or smaller |
| consume | get to the end of |
| contemn | to scorn or despise |
| contentious | argumentative, pugnacious, combative, quarrelsome |
| contiguous | touching, neighnboring, near |
| contrite | filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing |
| contumacious | insubordinate, rebellious |
| conundrum | a riddle, dilemma, enigma |
| conviction | convincing; firm relief |
| convoke | call together; summon |
| convoluted | complicated; coiled; twisted |
| cord | twisted strands; measure of wood |
| cordial | warm and sincere |
| cordon | line (of police acting as a guard) |
| corporeal | physical; of or for the body |
| correlate | have a mutual relation |
| corroboration | additional, strengthening evidence |
| countenance | to favor or approve of |
| counterfeit | forgery |
| countervail | cuunterbalance |
| covert | disguised |
| covetous | eagerly desirous |
| cower | crouch, sink back |
| craven | cowardly |
| crease | line made by crushing; white line on the ground in cricket |
| credulity | too great a readiness to belive things |
| credulous | ready to believe things |
| crush | press, lose shape, subdue, overwhelm |
| cryptic | secret, with a hidden meaning |
| cumbersome | burdensome, heavy and awkward to carry |
| curmudgeon | bad-tempered person |
| curriculum | course of study |
| cursory | quick, hurried |
| curtail | make shorter than was planned |
| cynic | person who sees no good in anything |
| dart | quick movement; missile in darts |
| daunt | intimidate, make fearful |
| dawdler | person who is slow; waste of time |
| dearth | shortage |
| debacle | a breakup, overthrow, sudden disaster |
| decorous | polite, decent |
| decorum | propriety, properness |
| decree | order given by authority |
| decry | disapprove of |
| defer | postpone; give way (to show respect) |
| deference | respect |
| deferential | showing respect |
| defiance | open disobedience or resistance |
| deflect | turn aside |
| defy | resist openly |
| degrade | reduce in rank or status |
| delineate | to protray, depict, sketch out |
| deluge | great flood, heavy rush of water |
| demagogue | person appealing not to reasons |
| demur | to hesitate, raise objections |
| denigrate | blacken, belittle, sully, defame |
| denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
| denounce | give information against |
| dent | hollow, depression made by a blow |
| deplete | use until none remains |
| deposition | dethronement, depositing |
| deprave | make morally bad; corrupt |
| deprecate | protest against, express disproval of |
| dereliction | deserting and leaving to fall to ruins |
| derision | ridicule, mockery, deriding |
| derivative | derived, not original or primitive; unoriginal, obtained from another source |
| derogatory | insulitng; tending to damage |
| descry | catch sight of; see something in the distance |
| desiccant | substance used to absorb moisture |
