| A | B |
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| broadside | side of a ship above water;forceful verbal attack; advertisement/public notice |
| bulwark | wall or embankment raised as a defensive fortification; rampart; defense |
| Bushido, bushido | traditional code of the Japanese samurai, stressing honor, self-discipline, bravery, and simple living |
| cahoots | questionable collaboration; secret partnership |
| caliper | instrument consisting essentially of two curved hinged legs to measure thickness or distance |
| camarilla | a group of confidential, scheming advisers; a cabal |
| cannonade | to assualt with heavy artillery fire; harsh verbal or physical attack |
| cantonment | group of temporary billets for troops; permanent military installaton in India |
| carcanet | jeweled necklace, collar, or headband |
| carillon | stationary set of chromatically tuned bells in a tower played from a keyboard |
| cathexis | concentration of emotional energy on an object or idea |
| cavil | to find fault unnecessarily; raise trivial objections; quibble |
| censer | a vessel in which incenses is burned-especially in religious services |
| cession | a ceding or surrendering of territory to another country by treaty |
| chacma | grayish-black baboon |
| chancel | space around the altar of a church for the clergy and sometimes the choir sometimes enclosed by rail/lattice |
| chassé | ballet movement consisting of one or more quick, gliding steps with the same foot leading |
| cicatrix | a scar left by the formation of new connective tissue over a healing sore or wound |
| coaming | a raised rim or obrder around an opening, as in a ship's deck, designed to keep out water |
| coccygeal | relating to coccyx/tailbone |
| cocklebur | annual weeds of the genus Xanthium with small seedlike fruits with a prickly bur |
| cogitable | thinkable; conceivable |
| comfrey | any of various hairy perennial Eurasian herbs |
| concavity | state of being curved like the inner surface of a sphere |
| concinnity | harmony in the arrangement or interarrangement of parts with respect to a whole |
| concussive | violent jarring; a shock; injury to an organ |
| connate | existing at birth; inborn or inherent; in close accord or sympathy |
| contumelious | rudeness or contempt arising from arrogance |
| coparcenary | joint inheritance or heirship of property |
| cornice | horizontal molded projection that crowns or completes a bldg or wall. Molding at the top of the wall |
| coruscant | giving forth flashes of light; glittering |
| corvine | resembling or characteristice of crows |
