| cavalcade | procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages; parade; CF. cavalry |
| cavalier | casual and offhand; arrogant; N: knight |
| cavil | quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily |
| cede | yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession |
| celerity | speed; rapidity |
| celestial | heavenly |
| celibate | abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy |
| cemetery | place for burying the dead |
| censor | (in ancient Rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census); person who eliminates inappropriate matter; V. |
| censorious | severely critical |
| censure | blame; criticize; express strong disapproval; N: severe criticism; strong disapproval |
| centaur | mythical figure, half man and half horse |
| centigrade | denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius) |
| centrifugal | radiating; departing from the center |
| centrifuge | machine that separates substances by whirling them |
| centripetal | tending toward the center |
| centurion | Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers) |
| cerebral | pertaining to the brain or intellect; intellectual rather than emotional; CF. cerebrum |
| cerebration | thought; working of the brain |
| ceremonious | marked by formality; extremely formal and polite; CF. ceremony: conventional social courtesy |
| certitude | certainty |
| cessation | stoppage |
| cession | yielding to another; ceding |
| chafe | warm by rubbing; make sore by rubbing; N. |
| chaff | worthless products of an endeavor; husk(outer seed cover) separated from grain; Ex. separate the wheat from the chaff |
| chaffing | bantering; joking |
| chagrin | annoyance and disappointment; vexation (caused by humiliation or injured pride) |
| chalice | goblet; consecrated cup |
| chameleon | lizard that changes color in different situations |
| champion | support militantly; fight for; N: person who fights for or supports strongly (a principle, movement, person, etc.) |
| championship | position of champion; defense or support; competition held to determine a champion |
| chancellor | legal official of high rank; CF. chancellery(chancellory): position of a chancellor |
| chant | tune(melody) in which a number of words are sung on the same note; V: sing (a chant); utter (a slogan) in the manner of a chant |
| chaotic | in utter disorder |
| chapel | small church (in a prison, college, or hospital) |
| chaperon | older person who accompanies and supervises a young unmarried woman |
| chaplain | clergyman attached to a chapel |
| char | make or become black by burning; reduce or be reduced to carbon or charcoal(black substance made by burning wood) by incomplete combustion |
| charisma | divine gift; great popular charm or appeal; magnetism |
| charlatan | quack; pretender to knowledge (esp. in medicine) |
| charm | quality of pleasing; amulet; action or formula thought to have magical power; spell; V: attract; cast a spell on; bewitch |
| chary | cautious; unwilling to take risks; sparing or restrained about giving; OP. bold |
| chase | ornament a metal surface by indenting; follow rapidly to catch |
| chasm | abyss; very deep crack |
| chassis | framework and working parts of an automobile; framework to which components are attached |
| chaste | morally pure; virginal; abstaining from illicit sexual acts; modest; simple (of a style of writing); not highly decorated; austere |
| chasten | discipline; punish in order to correct; CF. castigate |
| chastise | punish as by beating; criticize severely |
| chauvinist | blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group, cause, or sex; ADJ. chauvinistic; CF. chauvinism; Nicolas Chauvin |
| check | stop motion; curb or restrain |
| checkered(chequered) | marked by great changes in fortune; with many changes of fortuene; CF. checked: having a pattern of squares |
| cherubic | angelic; innocent-looking; N. cherub; CF. seraph: winged angel of the highest order |
| chicanery | trickery; deception |
| chide | scold; rebuke (someone who has done wrong) |
| chimerical | fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; N. chimera: unreal fancy; fire-breathing female creature |
| chip | lose a small piece from the surface or edge; N: small piece broken off something; CF. French fry; Potato chip/crisp |
| chisel | swindle or cheat; N: wedgelike tool for cutting |
| chivalrous | courteous; faithful; brave; N. chivalry |
| choice | delicate; of very fine quality |
| choir | group of people who sing together (esp. during religious services); place for choir |
| choleric | hot-tempered; bad-tempered; irritable; easily angered; CF. cholera |
| chore | daily domestic task (such as cleaning, cooking, and shopping); unpleasant task |
| choreography | art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances |
| chortle | chuckle with delight; N. |
| chorus | phrase repeated throughout a song or poem |
| chronic | long established as a disease |
| chronicle | report; record (in chronological order) |
| chuckle | laugh quietly |
| churlish | boorish; rude; N. churl: boor; yahoo |
| ciliated | having minute hairs; CF. cilium; CF. cilia: eyelash |
| cipher | nonentity; worthless person or thing; zero; secret code; V. |
| circlet | small ring; band of gold, silver, jewel, etc. (worn on the head, arms, or neck as decoration) |
| circuit | closed circular line around an area; circumference; regularly repeated journey from place to place |
| circuitous | roundabout |
| circumlocution | indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly) |
| circumscribe | limit; confine; draw a line around |
| circumspect | prudent; cautious; acting after careful thought |
| circumvent | outwit; defeat by behaving more cleverly; outsmart; baffle; avoid; get around |
| cistern | reservoir or water tank |
| citadel | fortress |
| cite | quote; commend; Ex. cited for bravery in an official record |
| civil | having to do with citizens; not military or religious; courteous and polite; Ex. married in a civil ceremony; Ex. civil strife/disorder/law; N. civility; CF. civic |
| clairvoyant | having foresight; fortuneteller; N. clairvoyance |
| clamber | climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble |
| clamor | loud continous noise; continuous demand or complaint made by a large number of people; V: make a clamor; express (a demand) continually and loudly; ADJ. clamorous |
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