cabal | small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests |
cacophonous | discordant; inharmonious; sounding harshly; ill-sounding |
cadaverous | like corpse; pale; Having appearance or color of dead human body |
cadence | rhythmic rise and fall of words or sounds; beat |
cajole | influence or urge by gentle urging or flattering |
calamity | event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; disaster; misery |
caldron | large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron |
calligraphy | beautiful writing; excellent penmanship |
callow | youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers |
calm | freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity |
calorific | capable of producing heat; causing heat; heating |
calumny | false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation; slander |
camaraderie | good-fellowship; companionship; close friendship in friends or teammates |
cameo | piece of jewelry; a small scale used as a jewel for adornment; famous actor's special appearance in a minor role in film |
camouflage | exploit natural surroundings to disguise something; conceal |
campaign | battle ;a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end |
canny | having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle; knowing; cautious; cunning; shrewd |
cantankerous | ill humored; irritable; marked by ill-tempered contradiction or opposition; ugly; malicious |
cantata | story or poem set to music that can be sung by chorus |
canter | slow gallop; moderate running pace of horse |
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