4000 CPE Vocabulary List

cabal:
n. a small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests

cabinetmaker:
n. a woodworker who specializes in making furniture;

cacophonous:
a. discordant; inharmonious; sounding harsh; ill-sounding

cadaverous:
a. like a corpse; pale; Having appearance or color of dead human body

cadence:
n. rhythmic rise and fall of words or sounds; beat

cajole:
v. influence or urge by gentle urging or flattering

calamity:
n. the event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; disaster; misery

calculate:
v. compute; determine; estimate

caldron:
n. large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron

calibration:
n. adjustment; the process of checking a measuring instrument to see if it is accurate

calligraphy:
n. beautiful writing; excellent penmanship

callow:
a. youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers

calorific:
a. capable of producing heat; causing heat; heating

calumny:
n. false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation; slander

camaraderie:
n. good-fellowship; companionship; close friendship in friends or teammates

cameo:
n. piece of jewelry; a small scale used as a jewel for adornment; famous actor's special appearance in a minor role

cancellation:
n. act of canceling; calling off some arrangement

canker:
n. disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot; something evil that spreads through mind or society

cannibal:
n. a human being that eats human flesh; anything that devours its own kind

cannibalism:
n. the practice of eating the flesh of your kind