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• cacophony - harsh mixture of sounds
• capacious - spacious
• castigate - punish
• caustic - corrosive, sarcastic
• cerebral - intellectual
• chaff- worthless thing, husk of corn
• chicanery the use of deception
• chimerical - illusory, imagination
• compunction - feeling remorse
• concomitant - naturally accompanying
• coniferous - needle-like, scale-like
• conjecture - guess, speculation consternation, anxious, dismayed
• contentious - likely to cause argument
• contiguous - next, together
• contingent - subject to change
• convivial - friendly, lively
• corpulent - fat
• corroborate - confirm, verified
• craven - cowardly
• credulity - readiness to believe
• credulous - gullible, naive
• culpable - deserving blame
• curtail - to deprive, to reduce, dearth, scarcity