From Cache to Cynosure

Cache – storehouse of weapons
Cadaver - corpse
Cadence – rise and fall of sound, tempo, rhythm, pace, intonation, modulation, tone
Cadge – steal, sneak, take, beg, get away with
Callous – rude, coldhearted, uncaring, unsympathetic, pitiless, thick-skinned
Calorific – causing heat, fattening, high energy, high in calories
Cameo – biography, character part, small part, cameo role
Canard – a false report, fiction, fable
Canker – deadening tissue, scourge, blight, pest, menace, bane
Cant – hypocrisy, insincerity, false piety, humbug,
Cantankerous – complaining, irritable, tetchy, belligerent, grouchy
As people didn’t know the thousands of corpses that changed into carrion and finally soiled, the cache of Maoist weapons is also unknown. The callous killings of the people haven’t been ended though some canards have been submitted and cameo of peace have been played. The canker of war has been more calorific that has got further celerity due to the cant of the demagogues. The cantankerous leaders have again come to canvass for winning the election. They will cadge the sovereignty of the people with their cadences.
Canter – gallop, run, trot, jog, sprint
Canvass – collect support, campaign, electioneer, solicit votes, survey, poll, test
Capitulate – surrender, give in, give up, cede, relent, yield, submit
Caprice – whim, impulse, quirk
Carafe – wine container, flask, decanter
Carapace – shell, case, exterior, sleeve, sheath
Careen – lurch, zigzag, stagger, wind, twist, crisscross, meander
Carillon – bells, doorbell, glockenspiel
Carnal - fleshy
Carousal – a merry drinking party
Carping – complaining, moaning, nit-picking, grousing, critical, discontented
Carrion – rotten after cadaver
Cataclysm – catastrophe, disaster, upheaval, calamity, debacle, tragedy, deluge
Catcall – shouting, jeer, hiss, boo, taunt, insult, mockery
Catechism – a religious book giving instruction, dialecticism
Caulk – adhesive
The capricious leaders are making canter to the houses of the people careening in poverty. The cataclysm of the war hasn’t got caulk. The carnal cataclysm have forced some of the aristocrats capitulate however they have been one at carousal. The demagogues have been catcalled some of the times; however they are just bravado and hypocrisy. Catechisms of the cadres and carillons of their guns have destroyed the very carapace of the innocent people. Now their houses have been full of carafe and cistern. Their films have not been censured even though they have been ceding the rights of the people. The centaur of leaders is making a merry-go-round.
Cavalier – arrogant, offhand, inconsiderate, haughty, casual, careless
Cavil – quibble, complain, carp, niggle
Cede – give in territory, relinquish, abandon
Celerity – speed, alacrity, haste, briskness
Censure – criticize, fault, reprimand, condemn, reproach, denounce, deprecation, scorn, contempt
Centaur – mythical creature
Centrifugal – eccentric, tending to move away from the center
Centrifuge – machine that separates, extractor or separator
Cerebration – thought
Centripetal – towards the center
Certitude – certainty
Cession - cede
Chafe – rub, scrape, abrade, annoy
Chaff – dust of wheat (joke –v)
Chaffing – bantering
Chagrin – not grin, annoyed, vexation
Chalice – a drinking vessel, goblet, glass, cup
Chameleon – volatile, color changing lizard
Chary – wary, cautious, suspicious, mindful
Chase – run after, cut indentation, emboss
Chasten – discipline, punish, reprimand, censure, castigate
Checkered – past life, checkered career
Cherubic – angelic, divine, holy
Chisel – tool, carve
Chivalrous – gallant, mannerly,
Choleric – bad-tempered
Chortle – chuckle
Churlish – rude, boorish, coarse, truculent, grumpy
Cipher – unimportant person, code
Circumvent – avoid, evade, dodge, thwart, elude
Cistern – tanker, reservoir, boiler
Clairvoyant – fortuneteller, telepathist, mind reader
Clamber – climb by crawling
The mountaineers clambered for two hours and establish a bivouac on the top.
Clamor – loud noise
Clangor – long noise
Clapper – tongue of bell
Clarion – brass, clear sounding
Communion – time to drink food in commemorating Christ, spiritual union
Clavicle – collarbone
Cleave – cut, slash, slice, smite, chop
Clemency – mercy, mildness, leniency, pity, harshness (antonym)
Climactic – climax, very exciting, most important
Clime – climate of a particular region
Clique – group, circle, faction, set, gang, elite
Cloister – monastery, convent,
Clout – influence, power, authority, sway, political clout
Cloying – syrupy, over-sweet, sticky, sugary, clean (antonym)
Coalesce – amalgamate
Coddle – pamper, mollycoddle, indulge, overprotect, cosset, fuss over, spoil, cocoon
Codicil – addition, supplement, appendix, postscript, rider
Cog – tooth, component, part, gear, mechanism
Cognizance – knowledge, understanding
Coiffure – hairstyle
Colander - strainer, sieve
Collate – triangulate, collect, gather, assemble,
Collateral – security, guarantee
Collation - a light meal, snacks, banquet, buffet, spread, feast
Colloquy – informal conversation, interaction
Colloquium – conference, seminar
Collusion – conspiracy, complicity, connivance
Comatose – in coma, deep sleep, unconscious
Comely – attractive
Commiserate - sympathize, pity, empathize, console
Complicity – collusion, connivance, participation, support
Comport – to behave in a particular way
Compunction – remorse, regret, scruple, reluctance, qualm
Concatenate – combine two strings to form a single one
Concede – admit, confess, grant, give in, allow, give up, forfeit
Conceit – self-importance, pride, vanity, smugness, snobbery, arrogance, modest (antonym)
Concerted – collaborative, mutual, solitary (antonym)
Conclave – private meeting, assembly, council, caucus
Concoct – to make food by mixing food items
Concur – agree, correspond, coincide, harmonize
Condescend
1. to do something below one’s position, deign
We had to wait almost an hour before he condescended to see us.
2. Bestow courtesies with superior year
The king condescended to grant ordinance to the friends of the condemned man.
Condign – condign punishment is the one that is appropriate to the crime
Condiment – a sauce etc. that is used to give flavor to food
Conduit – aqueduct, passageway for fluids
A person or organization that is used to pass things or information to other people or places
Conflagration – great fire
Conflate – to put two or more things together to make new things.
Confluence – the place where two rivers meet
Confound – to confuse
Congeal – coagulate, thicken
Congenial – pleasant and likeminded friends
Congenital – existing since birth
Conjure – practicing magic, summon devil, to perform magic tricks in order to entertain people, especially tricks using quick hand movements
Connivance – helping in doing something wrong, abet, accomplice,
The crime was committed with the connivance of police officer
Connubial – related to marriage, the relationship between husband and wife
He extended a connubial bliss.
Conscript – to make somebody join the armed forces, conscription
He was conscripted in army in 1939.
Consecrate
- To state officially in a religious ceremony that something is holy and can be used for religious purposes
- To make bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.
- To consecrate somebody means to state officially that somebody is now a priest
Conservatory – school of fine arts
Cosign
- Deliver officially
- To put somebody or something in order to get rid of it
What I didn’t want was to see mother consigned to an old peoples’ home
Consort – the husband or wife of a ruler
Construe – to understand the meaning of a word or sentence
Contempt – lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
Contend – to say that somebody is true in an argument
Contention – angry disagreement between people
Contiguous – adjoining, abutting, neighboring
Continence – the control of feeling especially of having sex
Contingent - a group of people representing a place or organization, contingent of peacekeepers
- Dependent on or conditional
Acceptance of the course is contingent on your examination result.
Contortions - twisting or distortions, gnarled
Contraband – illegal trade, trafficking, racketing
Contravene – contradict, oppose, transgress, infringe (the company was found guilty of contravening safety regulations
Contrite – penitent, remorseful, rueful, ruthful (her contrite tears did not influence the judge when he imposed sentence.
Contrived – forced, artificial, not spontaneous, planned in advance and not genuine (a contrived situation)
Contumacious – lacking respect for authority (the contumacious mob shouted defiantly at the police)
Contusion – an injury to part of the body that doesn’t break the skin, bruise
Convene – assemble
Convoke – call together, convocation
Conveyance – vehicle, transfer
Coquette – flirt, attracting sexually
Cornice – a decorative boarder around the top of the wall
Cornucopia – plethora of knowledge
Corrugated – shaped into a series of regular folds that look like waves
Countenance – face
Countermand – cancel earlier order or command
Cow – intimidate, to frighten somebody in order to make them obey
Cozen – cheat, swindle, hoodwink
Crabbed – sour, peevish, bad-tempered
Crass – insensitive, unrefined, grossly insensible
Very stupid and showing no sympathy and understanding
Credo – creed, belief
Crestfallen – disappointed, annoyed
Cringe – shrink back, as if in fear
Crone – an ugly old woman
Crypt – secret, mysterious, hidden
Cubicle – small chamber used for sleeping
Cull – to kill a number of animals to reduce its quantity
Culminate – attainment of highest position
Culpable – deserving blame
Cupidity – greed
Curmudgeon – churlish or miserly individual, bad tempered old man
Cynical – a person not caring that something might hurt other people, if their some advantage for him or her
Cynosure – object of general attention (he was a cynosure when he was at his teen).