Vocabulary Builder C

660	cabal	n.	A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.
661	cabalism	n.	Superstitious devotion to one's religion.
662	cabinet	n.	The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
663	cacophony	n.	A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
664	cadaverous	adj.	Resembling a corpse.
665	cadence	n.	Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.
666	cadenza	n.	An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
667	caitiff	adj.	Cowardly.
668	cajole	v.	To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.
669	cajolery	n.	Delusive speech.
670	calculable	adj.	That may be estimated by reckoning.
671	calculus	n.	A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
672	callosity	n.	The state of being hard and insensible.
673	callow	adj.	Without experience of the world.
674	calorie	n.	Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade.
675	calumny	n.	Slander.
676	Calvary	n.	The place where Christ was crucified.
677	Calvinism	n.	The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin.
678	Calvinize	v.	To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism.
679	came	n.	A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
680	cameo	n.	Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
681	campaign	n.	A complete series of connected military operations.
682	Canaanite	n.	A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.
683	canary	adj.	Of a bright but delicate yellow.
684	candid	adj.	Straightforward.
685	candor	n.	The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
686	canine	adj.	Characteristic of a dog.
687	canon	n.	Any rule or law.
688	cant	v.	To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
689	cantata	n.	A choral composition.
690	canto	n.	One of the divisions of an extended poem.
691	cantonment	n.	The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
692	capacious	adj.	Roomy.
693	capillary	n.	A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
694	capitulate	v.	To surrender or stipulate terms.
695	caprice	n.	A whim.
696	caption	n.	A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc.
697	captious	adj.	Hypercritical.
698	captivate	v.	To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
699	carcass	n.	The dead body of an animal.
700	cardiac	adj.	Pertaining to the heart.
701	cardinal	adj.	Of prime or special importance.
702	caret	n.	A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
703	caricature	n.	a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted.
704	carnage	n.	Massacre.
705	carnal	adj.	Sensual.
706	carnivorous	adj.	Eating or living on flesh.
707	carouse	v.	To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
708	carrion	n.	Dead and putrefying flesh.
709	cartilage	n.	An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
710	cartridge	n.	A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
711	caste	n.	The division of society on artificial grounds.
712	castigate	v.	To punish.
713	casual	adj.	Accidental, by chance.
714	casualty	n.	A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
715	cataclysm	n.	Any overwhelming flood of water.
716	cataract	n.	Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness.
717	catastrophe	n.	Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity.
718	cathode	n.	The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
719	Catholicism	n.	The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church.
720	catholicity	n.	Universal prevalence or acceptance.
721	cat-o-nine-tails	n.	An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
722	caucus	n.	A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
723	causal	adj.	Indicating or expressing a cause.
724	caustic	adj.	Sarcastic and severe.
725	cauterize	v.	To burn or sear as with a heated iron.
726	cede	v.	To pass title to.
727	censor	n.	An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication.
728	censorious	adj.	Judging severely or harshly.
729	census	n.	An official numbering of the people of a country or district.
730	centenary	adj.	Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years.
731	centiliter	n.	A hundredth of a liter.
732	centimeter	n.	A length of one hundredth of a meter.
733	centurion	n.	A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army.
734	cereal	adj.	Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds.
735	ceremonial	adj.	Characterized by outward form or ceremony.
736	ceremonious	adj.	Observant of ritual.
737	cessation	n.	Discontinuance, as of action or motion.
738	cession	n.	Surrender, as of possessions or rights.
739	chagrin	n.	Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
740	chameleon	adj.	Changeable in appearance.
741	chancery	n.	A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
742	chaos	n.	Any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion.
743	characteristic	n.	A distinctive feature.
744	characterize	v.	To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities.
745	charlatan	n.	A quack.
746	chasm	n.	A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface.
747	chasten	v.	To purify by affliction.
748	chastise	v.	To subject to punitive measures.
749	chastity	n.	Sexual or moral purity.
750	chateau	n.	A castle or manor-house.
751	chattel	n.	Any article of personal property.
752	check	v.	To hold back.
753	chiffon	n.	A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
754	chivalry	n.	The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
755	cholera	n.	An acute epidemic disease.
756	choleric	adj.	Easily provoked to anger.
757	choral	adj.	Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
758	Christ	n.	A title of Jesus
759	christen	v.	To name in baptism.
760	Christendom	n.	That part of the world where Christianity is generally professed.
761	chromatic	adj.	Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
762	chronology	n.	The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events.
763	chronometer	n.	A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.
764	cipher	v.	To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing)
765	circulate	v.	To disseminate.
766	circumference	n.	The boundary-line of a circle.
767	circumlocution	n.	Indirect or roundabout expression.
768	circumnavigate	v.	To sail quite around.
769	circumscribe	v.	To confine within bounds.
770	circumspect	adj.	Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration.
771	citadel	n.	Any strong fortress.
772	cite	v.	To refer to specifically.
773	claimant	n.	One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
774	clairvoyance	n.	Intuitive sagacity or perception.
775	clamorous	adj.	Urgent in complaint or demand.
776	clan	n.	A tribe.
777	clandestine	adj.	Surreptitious.
778	clangor	n.	Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor.
779	clarify	v.	To render intelligible.
780	clarion	n.	A small shrill trumpet or bugle.
781	classify	v.	To arrange in a class or classes on the basis of observed resemblance’s and differences.
782	clearance	n.	A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.
783	clemency	n.	Mercy.
784	clement	adj.	Compassionate.
785	close-hauled	adj.	Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
786	clothier	n.	One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
787	clumsy	adj.	Awkward of movement.
788	coagulate	v.	To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment.
789	coagulant	adj.	Producing coagulation.
790	coalescence	n.	The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
791	coalition	n.	Combination in a body or mass.
792	coddle	v.	To treat as a baby or an invalid.
793	codicil	n.	A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
794	coerce	v.	To force.
795	coercion	n.	Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
796	coercive	adj.	Serving or tending to force.
797	cogent	adj.	Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience.
798	cognate	adj.	Akin.
799	cognizant	adj.	Taking notice.
800	cohere	v.	To stick together.
801	cohesion	n.	Consistency.
802	cohesive	adj.	Having the property of consistency.
803	coincide	v.	To correspond.
804	coincidence	n.	A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident.
805	coincident	adj.	Taking place at the same time.
806	collaborate	v.	To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits.
807	collapse	v.	To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail.
808	collapsible	adj.	That may or can collapse.
809	colleague	n.	An associate in professional employment.
810	collective	adj.	Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
811	collector	n.	One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
812	collegian	n.	A college student.
813	collide	v.	To meet and strike violently.
814	collier	n.	One who works in a coal-mine.
815	collision	n.	Violent contact.
816	colloquial	adj.	Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
817	colloquialism	n.	Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation.
818	colloquy	n.	Conversation.
819	collusion	n.	A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
820	colossus	n.	Any strikingly great person or object.
821	comely	adj.	Handsome.
822	comestible	adj.	Fit to be eaten.
823	comical	adj.	Funny.
824	commemorate	v.	To serve as a remembrance of.
825	commentary	n.	A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work.
826	commingle	v.	To blend.
827	commissariat	n.	The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
828	commission	v.	To empower.
829	commitment	n.	The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping.
830	committal	n.	The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being
831	commodity	n.	Something that is bought and sold.
832	commotion	n.	A disturbance or violent agitation.
833	commute	v.	To put something, especially something less severe, in place of.
834	comparable	adj.	Fit to be compared.
835	comparative	adj.	Relative.
836	comparison	n.	Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
837	compensate	v.	To remunerate.
838	competence	n.	Adequate qualification or capacity.
839	competent	adj.	Qualified.
840	competitive	adj.	characterized by rivalry.
841	competitor	n.	A rival.
842	complacence	n.	Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings.
843	complacent	adj.	Pleased or satisfied with oneself.
844	complaisance	n.	Politeness.
845	complaisant	adj.	Agreeable.
846	complement	v.	To make complete.
847	complex	adj.	Complicated.
848	compliant	adj.	Yielding.
849	complicate	v.	To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with.
850	complication	n.	An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner.
851	complicity	n.	Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer.
852	compliment	v.	To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise.
853	component	n.	A constituent element or part.
854	comport	v.	To conduct or behave (oneself).
855	composure	n.	Calmness.
856	comprehensible	adj.	Intelligible.
857	comprehension	n.	Ability to know.
858	comprehensive	adj.	Large in scope or content.
859	compress	v.	To press together or into smaller space.
860	compressible	adj.	Capable of being pressed into smaller compass.
861	compression	n.	Constraint, as by force or authority.
862	comprise	v.	To consist of.
863	compulsion	n.	Coercion.
864	compulsory	adj.	Forced.
865	compunction	n.	Remorseful feeling.
866	compute	v.	To ascertain by mathematical calculation.
867	concede	v.	To surrender.
868	conceit	n.	Self-flattering opinion.
869	conceive	v.	To form an idea, mental image or thought of.
870	concerto	n.	A musical composition.
871	concession	n.	Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim.
872	conciliate	v.	To obtain the friendship of.
873	conciliatory	adj.	Tending to reconcile.
874	conclusive	adj.	Sufficient to convince or decide.
875	concord	n.	Harmony.
876	concordance	n.	Harmony.
877	concur	v.	To agree.
878	concurrence	n.	Agreement.
879	concurrent	adj.	Occurring or acting together.
880	concussion	n.	A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
881	condensation	n.	The act or process of making dense or denser.
882	condense	v.	To abridge.
883	condescend	v.	To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors.
884	condolence	n.	Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune.
885	conduce	v.	To bring about.
886	conducive	adj.	Contributing to an end.
887	conductible	adj.	Capable of being conducted or transmitted.
888	conduit	n.	A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid.
889	confectionery	n.	The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
890	confederacy	n.	A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid.
891	confederate	n.	One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement.
892	confer	v.	To bestow.
893	conferee	n.	A person with whom another confers.
894	confessor	n.	A spiritual advisor.
895	confidant	n.	One to whom secrets are entrusted.
896	confide	v.	To reveal in trust or confidence.
897	confidence	n.	The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another.
898	confident	adj.	Assured.
899	confinement	n.	Restriction within limits or boundaries.
900	confiscate	v.	To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury.
901	conflagration	n.	A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like.
902	confluence	n.	The place where streams meet.
903	confluent	n.	A stream that unites with another.
904	conformance	n.	The act or state or conforming.
905	conformable	adj.	Harmonious.
906	conformation	n.	General structure, form, or outline.
907	conformity	n.	Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
908	confront	v.	To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles.
909	congeal	v.	To coagulate.
910	congenial	adj.	Having kindred character or tastes.
911	congest	v.	To collect into a mass.
912	congregate	v.	To bring together into a crowd.
913	coniferous	adj.	Cone-bearing trees.
914	conjecture	n.	A guess.
915	conjoin	v.	To unite.
916	conjugal	adj.	Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons.
917	conjugate	adj.	Joined together in pairs.
918	conjugation	n.	The state or condition of being joined together.
919	conjunction	n.	The state of being joined together, or the things so joined.
920	connive	v.	To be in collusion.
921	connoisseur	n.	A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art.
922	connote	v.	To mean; signify.
923	connubial	adj.	Pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
924	conquer	v.	To overcome by force.
925	consanguineous	adj.	Descended from the same parent or ancestor.
926	conscience	n.	The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct.
927	conscientious	adj.	Governed by moral standard.
928	conscious	adj.	Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks.
929	conscript	v.	To force into military service.
930	consecrate	v.	To set apart as sacred.
931	consecutive	adj.	Following in uninterrupted succession.
932	consensus	n.	A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons.
933	conservatism	n.	Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things.
934	conservative	adj.	Adhering to the existing order of things.
935	conservatory	n.	An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation.
936	consign	v.	To entrust.
937	consignee	n.	A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.
938	consignor	n.	One who entrusts.
939	consistency	n.	A state of permanence.
940	console	v.	To comfort.
941	consolidate	v.	To combine into one body or system.
942	consonance	n.	The state or quality of being in accord with.
943	consonant	adj.	Being in agreement or harmony with.
944	consort	n.	A companion or associate.
945	conspicuous	adj.	Clearly visible.
946	conspirator	n.	One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose.
947	conspire	v.	To plot.
948	constable	n.	An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
949	constellation	n.	An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.
950	consternation	n.	Panic.
951	constituency	n.	The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
952	constituent	n.	One who has the right to vote at an election.
953	constrict	v.	To bind.
954	consul	n.	An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
955	consulate	n.	The place in which a consul transacts official business.
956	consummate	v.	To bring to completion.
957	consumption	n.	Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc.
958	consumptive	adj.	Designed for gradual destruction.
959	contagion	n.	The communication of disease from person to person.
960	contagious	adj.	Transmitting disease.
961	contaminate	v.	To pollute.
962	contemplate	v.	To consider thoughtfully.
963	contemporaneous	adj.	Living, occurring, or existing at the same time.
964	contemporary	adj.	Living or existing at the same time.
965	contemptible	adj.	Worthy of scorn or disdain.
966	contemptuous	adj.	Disdainful.
967	contender	n.	One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry.
968	contiguity	n.	Proximity.
969	contiguous	adj.	Touching or joining at the edge or boundary.
970	continence	n.	Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion.
971	contingency	n.	Possibility of happening.
972	contingent	adj.	Not predictable.
973	continuance	n.	Permanence.
974	continuation	n.	Prolongation.
975	continuity	n.	Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development.
976	continuous	adj.	Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
977	contort	v.	To twist into a misshapen form.
978	contraband	n.	Trade forbidden by law or treaty.
979	contradiction	n.	The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said.
980	contradictory	adj.	Inconsistent with itself.
981	contraposition	n.	A placing opposite.
982	contravene	v.	To prevent or obstruct the operation of.
983	contribution	n.	The act of giving for a common purpose.
984	contributor	n.	One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
985	contrite	adj.	Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
986	contrivance	n.	The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
987	contrive	v.	To manage or carry through by some device or scheme.
988	control	v.	To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
989	controller	n.	One who or that which regulates or directs.
990	contumacious	adj.	Rebellious.
991	contumacy	n.	Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
992	contuse	v.	To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
993	contusion	n.	A bruise.
994	convalesce	v.	To recover after a sickness.
995	convalescence	n.	The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
996	convalescent	adj.	Recovering health after sickness.
997	convene	v.	To summon or cause to assemble.
998	convenience	n.	Fitness, as of time or place.
999	converge	v.	To cause to incline and approach nearer together.
1000	convergent	adj.	Tending to one point.
1001	conversant	adj.	Thoroughly informed.
1002	conversion	n.	Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another.
1003	convertible	adj.	Interchangeable.
1004	convex	adj.	Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle.
1005	conveyance	n.	That by which anything is transported.
1006	convivial	adj.	Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking.
1007	convolution	n.	A winding motion.
1008	convolve	v.	To move with a circling or winding motion.
1009	convoy	n.	A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation.
1010	convulse	v.	To cause spasms in.
1011	convulsion	n.	A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body.
1012	copious	adj.	Plenteous.
1013	coquette	n.	A flirt.
1014	cornice	n.	An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling.
1015	cornucopia	n.	The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity.
1016	corollary	n.	A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration.
1017	coronation	n.	The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch.
1018	coronet	n.	Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign.
1019	corporal	adj.	Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
1020	corporate	adj.	Belonging to a corporation.
1021	corporeal	adj.	Of a material nature; physical.
1022	corps	n.	A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together.
1023	corpse	n.	A dead body.
1024	corpulent	adj.	Obese.
1025	corpuscle	n.	A minute particle of matter.
1026	correlate	v.	To put in some relation of connection or correspondence.
1027	correlative	adj.	Mutually involving or implying one another.
1028	corrigible	adj.	Capable of reformation.
1029	corroborate	v.	To strengthen, as proof or conviction.
1030	corroboration	n.	Confirmation.
1031	corrode	v.	To ruin or destroy little by little.
1032	corrosion	n.	Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
1033	corrosive	n.	That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
1034	corruptible	adj.	Open to bribery.
1035	corruption	n.	Loss of purity or integrity.
1036	cosmetic	adj.	Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion.
1037	cosmic	adj.	Pertaining to the universe.
1038	cosmogony	n.	A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
1039	cosmography	n.	The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology.
1040	cosmology	n.	The general science of the universe.
1041	cosmopolitan	adj.	Common to all the world.
1042	cosmopolitanism	n.	A cosmopolitan character.
1043	cosmos	n.	The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement.
1044	counter-claim	n.	A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff.
1045	counteract	v.	To act in opposition to.
1046	counterbalance	v.	To oppose with an equal force.
1047	countercharge	v.	To accuse in return.
1048	counterfeit	adj.	Made to resemble something else.
1049	counterpart	n.	Something taken with another for the completion of either.
1050	countervail	v.	To offset.
1051	counting-house	n.	A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
1052	countryman	n.	A rustic.
1053	courageous	adj.	Brave.
1054	course	n.	Line of motion or direction.
1055	courser	n.	A fleet and spirited horse.
1056	courtesy	n.	Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
1057	covenant	n.	An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
1058	covert	adj.	Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
1059	covey	n.	A flock of quails or partridges.
1060	cower	v.	To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
1061	coxswain	n.	One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer.
1062	crag	n.	A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge.
1063	cranium	n.	The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain.
1064	crass	adj.	Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
1065	craving	n.	A vehement desire.
1066	creak	n.	A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
1067	creamery	n.	A butter-making establishment.
1068	creamy	adj.	Resembling or containing cream.
1069	credence	n.	Belief.
1070	credible	adj.	Believable.
1071	credulous	adj.	Easily deceived.
1072	creed	n.	A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief.
1073	crematory	adj.	A place for cremating dead bodies.
1074	crevasse	n.	A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier.
1075	crevice	n.	A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces.
1076	criterion	n.	A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion.
1077	critique	n.	A criticism or critical review.
1078	crockery	n.	Earthenware made from baked clay.
1079	crucible	n.	A trying and purifying test or agency.
1080	crusade	n.	Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle.
1081	crustacean	adj.	Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc.
1082	crustaceous	adj.	Having a crust-like shell.
1083	cryptogram	n.	Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.
1084	crystallize	v.	To bring together or give fixed shape to.
1085	cudgel	n.	A short thick stick used as a club.
1086	culinary	adj.	Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen.
1087	cull	v.	To pick or sort out from the rest.
1088	culpable	adj.	Guilty.
1089	culprit	n.	A guilty person.
1090	culvert	n.	Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
1091	cupidity	n.	Avarice.
1092	curable	adj.	Capable of being remedied or corrected.
1093	curator	n.	A person having charge as of a library or museum.
1094	curio	n.	A piece of bric-a-brac.
1095	cursive	adj.	Writing in which the letters are joined together.
1096	cursory	adj.	Rapid and superficial.
1097	curt	adj.	Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.
1098	curtail	v.	To cut off or cut short.
1099	curtsy	n.	A downward movement of the body by bending the knees.
1100	cycloid	adj.	Like a circle.
1101	cygnet	n.	A young swan.
1102	cynical	adj.	Exhibiting moral skepticism.
1103	cynicism	n.	Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value.
1104	cynosure	n.	That to which general interest or attention is directed.