Vocabulary Words Starting With C

A harsh, jarring mixture of discordant sounds.

To persuade someone to do something through flattery or gentle, persistent coaxing.

Showing an insensitive and cruel disregard for others' feelings or suffering.

Truthful and straightforward; frank.

The quality of being open, honest, and straightforward in speech.

To surrender or give in to a demand, typically after resistance.

Prone to sudden, unpredictable changes in mood or behavior.

To hold someone's attention completely by being interesting, charming, or attractive.

To criticize or punish someone harshly.

A person or event that causes an important change or action to happen.

Providing a powerful release of built-up emotion that results in relief.

Bitterly sarcastic and cutting in tone; also, chemically corrosive.

A feeling of distress or embarrassment caused by failure or disappointment.

To criticize or scold someone sharply, usually for a fault or mistake.

The use of trickery or clever deception to achieve one's goals.

Careful and cautious, especially about weighing possible consequences before acting.

To find a clever way around an obstacle, rule, or difficulty.

Having or claiming to have the ability to perceive things beyond normal senses, especially future events.

To come together to form one single group, mass, or whole.

Clear, logical, and convincing.

Having knowledge or awareness of something.

Logically connected and easy to follow, so that all the parts make sense together.

To happen at the same time as something else, or to match up closely with it.

To work together with one or more people to produce or achieve something.

To begin or start, often in a formal way.

A raw material or basic good that can be bought, sold, or traded.

Showing deep concern for the suffering of others along with a genuine desire to help.

So interesting, powerful, or convincing that it demands your full attention or agreement.

Overly satisfied with oneself or one's situation, to the point of ignoring real risks.

To go well with something else, making it better or more complete.

Complete and including everything that is necessary or relevant to a subject.

To be made up of a certain number of parts, or to form the whole of something.

To reluctantly admit that something is true, or to give up a point, right, or advantage.

To form an idea or plan in your mind, or to imagine something as possible.

Intended to calm anger or settle a dispute; peace-making in tone.

Expressing what needs to be said clearly and briefly, with no wasted words.

Happening or existing at the same time as something else.

To accept or overlook behavior that is generally considered wrong, effectively allowing it to continue.

Creating favorable conditions that help produce a particular, usually positive, result.

To keep something or someone within set limits.

To act according to accepted standards, rules, or the behavior of a group.

Pleasant and friendly in a way that suits one's own tastes and makes one feel comfortable.

A general agreement reached by most or all members of a group.

To combine several things into one stronger, more unified, or more effective whole.

Very noticeable or easy to see, often standing out from the surroundings.

To be one of the parts that together make up or form a whole.

To severely limit the freedom or range of something.

To think about something carefully and seriously for a long time.

Likely to cause disagreement or argument; controversial.

To say or show the opposite of a statement, so both cannot be true together.

Feeling genuine guilt and regret for having done something wrong.

A confusing and difficult problem or question that has no easy answer.

To come together, or to call people together, for a formal meeting or gathering.

To come together from different directions toward the same point.

To communicate or make a feeling, idea, or piece of information understood by others.

Extremely complicated and difficult to follow, often with unnecessary twists.

Existing in a large quantity; abundant.

Warm, friendly, and polite in manner, especially in a formal or social setting.

To have a mutual relationship such that when one thing changes, the other tends to change too.

To provide supporting evidence that confirms a statement or theory is true.

To reduce or cancel out an effect by acting in the opposite way.

Capable of being believed because it seems honest, reliable, or well-supported.

Too ready to believe things without enough proof or skepticism.

A standard or principle used as the basis for judging, deciding, or evaluating something.

Extremely important because it strongly affects the outcome of something.

Deliberately mysterious or hard to interpret, hiding a clear meaning.

To reach a final, climactic point after a series of events or a period of development.

Deserving blame for a wrongful act or failure to act.

To develop or improve something carefully over time, or to prepare land and grow crops.

Increasing steadily as more things of the same kind are added to what came before.

Done quickly, without attention to detail; hasty and superficial.

To reduce or limit something, especially by cutting short its extent or duration.