| Word | Meaning with explanation. |
|---|---|
| Clasp | to hold someone or something in your hands or arms; catch |
| Clement | Clement weather is pleasant or not severe; Mild |
| Culmination | the point at which an event ends. |
| Clinched | to finally get or win something. |
| Cloistered | separated from and communicating little with the outside world; Isolated |
| Coarse | Rough and not smooth or soft. |
| Coddle | to protect and treat someone or something with great care. |
| Cogent | A cogent argument, reason etc is clearly expressed and persuade people to believe it. |
| Collate | to collect and arrange in correct order the shuts of a document. |
| Colloquial | informal and more suitable for use in speech. |
| Combustible | able to burn easily. |
| Commemorate | to show honour to the memory of an important person or event in special way. |
| Commotion | a sudden short period of noise, confusion or excited movement. |
| Compassion | a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for the suffering or bad luck of others and a wish to help them. |
| Compensate | to pay someone money in exchange for something. |
| Complacent | A feeling of calm satisfaction with your abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder. |
| Compliant | Willing to do what other people want you to do. (Submissive) |
| Conceited | too proud of yourself and your action and abilities. |
| Concocted | to invent a story or excuse, especially to achieve other’s. |
| Concurrence | a situation in which people agree or have the same opinion (Agreement) |
| Condone | to accept or allow behaviour that is wrong (Overlook) |
| Confine | to limit an activity, person or problem in some way. |
| Conflagration | A large fire that causes a lot of damage. |
| Congenial | Friendly and Pleasant (Cordial) |
| Congruent | Identical, Similar to or in agreement with something so that the two things can combined without |
| Congruous | the same as, or in agreement with, other facts or principles. |
| Conjecture | a guess about something based on how it seems and not on proof. (Guess) |
| Conjurer | A person who performs magic to show or entertain people (Magician) |
| Connote | If a word, object or situation connotes something it makes you think of a feeling that is more that its basic meaning. |
| Conscientious | putting a lot of effort into your work. |
| Conscript | to force someone to serve in an army or one of a country’s army forces. |
| Consternation | A feeling of worry, shock and confusion. (Dismay) |
| Constrain | to control and limit something. |
| Contemplate | to spend time considering a possible future action or to consider on particular thing for a long time in a serious and quiet way. |
| Contraband | Goods that are brought into or taken out of the country secretly and illegally. (Smuggled) |
| Contrary | the opposite |
| Contravene | to do something that a low or rule does not allow, or to break a law or rule (Breach) |
| Contrite | feeling very sorry and guilty for something bad that you have done. (Regretful) |
| Convalesce | to rest in order to get better after an illness. (Recover) |
| Converse | Talk |
| Copious | in a large amount , or more that enough. (Plentiful) |
| Covenant | A formal agreement or promise between two or more people. (Contract, Bond) |
| Crafty | Cunning, Clever especially in a dishonest or secret way. |
| Credulous | too willing to believe what you are told and so easy deceived. (Gullible) |
| Creep | to move slowly, quietly and carefully, usually in order to avoid being noticed. (Tiptoe) |
| Crescendo | a gradual increase in loudness, or the moment when noise or piece of music is at its loudest. (Escalation) |
| Cruddy | Dirty, unpleasant or of low quality. |
| Crude | Unrefined |
| Crumble | to break into small pieces. |
| Crusade | Religious wars, Campaign |
| Culmination | the point at which an event or series of events ends, having developed until it reached this point. |
| Cumbersome | Awkward because of being large, heavy or not effective. |
| Cupidity | A strong feeling of wanting to have something, especially money or possessions. |
| Inquisitive | Wanting to discover as much as you can about things, sometimes in a way that annoys people. |
| Cynicism | the belief that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere. |
| Dame | A women |
| Damp | Wet |
| Damsel | A young women who is not married. |
| Dearth | an amount or supply that is not large enough(Scarcity, Shortage.) |
| Debacle | A complete failure because of bad planning and organisation (Downfall) |
| Debonair | Attractive, confident and carefully dressed. |
| Decamp | to leave suddenly and unexpectedly, usually without telling anyone. |
| Decimated | to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely. |
| Declension | A group of noun or adjective that decline in the same way.
A situation in which a medical condition gets worse (Decay) |
| Decrepit | in a very bad condition because of being old or not having been cared for, or having been used a lot (Feeble) |
| Deference | Respect and Politeness. |
| Defiance | Behaviours in which you refuse to obey someone or something. (Resistance) |
| Defiant | Not willing to accept criticism or disapproval (Rebellious) |
| Defile | to spoil something or someone so that that thing or person is less beautiful or pure. (Corrupt) |
| Defy | to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation etc. (Repel) |
| Delineate | to describe or mark the edge of something (Explain) |
| Deluge | A very large amount of water/rain. (Flood) |
| Demented | Unable to thing or act clearly because you are extremely worried angry or excited by something. |
| Demise | the death of a person. |
| Demure | (especially of women) quiet and well behaved. (Sober) |
| Denouement | the end of a story in which everything is explained or the end result of a situation. (Climax) |
| Deplore | to say or think that something is very bad. |
| Derision | the situation in which someone or something is laughed at and considered stupid or of no values. (Ridicule) |
| Derogatory | Showing strong disapproval and not showing respect. (Disparaging) |
| Desiccated | Dried, with the moister removed. |
| Despair | the feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation. (Misery, Sad) |
| Despicable | very unpleasant or bad, causing strong feeling of dislike. |
| Despise | to feel a strong dislike because you think that that is bad or has no value. (Undervalue) |
| Despondent | unhappy and with no hope or enthusiasm (Dejected) |
| Desultory | without a clear plan or purpose and showing little effort or interest. (Frugal) |
| Deter | to prevent or discourage someone from doing something. (Hinder) |
| Detractor | Someone who criticizes something or someone often unfairly. |
| Detrimental | Causing harm or damage. (Harmful) |
| Devoid | be devoid of something.
to lack or be without something that is necessary or usual. |
| Devout | believing strongly in a religion and obeying all its rules and principles. (Pious) |
| Diffident | Shy and not confident of your abilities. |
| Dilate | to (cause a part of the body to ) become wider or further open to |
| Diligent | Careful and using a lot of effort. (Industrious) |
| Discern | to see, recognize or understand something that is not clear. (Identify) |
| Discreet | Careful not to cause embarrassment or attract too much attention, especially by keeping something secret. |
| Dishevelled | (of people or their appearance) very messy |
| Disparity | a lack of equalities or similarities especially in a way that is not fair. (Differences) |
