B, C - Words

1. bane
   something causing misery or death
2. bashful
   self-consciously timid
3. beguile
   influence by slyness
4. bereft
   sorrowful through loss or deprivation
5. blandishment
   flattery intended to persuade
6. bilk
   cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
7. bombastic
   ostentatiously lofty in style
8. cajole
   influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
9. callous
   emotionally hardened
10. calumny
    a false accusation of an offense
11. camaraderie
    the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
12. candor
    the quality of being honest and straightforward
13. capitulate
    surrender under agreed conditions
14. carouse
    engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
15. carp
    any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
16. caucus
    meet to select a candidate or promote a policy
17. cavort
    play boisterously
18. circumlocution
    an indirect way of expressing something
19. circumscribe
    draw a geometric figure around another figure
20. circumvent
    surround so as to force to give up
21. clamor
    utter or proclaim insistently and noisily
22. cleave
    separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
23. cobbler
    a person who makes or repairs shoes
24. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
25. cognizant
    having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization
26. commensurate
    corresponding in size or degree or extent
27. complement
    something added to embellish or make perfect
28. compunction
    a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed
29. concomitant
    following or accompanying as a consequence
30. conduit
    a passage through which water or electric wires can pass
31. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
32. congruity
    the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
33. connive
    form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
34. consign
    give over to another for care or safekeeping
35. constituent
    one of the individual parts making up a composite entity
36. construe
    make sense of; assign a meaning to
37. contusion
    an injury in which the skin is not broken
38. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
39. contentious
    showing an inclination to disagree
40. contravene
    go against, as of rules and laws
41. convivial
    occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
42. corpulence
    the property of excessive fatness
43. covet
    wish, long, or crave for
44. cupidity
    extreme greed for material wealth