Cacaphony-Circuitous Flashcards
(29 cards)
Cadence
Rhythm
The rise and fall of sounds
Cacaphony
Harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds
Cajole
To persuade someone to do something he or he doesn’t want to do
Callow
Immature
Candor
Truthfulness
Sincere honesty
Capitalism
An economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens(not government) and in hitch the resulting products and services are sold with relatively little government control.
Capitulate
To surrender
To give up or give in
Capricious
Unpredictable
Likely to change at any moment
Caricature
A portrait or description thy is purposefully distorted or exaggerated, often to prove a point about its subject
Castigate
To criticize severely
To chastise
Catalyst
In chemistry: something that changes the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being changed
Anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it
Categorical
Unconditional
Absolute
Catharsis
Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal
Catholic
Universal
Embracing everything
Caustic
Like acid
Corrosive
Celibacy
Abstinence from sex
Censure
To condemn severely for doing something bad.
Cerebral
Brainy
Intellectually refined
Chagrin
Humiliation
Embarrassed disappointment
Charisma
A magical-seeming ability to attract followers and inspire loyalty
Charlatan
Fraud
Quack
Con-man
Chasm
A deep, gaping hole
A gorge
Chastise
To inflict punishment on
To discipline
Chicanery
Trickery
Deceitfulness
Artifice, especially legal or political
