circuit | the regular journey around a territory by a person performing duties. | |
circuitous | roundabout components. | |
circumference | lit. a line carried around; the outer boundary line around a circular area. | |
circumlocution | a roundabout way of saying something. | |
circumnavigate | to sail around. | |
circumscribe | lit. to write a line around the bounds; to limit; to confine. | |
circumspect | cautious; carefur to consider possible consequences. | |
circumstance | lit. something standing around; a fact or event accompanying another fact or event. | |
circumvent | lit. to come around; to get around or to overcome by artful manuvering; to prevent. | |
coherent | lit. sticking together; having an orderly relation of parts. | |
collaborate | to labor together. | |
collusion | lit. playing together; a secret agreement between two or more persons for a deceitful purpose. | |
commensurate | lit. measured together; equal in measure or size; proportionate. | |
commiserate | to sympathize. | |
commotion | people moving together; social disorder. | |
complicate | lit. to fold together; to make intricate or involved. | |
composition | a putting together of parts to form a whole. | |
compunction | lit. a prick of conscience; an uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt; a slight regret. | |
condone | to forgive or overlook (an offense) | |
congenital | lit. born together; existing at birth. | |
consensus | lit. a feeling together; general agreement. | |
consummate | lit. summed up together; completer or perfect in every respect. | |
contemporary | lit. together in time; belonging to the same age. | |
convene | to come together formally. | |
convivial | fond of eating, drinking, and being sociable together. | |
correlate | to relate together; to show relationship. | |
credence | belief; acceptance as true. | |
credentials | documents that cause other to believe in one. | |
credibility | trustworthiness. | |
credible | believeable. | |
credit | trust, as financial credit; a source of honor, as a credit to one's family. | |
credulity | tendency too readily on too little evidence; gullibility. | |
credulous | believing too readily on too little evidence; gullible. | |
creed | a formal statement of religious or other belief, as the creed or church. | |
discredit | lit. not to believe; to distrust; to destroy belief in. | |
incredible | unbelievable. | |
incredulity | tendency to not believe readily; skepticism. | |
incredulous | not believing readily; disbelieving. | |
miscreant | originally, an unbeliever in religion; now, an evildoer or criminal. | |