Difficult words: American English

• Cajole(kuh-johl): v., Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.
• callous (kal-uh s): adj., v., Emotionally hardened, heartless, unfeeling, uncaring, cold, cold-hearted.
  
• calumny (kal-uh m-nee): n., A false accusation of an offense.
• camaraderie(kah-muh-rah-duh-ree): n., The quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability.
• candor(kan-der): n., The quality of being honest and straightforward.
• capitulate (kuh-pich-uh-leyt): v., To surrender under agreed conditions.
• carouse(kuh-rouz): v., n., To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.
  
• carp(kahrp): v., n., Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae.
• caucus (kaw-kuh s): n., v., To meet, to select a candidate or promote a policy.
• cavort(kuh-vawrt): v., To play boisterously.