Vocabulary English-English With C Part 5
Corporate (adjective)
being a commercial organization
- Corporate interviewers are looking for applicants who display purpose and commitment to their future occupation.
Corpse (noun)
the physical frame of a dead person or animal
- Zurbaran attempted to capture the fact that it is a corpse by painting a somewhat frightening face.
Correlate (verb)
to come or bring together in one’s mind or imagination
- One of his students found that scores on these tests did not correlate with class standing among undergraduates at Columbia University.
Corrode (verb)
to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing; especially : to wear away gradually usually by chemical action; to weaken or destroy gradually : to undermine
- CO2 might corrode concrete plugs meant to seal wells.
Costume (noun)
clothes or other personal effects, such as make-up, worn to conceal one’s identity
- To celebrate Halloween, children dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for candy.
Counterpart (noun)
something possessing the same or almost the same characteristics as something else
- In Roman mythology, Mercury is the god of commerce, travel, and thievery, the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the Gods.
Countless (adjective)
too great to be calculated
- Indeed, fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident has turned up in ice cores, as has dust from violent desert storms countless millennia ago.
Coupe (noun)
a 2-door automobile often seating only two persons; also : one with a tightly spaced rear seat
- The Corvette Coupe, from the United States, is a popular sports car.
Covet (verb)
characterized as having an inordinate desire for what belongs to another
- He is the only art critic to have twice won America's most coveted award for art criticism, the Frank Jewett Mather Award, given by the College Art Association.
Cowhand (noun)
a cowboy; one who tends cows
- In the 1800's, some worked as cowhands on ranches in Montana, during which they experienced devastating snowstorms and temperatures as cold as -40 F.
Crack (noun)
to undergo partial breaking
- A small pebble caused a crack in the windshield.
Cradle (noun)
a place in which a thing begins or is nurtured in its infancy
- Ancient Greece, once the cradle of Western culture, is responsible for many of the moral and scientific concepts that exist today.
Cramp (verb)
to be retrained or confined
- The Scots fought from a better position and the English were too cramped for space to use their superior numbers.
Cranium (noun)
skull; the part of the head that encloses the brain
- It was believed in the nineteenth that bumps on a person’s cranium revealed his or her personality.
Cratered (verb)
to exhibit bowl-shaped depressions caused by the impact of a meteorite
- Mercury is in many ways similar to the Moon: its surface is heavily cratered and very old.
Creaking (verb)
a prolonged grating or squeaking sound
- Yards creaking and making groaning sounds can be early warnings of slope failure.
Cremate (verb)
to reduce a dead body to ashes by burning
- His last wish before he died was to be cremated and have his ashes spread over the Pacific Ocean.
Crevice (noun)
a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack
- Found in waters all over the earth, octopuses like to hide in rocks and crevices and can squeeze into tiny holes, as they have no bones.
Criterion (noun)
a standard of comparison
- In order for doctors to know whether or not a baby is normal, there are certain criteria or standards of judgment, but individual babies will vary somewhat from these standards.
Critique (noun)
evaluative and critical discourse
- William Faulkner was a keen critique of the literature of his time.
Crucial (adjective)
so serious as to be at the point of crisis
- The sociological perspective is crucial for working in today's multiethnic and multinational business environment.
Crude (adjective)
in a natural state and still not prepared for use
- Crude oil needs to be refined before it can be used for automobile consumption.
Crumple (verb)
to make irregular folds in, especially by pressing or twisting; to be unable to hold up
- The front and rear ends of an automobile are designed to crumple during a collision.
Crushing (verb)
pressing forcefully so as to break up into pulpy mass
- The core thus begins to fuse helium into carbon to make enough energy to maintain its balance with the crushing force of gravity.
Crustal (adjective)
relating to the outer exterior of the earth consisting of rock
- Tectonic earthquakes are a particular kind of earthquake that are associated with the earth's crustal deformation; when these earthquakes occur beneath the sea, the water above the deformed area is displaced from its equilibrium position.
Crystallized (adjective)
formed with a clear colorless rock
- Diamond is the name given to the crystallized form of the element Carbon.
Cull (noun)
something rejected especially as being inferior or worthless
- Animal activists are angry about the kangaroo cull.
Cultivate (verb)
to prepare or prepare and use for something
- The proposal focused on a laboratory procedure designed to create embryos to cultivate their stem cells, which are master cells that can potentially grow into any type of human tissue.
Cumulative (adjective)
increasing, as in force, by successive additions
- Scientific knowledge is not absolute, but cumulative in that new facts are constantly being added while old facts are discarded.
Curio (adjective)
something such as a decorative object considered novel, rare, or bizarre
- A further one million are fished for the curio trade because seahorses retain their shape and color when dried.
Current (noun)
occurring in or belonging to the present time
- Although the three currents discussed so far in 20th century painting may also be found in sculpture, the parallelism should not be overstressed.
Curve (verb)
having bends, curves, or angles; deviating from a straight line
- Unstable areas may sometimes be identified by trees or telephone poles tilted at odd angles, or by curved tree trunks.
Cyclical (adjective)
of, relating to, or being an interval of time during which a sequence of a recurring succession of events or phenomena is completed
- The one thing we don't know is whether it will be cyclical, whether it will occur seasonally.
Cylinder (adjective)
the surface traced by a straight line moving parallel to a fixed straight line and intersecting a fixed curve.
- The long cylinders of ancient ice that they retrieve provide a dazzlingly detailed record of what was happening in the world over the past several ice ages.
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