| Sr No. | Word | शब्द | Meaning | Example |
| 457 | cabal | साज़िश | small group of persons secretly
united to promote their own interests | The cabal was defeated when its
scheme was discovered. |
| 458 | cache | कैश | hiding place | The detectives followed the
suspects until he led them to the cache where he had stored his loot. |
| 459 | cacophony | कोलाहल | discord | Some people seem to enjoy the
cacophony of an orchestra that is tuning up. |
| 460 | cadaver | शव | corpse | In some states, it is illegal to
dissect cadavers.
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| 461 | cadaverous | शव का | like a corpse; pale | From his cadaverous appearance,
we could see how the disease had ravaged him. |
| 462 | cadence | ताल | rhythmic rise and fall (of words
or sounds); beat | Marching down the road, the
troops sang out, following the cadence set by the sergeant. |
| 463 | cajole | झूठ बोलना | coax; wheedle | I will not be cajoled into
granting your wish. |
| 464 | calamity | आपदा | disaster; misery | As news of the calamity spread,
offers of relief poured in to the stricken community. |
| 465 | caliber | बुद्धि का विस्तार | ability; capacity | A man of such caliber should not
be assigned such menial tasks. |
| 466 | calligraphy | सुलेख | beautiful writing; excellent
penmanship | As we examine ancient
manuscripts, we became impressed with the calligraphy of the scribes. |
| 467 | callous | कठोर | hardened; unfeeling | He had worked in the hospital
for so many years that he was callous to the suffering in the wards. |
| 468 | callow | अनुभवहीन | youthful; immature | In that youthful movement, the
leaders were only a little less callow than their immature followers. |
| 469 | calorific | कैलोरिफिक | heat-producing | Coal is much more calorific than
green wood. |
| 470 | calumny | चुगली | malicious misrepresentation | He could endure his financial
failure, but he could not bear the calumny that his foes heaped upon him. |
| 471 | camaraderie | सौहार्द | good-fellowship | What he loved best about his job
was the sense of camaraderie he and his co-workers shared. |
| 472 | cameo | कैमिया | shell or jewel carved in relief | Tourists are advised not to
purchase cameos from the street peddlers of Rome who sell poor specimens of
the carver's art. |
| 473 | canard | बेबुनियाद ख़बर | unfounded rumor | It is almost impossible to
protect oneself from such a base canard. |
| 474 | candor | स्पष्टवादिता | frankness | The candor and simplicity of his
speech impressed all, it was all clear he held nothing back. |
| 475 | canine | कुत्ते का | related to dogs; doglike | Some days the canine population
of Berkeley seems almost to outnumber the human population. |
| 476 | canker | नासूर | any ulcerous sore; any evil | Poverty is a canker in the body
politic; it must be cured. |
| 477 | canny | चालाक | shrewd; thrifty | The canny Scotsman was more than
a match for the swindlers. |
| 478 | cant | खिचड़ी भाषा | pious phraseology; jargon of
criminals | Angry that the president had
slashed the education budget, we dismissed his speech on the importance of
education as mere cant. |
| 479 | cantankerous | झगड़ालू | ill-humored; irritable | Constantly complaining about his
treatment and refusing to cooperate with the hospital staff, he was a
cantankerous patient. |
| 480 | cantata | कंटाटा | story set to music, to be sung
by a chorus | The choral society sang the new
cantata composed by its leader. |
| 481 | canter | पाखंडी | slow gallop | Because the racehorse had
outdistanced its competition so easily, the reporter wrote that the race was
won in a canter. |
| 482 | canto | कंटो | division of a long poem | Dante's poetic masterpiece The
Divine Comedy is divided into cantos. |
| 483 | canvass | वोट मांगना | determine or seek opinions,
votes, etc. | After canvassing the sentiments
of his constituents, the congressman was confident that he represented the
majority opinion of his district. |
| 484 | capacious | विशाल | spacious | In the capacious areas of the
railroad terminal, thousands of travelers lingered while waiting for their
train. |
| 485 | capillary | केशिका | having a very fine bore | The changes in surface tension
of liquids in capillary vessels is of special interest to physicists. |
| 486 | capitulate | शर्त पर हथियार डाल देना | surrender | The enemy was warned to
capitulate or face annihilation. |
| 487 | caprice | मौज | whim | She was an unpredictable
creature, acting on caprice, never taking thought of the consequences. |
| 488 | capricious | मौजी | fickle; incalculable | The storm was capricious and
changed course constantly. |
| 489 | caption | शीर्षक | title; chapter heading; text
under illustration | I find the captions that
accompany these cartoons very clever and humorous. |
| 490 | captious | छिद्रान्वेषी | faultfinding | His criticisms were always
captious and frivolous, never offering constructive suggestions. |
| 491 | carafe | पिचर | glass water bottle | With each dinner, the patron
receives a carafe of red or white wine. |
| 492 | carapace | कछुवे की पीठ की हड्डी | shell covering the back (of a
turtle, crab, etc) | At the children's zoo, Richard
perched on top of the giant turtle's hard carapace as it slowly made its way
around the enclosure. |
| 493 | carat | कैरट | unit of weight for precious
stones; measure of fineness of gold | He gave her a diamond that
weighed three carats and was mounted in an eighteen-carat gold band. |
| 494 | carcinogenic | कासीनजन | causing cancer | Many supposedly harmless
substances have been revealed to be carcinogenic. |
| 495 | cardinal | कार्डिनल | chief | If you want to increase your
word power, the cardinal rule of vocabulary-building is to read. |
| 496 | careen | झुक जाना | lurch; sway from side to side | The taxicab careened wildly as
it rounded the corner. |
| 497 | caricature | कारटूनवाला | distortion; burlesque | The caricatures he drew always
emphasized personal weaknesses of the people he burlesqued. |
| 498 | carillon | Carillon | set of bells capable of being
played | The carillon in the bell tower
of the Coca-Cola pavilion at the New York World's Fair provided musical
entertainment every hour. |
| 499 | carnage | नरसंहार | destruction of life | The carnage that can be caused
by atomic warfare adds to the responsibilities of our statesmen. |
| 500 | carnal | कामुक | fleshly | The public was more interested
in carnal pleasures than in spiritual matters. |
| 501 | carnivorous | मांसभक्षी | meat-eating | The lion is a carnivorous
animal. |
| 502 | carousal | डटकर शराब पीना | drunken revel | The party degenerated into an
ugly carousal. |
| 503 | carping | छिद्रान्वेषी | petty criticism; fault-finding | Welcoming constructive
criticism, Lexy appreciated her editor's comments, finding them free of
carping. |
| 504 | carrion | सड़ा हुआ | rotting flesh of a dead body | Buzzards are nature's
scavengers; they eat the carrion left behind by other predators. |
| 505 | cartographer | काटोग्रफ़र | map-maker | Though not a professional
cartographer, Tolkien was able to construct a map of the fictional world. |
| 506 | cascade | झरना | small waterfall | We could not appreciate the
beauty of the many cascades as we made detours around each of them to avoid
getting wet. |
| 507 | caste | जाति | one of the hereditary classes in
Hindu society, social stratification; prestige | The differences created by caste
in India must be wiped out if true democracy is to prevail in that country. |
| 508 | castigation | सज़ा | punishment; severe criticism | Sensitive even to mild
criticism, Woolf could not bear castigation that she found in certain
reviews. |
| 509 | casual | आकस्मिक | accidental; not regular or
permanent; careless; informal | It can be argued that physical
laws can be casual as well as inveterate, since it is based on an induction. |
| 510 | casualty | दुर्घटना | serious or fatal accident | The number of automotive
casualties on this holiday weekend was high. |
| 511 | cataclysm | प्रलय | deluge; upheaval | A cataclysm such as the French
Revolution affects all countries. |
| 512 | catalyst | उत्प्रेरक | agent that brings about a
chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged | Many chemical reactions cannot
take place without the presence of a catalyst. |
| 513 | catapult | गुलेल | slingshot; hurling machine | Airplanes are sometimes launched
from battleships by catapults. |
| 514 | cataract | मोतियाबिंद | great waterfall; eye abnormality | She gazed with awe at the mighty
cataract known as Niagara Falls. |
| 515 | catastrophe | तबाही | calamity | The Johnstown flood was a
catastrophe. |
| 516 | catechism | जिरह | book for religious instruction;
instruction by question and answer | He taught by engaging his pupils
in a catechism until they gave him the correct answer. |
| 517 | categorical | स्पष्ट | without exceptions; unqualified;
absolute | Though the captain claimed he
was never, never sick at sea, he finally qualified his categorical denial; he
was hardly ever sick at sea. |
| 518 | catharsis | साफ़ हो जाना | purging or cleansing of any
passage of the body | Aristotle maintained that
tragedy created a catharsis by purging the soul of base concepts. |
| 519 | cathartic | भेदक | purgative | Some drugs act as laxatives when
taken in small doses but act as cathartics when taken in much larger doses. |
| 520 | catholic | कैथोलिक | universal; wide-ranging liberal | He was extremely catholic in his
taste and read everything he could find in the library. |
| 521 | caucus | कोकस | private meeting of members of a
party to select officers or determine policy | At the opening of Congress the
members of the Democratic Party held a caucus to elect the majority leader of
the House and the party whip. |
| 522 | caulk | गहनी करना | to make watertight (by plugging
seams) | When water from the shower
leaked into the basement, we knew it was time to caulk the tiles at the edges
of the shower stall. |
| 523 | causal | करणीय | implying a cause-and-effect
relationship | The psychologist maintained
there was a causal relationship between the nature of one's early childhood
experiences and one's adult personality. |
| 524 | caustic | काटू | burning; sarcastically biting | The critic's caustic remarks
angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm. |
| 525 | cauterize | दाग़ना | burn with hot iron or caustic | In order to prevent infection,
the doctor cauterized the wound. |
| 526 | cavalcade | घुड़सवार-दल | procession; parade | As described by Chaucer, the
cavalcade of Canterbury pilgrims was motley group. |
| 527 | cavalier | घुड़सवार | casual and offhand; arrogant | Sensitive about having her ideas
taken lightly, Marcia felt insulted by Mark's cavalier dismissal of her
suggestion. |
| 528 | cavil | झूठा इलज़ाम | make frivolous objections | I respect your sensible
criticisms, but I dislike the way you cavil about unimportant details. |
| 529 | cede | सौंपना | transfer; yield title to | I intend to cede this property
to the city. |
| 530 | celerity | ज्लदी | speed; rapidity | Hamlet resented his mother's
celerity in remarrying within a month after his father's death. |
| 531 | celestial | आकाशीय | heavenly | She spoke of the celestial joys
that awaited virtuous souls in the hereafter. |
| 532 | celibate | अविवाहित | abstaining from sexual
intercourse; unmarried | Though the late Havelock Ellis
wrote extensively about sexual customs and was considered an expert in such
matters, recent studies maintain he was celibate throughout his life. |
| 533 | censor | सेंसर | overseer of morals; person who
eliminates inappropriate matter | Soldiers dislike having their
mail read by a censor but understand the need for this precaution. |
| 534 | censorious | सख़्त | critical | censorious people delight in
casting blame. |
| 535 | censure | निंदा | blame; criticize | He was censured for his
inappropriate behavior. |
| 536 | centaur | सेंटो | mythical figure, half man and
half horse | I was particularly impressed by
the statue of the centaur in the Roman Hall of the museum. |
| 537 | centigrade | सेंटीग्रेड | denoting a widely used
temperature scale (basically same as Celsius) | On the centigrade thermometer,
the freezing point of water is zero degrees. |
| 538 | centrifugal | केंद्रत्यागी | radiating; departing from the
center | Many automatic drying machines
remove excess moisture from clothing by centrifugal force. |
| 539 | centrifuge | अपकेंद्रित्र | machine that separates
substances by whirling them | At the dairy, we employ a
centrifuge to separate cream from milk. |
| 540 | centripetal | केंद्राभिगामी | tending toward the center | Does centripetal force or the
force of gravity bring orbiting bodies to the earth's surface? |
| 541 | centurion | सेंचुरियन | Roman army officer | Because he was in command of a
company of one hundred soldiers, he was called a centurion. |
| 542 | cerebral | सेरिब्रल | pertaining to the brain or
intellect | The content of philosophical
works is cerebral in nature and requires much thought. |
| 543 | cerebration | मस्तिष्क का कार्य | thought | Mathematics problems sometimes
require much cerebration. |
| 544 | ceremonious | औपचारिक | marked by formality | Ordinary dress would be in
appropriate at so ceremonious an affair. |
| 545 | cessation | समाप्ति | stopping | The workers threatened a
cessation of all activities if their demands were not met. |
| 546 | cession | रियायत | yielding to another; ceding | The cession of Alaska to the
United States is discussed in this chapter. |
| 547 | chafe | मसलना | warm by rubbing | The collar chafed his neck. |
| 548 | chaff | फूस | worthless products of an
endeavor | When you separate the wheat from
the chaff, be sure you throw out the chaff. |
| 549 | chaffing | chaffing | bantering; joking | Sometimes his flippant and
chaffing remarks annoy us. |
| 550 | chagrin | चिढ़ | vexation; disappointment | Her refusal to go with us filled
us with chagrin. |
| 551 | chalice | प्याला | goblet; consecrated cup | In a small room adjoining the
cathedral, many ornately decorated chalices made by the most famous European
goldsmiths were on display. |
| 552 | chameleon | गिरगिट | lizard that changes color in
different situations | Like the chameleon, he assumed
the political coloration of every group he met. |
| 553 | champion | चैंपियन | support militantly | Martin Luther King, Jr., won the
Nobel Peace Prize because he championed the oppressed in their struggle for
equality. |
| 554 | chaotic | अराजक | in utter disorder | He tried to bring order into the
chaotic state of affairs. |
| 555 | charisma | प्रतिभा | divine gift; great popular charm
or appeal | Political commentators have
deplored the importance of a candidate's charisma in these days of television
campaigning. |
| 556 | charlatan | मायावी | quack; pretender to knowledge | When they realized that the
Wizard didn't know how to get them back to Kansas, Dorothy and her friends
were sure they'd been duped by a charlatan. |
