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carnage

"Amid the carnage resulting from the earthquake, many acts of courage can be seen." New York Times, 9/20/99

castigates

"Here is Holofernes commenting upon Armando, a mad wordman who castigates another while himself vocalizes into a fine frenzy." Harold Bloom, Shakespeare

catastrophic

"Romeo changes enormously under Juliet's influence, remains subject to anger and despair, and is as responsible as Mercutio and Tybalt for the catastrophic event." Harold Bloom, Shakespeare

caustic

"His habitual sullenness, stern disposition and caustic tongue produced a deep impression upon our young minds." Aleksandr Pushkin, "The Shot"

celerity

"The human mind acts at times with amazing celerity." Benjamin Cardozo, The Growth of the Law

cessation

"The evolutions of the waltzers were quieted, there was an uneasy cessation of all things as before." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death"

chagrin

"He spent great energy and achieved, to our chagrin, no small amount of success in keeping us away from the people who surrounded us." James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

charisma

"Yali radiated charisma and energy as he led his people." Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

charlatan

"Many of my friends believe in fortune tellers; I think they are charlatans." Letter to "Dear Abby," New York Daily News, 5/16/99

chicanery

"As a profession, lawyers have become associated with chicanery and confusion." People, 2/4/99

chimerical

"His utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practicable improvement on what already exists." George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty

clandestine

"Mr. DeLay's plan for another 'independent' group is nothing less than a proposal to create a clandestine and corrupt slush fund." Editorial, New York Times, 6/1/99

cliché

"The cliché 'Politics makes strange bedfellows' certainly applies in this situation." Newsweek, 9/20/99

cliques

"The tragic event points out the danger of forming cliques in school that shut out many." Newsday, 5/15/99

coerce

"The loan sharks sometimes have to coerce people in order to collect the debt." Peter Kilborn, "Lenders Thrive on Workers in Need," New York Times, 6/18/99

cogent

"This article paints a clear and cogent picture of how to handle blowouts." Car and Travel, 9/99

cognizant

"I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states." Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter From Birmingham Jail"

comely

"An island peopled by the most comely women to be seen anywhere, Bora Bora is a must." Travel, 11/99

commodious

"The new baseball stadium offered a more commodious arena for the fans and players." Sports Illustrated, 5/11/99

compassionate

"In addition to professional skills, patients want a physician who is compassionate." Advertisement for Maimonides Medical Center, 9/25/95

compatible

"The policies of the party are not compatible with his conservative

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beliefs." U.S. News and World Report, 8/25/99

compensatory

"The compensatory factor was a new arrival; Anukul had a son born to him." Rabindramath Tagore, "My Lord, the Baby"

complacent

"Weather experts warn not to be complacent about the possibility of a dangerous hurricane." New York, 9/18/95

complicity

"After 1945, Hitler's Germans replaced complicity with denial." Lance Morrow, "Done in the Name of Evil," TIME, 6/14/99

component

"The F.B.I. did, in fact, develop a racial component, the profile of serial killers as predominantly white, male loners." Jeffrey Goldberg, "The Color of Suspicion," New York Times, 6/20/99

compounded

"The match between England and Argentina, always a blood feud, was compounded by the memory of the Falklands crisis." Henry Kissinger, "Pele," TIME, 6/14/99

comprehensive

"Lecter was built up as a superman, embodying absolute yet comprehensive evil." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "Hannibal Lecter Returns," New York Times Book Review, 6/10/99

concocting

"I am concocting a seduction; I do not require a pastry chef." Ben Brantley, New York Times, 6/15/99

concomitant

"The doses of the drug were increased with the concomitant result that he quickly became an addict." Otto Friedrich,

Before the Deluge

concur

"Dr. Fishbein did not concur with his colleague's diagnosis and urged the Harper family to seek an opinion from the head of the Urology Department at Columbia Presbyterian." "Prostate Update," Prostate Digest, 9/99

condescending

"The reviewer treated this important book in the most condescending and dismissing manner." Letter to New York Times Book Review, 7/25/99

condolence

"Words of condolence seem very poor things and yet they are all one can use to tell of one's sympathy." Maisie Ward, Father Maturin

condone

"He does not condone the actions of any of the participants in the impeachment hearings." New York Times Book Review, 9/26/99

conducive

"The quiet calm of this garden is conducive to romance or repose." "The Sophisticated Traveler," 9/26/99

confidant

"Lecter rents a lavish house not terribly far from the modest duplex of FBI agent Starling, his antagonist/confidant during the period seven years earlier." Paul Gray, "Dessert Anyone?," TIME, 6/21/99

conflagration

"Did the firing of incendiary tear gas canisters cause or contribute to the conflagration?" New York Times, 9/3/99

confronts

"When we gaze into a seeming infinity of tomorrows, we face the challenge that any generation confronts when it looks ahead." Editorial, "2000 and Beyond," New York Times, 1/1/00

congenial

"Susan's congenial manner made her a favorite in the rodeo." Lacey Fosburgh, "All-Girls Rodeos," New York Times, 8/17/99

conjecture

"We read to understand how to take care of ourselves, to prepare for the unexpected, to conjecture what we would do in similar situations." Annie Proulx, "They Lived to Tell the Tale"

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