526. cavalier : casual and offhand; arrogant

　　* Sensitive about having her ideas taken lightly, Marcia felt insulted by Mark's cavalier dismissal of her suggestion.

　　528. cede : transfer; yield title to

　　* I intend to cede this property to the city.

　　529. celerity : speed; rapidity

　　* Hamlet resented his mother's celerity in remarrying within a month after his father's death.

　　534. censure : blame; criticize

　　* He was censured for his inappropriate behavior.

　　536. centigrade : denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius)

　　* On the centigrade thermometer, the freezing point of water is zero degrees

　　537. centrifugal : radiating; departing from the center

　　* Many automatic drying machines remove excess moisture from clothing by centrifugal force.

　　539. centripetal : tending toward the center

　　* Does centripetal force or the force of gravity bring orbiting bodies to the earth's surface?

　　544. cessation : stopping

　　* The workers threatened a cessation of all activities if their demands were not met.

　　545. cession : yielding to another; ceding

　　* The cession of Alaska to the United States is discussed in this chapter.

　　552. champion : support militantly

　　* Martin Luther King, Jr., won the Nobel Peace Prize because he championed the oppressed in their struggle for equality.