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- cabal
A group engaged in schemes, especially against a government; or those schemes themselves. The word…
- camel case
Used in coding and in hashtags. The first word is lower case and each word that follows is capitalized. …
- capital
Capital is a noun with a number of meanings: 1. Referring to any of a series of upper…
- capitol
Refers to the building or buildings where the functions of government take place, specifically where the legislative…
- CDC
The national public health agency responsible for responding to emerging diseases; disease…
- climate
The average of atmospheric weather conditions over a series of years using the prevailing data…
- climate change
Observations and modeling in the local, regional and global climate across time using data collected…
- closed captioning
Abbreviated CC. Synchronized text that accompanies video to describe dialogue and sound effects. It is stored as a…
- coda
A noun meaning a concluding event, remark, or section; often used in connection with performing…
- CODA (child of deaf adult)
An acronym that stands for “child of deaf adult.” Do not confuse with the noun coda.
- colloquialisms
A regional or cultural word or phrase used in informal conversation and everyday…
- color blind
When referring to a vision disorder involving ability to see or differentiate color, use color vision deficiency, color…
- color vision deficiency
Commonly called color blindness. Color vision deficiency is a rare condition affecting…
- commonwealth
A commonwealth is a nation, state or political unit founded on law for the common good of the people. …
- complement
The noun complement — spelled c-o-p-l-e-m-e-n-t — is a thing that “completes or makes perfect” something else. As…
- compliment
The noun compliment — spelled c-o-m-p-l-i-m-e-n-t — means “an expression of praise or admiration.” The verb form…
- compose
The verb compose is the act of making or creating something or making something, most…
- compound adjective
If a compound adjective or compound adjective made of proper nouns is made from two words, in most cases…
- compound noun
If a compound noun or proper noun is written as two words, do not hyphenate…
- comprise, consist of
The word comprise and the phrase consist of both means to be made (up) of. Consist of…
- constitute
The word constitute means the act of forming or making up something from different…
- content warning
A notice ahead of a piece of content that the content contains objectionable material such as: …
- convict
OAJ suggests following the style of the Prison Journalism Project when it comes to…
- council
The word council — spelled c-o-u-n-c-i-l — means an advisory, deliberative, or legislative body of people formally…
- counsel, counselor
The word counsel — spelled c-o-u-n-s-e-l —means advice, given formally, such as in therapy…
- CoVid, CoVid-19
CoVid stands for Corona Virus disease. CoVid-19 is the disease caused by a variant of the virus SARS-CoV-2. It is…