MinD Sep 28 - Oct 04 Flashcards
Conscript (v)
To register, enlist, draft, induce, recruit
Consecrate (v)
To make or declare sacred
Conservatory (n)
A school for the teaching of music, act or art; a room usually connected to a house in which plants are grown and kept, a greenhouse
Consign (v)
To deliver, transfer, entrust or give up
Connubial (adj)
Relating to marriage or the state of being married
Consolidate (v)
To join together to become more effective, to become stronger, to combine into a whole, unify
Consonant (adj)
In agreement, harmonious
Conspiracy (n)
A secret agreement, plot
Confound (v)
To confuse or surprise; to perplex or bewilder; to amaze
Confraternity (n)
A fraternal union; brotherhood
Confront (v)
To bring face to face, encounter
Congenital (adj)
Heredity
Connive (v)
To join secretly in a plot; conspire; to support a wrong doing by ignoring or failing to report it
Congruent (adj)
Equivalent, compatible, of the same shape
Conjecture (v)
To guess, figure out with little evidence
Conjoin (v)
To join or act together
Conjugal (adj)
Connected with marriage or the relationship between husband and wife
Conjure (v)
To call forth using magic
Consternation (n)
A feeling of anxiety, shock or confusion; a state of dismay
Constituency (n)
The body of voters from a district represented by an elected official; a group of supporters for anything
Construe (v)
To interpret
Contempt (n)
A strong feeling of combined dislike and lack of respect; scorn
Contemptuous (adj)
Feeling contempt; disdainful; scornful
Contentious (adj)
Argumentative; quarrelsome
Contiguous (adj)
Adjoining; side by side
Continuum (n)
A continuous whole without clear division into parts
Contort (v)
To twist or bend out of shape
Contravention (n)
Contrary; opposition
Contretemps (n)
An unlucky event, often happening in public and causing social embarrassment
Contrived (adj)
False, artificial, not spontaneous, obviously planned
Controvert (v)
To dispute, opposed by reasoning, refute
Contumely (adv)
Contemptuous rudeness, arrogance, an insulting act or comment
Convene (v)
To gather together; to assemble especially for a formal meeting
Convex (adj)
Curved or rounded like an exterior sphere or circle
Convolution (n)
A complexity of coils, twists, and folds
Cornucopia (n)
Bounty, plenty, affluence, an abundance
Corollary (n)
Something that results from something else; a natural result or consequence
Corporal (adj)
Affecting or related to the body as in punishment