Unit 16 Flashcards
Compliant
(adj) yielding
e. g. The young negotiator is trying to learn the skill of being open to proposals by the other side without seeming too compliant.
Compunction
(n) uneasiness caused by guilt
e. g. Spend the money without compunction.
Concave
(adj) curving inward ≠ Convex (مقعر)
e. g. Concave lenses are used in glasses to compensate for myopia (nearsightedness)
Conciliatory
(adj) overcoming distrust or hostility
e. g. The leader of the country made conciliatory statements assuring the world that his country did not intend to acquire nuclear weapons.
Concoct
(v) to invent
e. g. The various human cultures have concocted a great many explanations to describe the beginning of the Earth, life, and humanity.
Concomitant
(n) existing concurrently; a phenomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something
e. g. Some of us look on pain and illness as concomitants of the stresses of living.
Condone
(v) to overlook voluntarily; forgive
e. g. Mahatma Gandhi believed in the principle of ahisma and refused to condone violence of any kind, even if used in a just cause.
Confound
(v) to baffle; to perplex; mix up
e. g. Everyone but astrophysicists seems to be confounded by the question “What happened before the Big Bang?”
Congenial
(adj) similar in tastes and habits; friendly; suited to
e. g. The physicist Freeman Dyson has expressed his awe at how congenial the universe is to intelligent life and consciousness.
Conjugal
(adj) pertaining to marriage agreement
e. g. The goal of the Bennett sisters in Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice is to find a suitable man to marry with whom they can live in conjugal happiness.
