Word List 10 Flashcards
commandeer
to draft for military purposes, take for public use
commemorate
honor the memory off
commensurate
equal in extent
commiserate
eel or express pity or sympathy for
commodious
spacious and comeortable
communal
held in common of a group of people
compact
agreement, contract
compact
tightly packed, ffirm, brief
comparable
similar
compatible
harmonious
compelling
overpowering, irresistable in effect
compensatory
making up or, repaying
compile
assemle , gathher, accumulate
complacency
self-satisfaction, smugness
complement
something that completes or fills up, number or quantity needed to make something complete
complement
complete, consummate, make perfect
complementary
serving to complete something
compliance
readiness to yield, conformity in fulfilling requirements
compliant
yielding
complicity
participation
component
element, ingredient
composure
mental calmness
compound
something composed of the union of separate parts, walled-in area containing several buildings
compound
compose, combine ingredients, make something bad worse
comprehensive
thorough, inclusive
comprise
include, consis of
compromise
adjust or settle by making mutual concessions, endanger thhe interests or reputation off
compute
reckon, calculate
concede
acknowledge something to be true, admit defeat, grant, award
conceited
vanity or self love, whimsical idea
concentration
focusing one’s total attention, gathering, cluster, relative amount of a substance
concentric
having a common center
conception
beginning, forming an idea
concerted
mutually agreed on, done together
concession
something granted in response to a demand, acknowledgement, preferential rate, righht to use land
conciliatory
reconciling, soothing
concise
brief and compact
conclusive
decisive, ending all debate
concoct
prepare by combining
concord
harmony, agreement between people or things
concrete
physical or material in nature, as opposed to abstract, real, specific
concur
express agreement with an opinion, happen together
condemn
censure, sentence, force or limit to a particulat state
condense
make more compact or dense, shorten or abridge, reduce to a denser form
condescend
act conscious of descending to a lower level, patronize
condone
overlook, forgive, give tacit approval
conducive
contributive, tending to
confine
shut in, restrict
confirm
corroborate, verify, support
confiscate
seize, comandeer
conformity
state of obeying regulations, behavior that matches the behavior of most others
confound
confuse, puzzle