English Vocabulary Builder

®   Commensurate: equal in extent: Your reward will be commensurate with your effort.

®   Commodious: spacious and comfortable: After sleeping in small roadside cabins, they found their hotel room commodious.

®   Compatible: harmonious, in harmony with: They were compatible neighbours, never quarreling over unimportant matters.

®   Compilation: listing of statistical information in tabular or book form: The compilation of data for the report took six months.

®   Conciliate: pacify, win over: He tried to conciliate me with a gift.

®   Concise: brief and compact: The essay was concise and explicit.

®   Concurrent: happening at the same time: Fortunately, the dates of their holidays were concurrent.

®   Condescend: bestow courtesies with a superior air: The general condescend to eat with the soldiers.

®   Condole: express sympathetic sorrow: His friends gathered to condole with him over his loss.

®   Condone: overlook, forgive: We cannot condone your recent criminal cooperation with the gamblers.

®   Confiscate: seize, commandeer: The custom officer confiscated the smuggled goods.

®   Conformity: harmony, agreement: Every man must live in conformity with his own beliefs.

®   Conjecture: surmise, guess: I will end all your conjectures; I admit I am guilty as charged.

®   Connivance: pretense of ignorance of something wrong, assistance, permission to offend: The crime was committed with the connivance of his parents.

®   Consensus: general agreement: The consensus indicates that we are opposed to entering into this pact.

®   Constraint: compulsion, repression of feelings: He agreed to go only under constraints.

®   Contaminate: pollute: The river was contaminated with waste.

®   Contentious: quarrelsome: We heard loud and contentious noises in the next room.

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