Lesson 11   -   edHelper.com
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Word List
compliment
comply
composer
compound
comprehend
comprehensive
compress
compromise
compulsive
compulsory
concede
conceit
concept
concise
concoct
concrete
condemn
condense
condescend
condolence
confine
confiscate
conglomerate
connote
conscientious
 
 


Matching

Match each definition with a word.

      concept 1. a general notion or idea; conception; image
___________________________ 2. wide or all-inclusive in range or scope; encyclopedic
___________________________ 3. to declare by official order (something, such as a building) to be unsuitable or unfit for use; knock; denunciate; blame
___________________________ 4. to signify or suggest (certain meanings, ideas, etc.) in addition to the explicit or primary meaning; express
___________________________ 5. to understand or grasp the meaning of; compass; accept; see
___________________________ 6. to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict; bar; prelimit
___________________________ 7. to stoop or deign to do something
___________________________ 8. an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc; image; concept; impression
___________________________ 9. expressing or covering much in few words; brief in form but comprehensive in scope; succinct; terse; breviloquent; laconic
___________________________ 10. to acknowledge the truth, justice, or propriety of; admit; fess; own up
___________________________ 11. to seize by or as if by authority; appropriate summarily; arrogate; take
___________________________ 12. required or obligatory; mandatory; imperative
___________________________ 13. composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients; coadunate; join
___________________________ 14. pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular (opposed to general); cake; dry
___________________________ 15. able to compel; compelling.
___________________________ 16. to make shorter or more concise; abridge; concentrate; compress
___________________________ 17. to prepare or make by combining ingredients, esp. in cookery; hatch; devise
___________________________ 18. one who composes, esp. music.
___________________________ 19. to press into less space, or condense as though pressing together; contract; shrink
___________________________ 20. a formal act of courtesy or respect; bouquet; orchid(s)
___________________________ 21. to act in agreement with or obedience to a wish, request, requirement, or rule (sometimes fol. by with); keep; follow
___________________________ 22. a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.
___________________________ 23. sympathy with a grieving or suffering person.
___________________________ 24. a corporation consisting of a number of subsidiary companies or divisions in a variety of unrelated industries, usually as a result of merger or acquisition; motley; assorted
___________________________ 25. done in accordance with one's conscience; scrupulous; right; just