Lesson 12   -   edHelper.com
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Word List
consecutive
consequence
conservative
consolidate
conspicuous
conspiracy
consternation
constitute
consume
contagion
contaminate
contemplate
contemporary
contempt
contend
contentious
context
continent
contract
contradict
contrary
contrast
contrite
contrive
convention
 
 


Matching

Match each definition with a word.

      contend 1. to strive against difficulties or opposition; oppugn; war
___________________________ 2. to make impure or unusable by contact or by adding a harmful substance; pollute; defile
___________________________ 3. one of the main landmasses of the globe, usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica); abstinent; self-restraining; abstemious
___________________________ 4. to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent; intrigue; conspire
___________________________ 5. surprise and alarm, leading to panic, deep disappointment, or total confusion; fear; fright
___________________________ 6. the state of being scorned or despised; disgrace; disdain
___________________________ 7. following one after another without interruption; in unbroken order; subsequent; serial; sequential
___________________________ 8. preferring the traditional and resisting rapid change; right; fogyish; orthodox
___________________________ 9. the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect
___________________________ 10. to combine into a whole or mass; unify; concentrate; integrate
___________________________ 11. of the same age; coexistent; contemporaneous; synchronal
___________________________ 12. inclined to argue; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative; gladiatorial
___________________________ 13. easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable; obvious; plain; manifest
___________________________ 14. to destroy; devour
___________________________ 15. an agreement enforceable by law; bond; pact; bargain
___________________________ 16. the state of being contrasted; compare
___________________________ 17. an act or instance of following something as an effect, result, or outcome; aftereffect
___________________________ 18. opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed; antipode; contradictory
___________________________ 19. to consider thoroughly; think fully or deeply about; view; gaze
___________________________ 20. to assert the opposite of; deny the truth of; disaffirm; gainsay; impugn
___________________________ 21. the disease so spread; bane; virus
___________________________ 22. feeling deep guilt for one's wrongdoing or shortcoming, and desiring to make amends for it; remorseful; repentant; regretful; penitential
___________________________ 23. to appoint to an office or function; make or create; compose
___________________________ 24. a group engaged in such an agreement or plan; plot; scheme; covin
___________________________ 25. the delegates or members of such a meeting or assembly; pact