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发布时间:2016-03-01  编辑:查字典英语网小编

  consensus

  general agreement; opinion reached by a group

  consequential

  self-important; significant; consequent; following as a result; Ex. consequential air; CF. subsequent

  conservatory

  school of the fine arts ; glass-enclosed area; CF. conservancy

  consign

  send to a person or place for sale; deliver officially; entrust; put into the care of another; set apart ; N. consignment; CF. consignor, consignee

  consistency

  absence of contradictions; uniformity; degree of thickness or firmness; Ex. consistency of thick cream; CF. viscous

  console

  lessen sadness or disappointment; give comfort; allay the sorrow of; N. consolation

  consolidation

  unification; process of becoming firmer or stronger; V. consolidate: merge; strengthen

  consonance

  harmony; agreement

  consonant

  harmonious; in agreement; N.

  consort

  associate with; keep company; N: husband or wife

  conspiracy

  treacherous plot; secret plan against the law

  conspire

  take part in a conspiracy; work together; combine; Ex. Events conspired to produce great difficulties.

  consternation

  great shock; dismay

  constituency

  voters represented by an elected official; district so represented; group of supporters

  constituent

  supporter; voter; member of a constituency; component

  constitution

  constituting; system of laws; composition of something; physical makeup or structure of a person; Ex. men with strong constitutions

  constraint

  restraint; compulsion; repression of feelings; reticence; V. constrain: hold back; restrain; compel; oblige; confine forcibly; imprison

  construe

  explain; interpret; Ex. construe her silence as meaning that she agreed; CF. misconstrue

  consummate

  complete; V.

  contagion

  infection ; ADJ. contagious; CF. infectious: that can be passed by infection in the air

  contaminate

  pollute

  contempt

  scorn; disdain; ADJ. contemptuous; CF. contemptible

  contend

  struggle; compete; assert earnestly; state strongly

  contention

  assertion; claim; thesis; struggling; competition

  contentious

  quarrelsome; controversial; likely to cause arguments

  contest

  dispute; argue about the rightness of; compete for; try to win; Ex. contest the election results; Ex. contest a seat in Parliament; N.

  context

  writings preceding and following the passage quoted; circumstance in which an event occurs

  contiguous

  adjacent to; touching upon

  continence

  self-restraint; sexual chastity; sexual abstinence; voluntary control over bladder and bowel functions; ADJ. continent

  contingent

  dependent on something uncertain or in the future; conditional; happening by chance; accidental; N: a group of soldiers, ships to a larger force; CF. contingency: future event that may or may not occur; possibility; Ex. prepare for every contingency

  contortions

  twistings; distortions; V. contort: twist violently out of shape; CF. contortionist

  contraband

  illegal trade; smuggling; smuggled goods; ADJ.

  contravene

  contradict; oppose; violate ; N. contravention

  contrite

  penitent; repentant; N. contrition

  contrivance

  something contrived; machine or apparatus; clever deceitful plan; scheme

  contrive

  invent or fabricate in a clever way ; manage; Ex. contrive to attract his attention

  contrived

  unnatural and forced; artificial; not spontaneous; Ex. The ending was rather contrived.

  controvert

  oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict; ADJ. controversial; N. controversy

  contumacious

  stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority

  contusion

  bruise

  conundrum

  riddle; difficult problem

  convene

  come together; assemble; call to meet; Ex. convene the council

  convention

  social or moral custom; established practice; formal meeting; international agreement

  conventional

  ordinary; typical; not nuclear; Ex. conventional weapons

  converge

  approach; tend to meet; come together

  conversant

  familiar with; having knowledge of

  converse

  opposite; ADJ.

  convert

  one who has adopted a different religion or opinion; V: change into another form; adopt a particular religion or belief

  convex

  curving outward

  conveyance

  vehicle; transfer; act of conveying; Ex. public conveyance

  conviction

  judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief

  convivial

  pleasantly merry; festive; joyous; gay; characterized by joviality; jovial

  convoke

  call together; Ex. convoke Parliament; N. convocation

  convoluted

  coiled around; twisted; involved; complicated; intricate; complex; N. convolution: twist; one of the convex folds of the surface of the brain

  convulsion

  violent uncontrollable shaking movement ; V. convulse; ADJ. convulsive

  copious

  plentiful

  coquette

  flirt; flirtatious woman; woman who tries to attract the admiration of men without sincere feelings; V.

  cordial

  warmly friendly; gracious; heartfelt; Ex. cordial welcome

  cordon

  extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress; V.

  cornice

  projecting molding on building ;

  cornucopia

  horn overflowing with fruit and grain; symbol of abundance; horn of plenty

  corollary

  natural consequence

  coroner

  public official who investigates any death thought to be of other than natural causes

  corporeal

  bodily ; of a bodily form; material; tangible

  corpulent

  very fat; N. corpulence

  corpus

  collection ; Ex. the corpus of Shakespears works; Cf. corpse

  corpuscle

  red or white cell in the blood

  correlate

  either of the correlated things; V.

  correlation

  mutual relationship

  corroborate

  confirm; support; strengthen

  corrode

  destroy or wear away gradually by chemical action

  corrosive

  eating away by chemicals or disease; fierce

  corrugated

  wrinkled; ridged

  cosmic

  pertaining to the universe; vast

  coterie

  group that meets socially; select circle; close group of people with shared interests

  countenance

  approve; support; tolerate; Ex. countenance his rude behavior; N: face; appearance

  countermand

  cancel; revoke

  counterpart

  thing that completes another; things very much alike; thing that has the same purpose in a different system

  coup

  highly successful action or sudden attack; coup detat; CF. coup de gr^ace: deathblow or shot which kills

  couple

  join; unite; OP. uncouple

  courier

  messenger

  

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