GRE备考：GRE阅读词汇笔记(13)

　　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