English language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; English literature; Readers; Recitations
CONDU'CT, _v.a._ lend; accompany; manage
CONE, _s._ a solid body, of which the base is circular, but which ends
in a point
CONFE'R, _v.a._ compare; give; bestow; contribute; conduce
CO'NFERENCE, _s._ formal discourse; an appointed meeting for discussing
some point by personal debate
CONFE'SS, _v.a._ acknowledge a crime; own; avow; grant
CONFI'NEMENT, _s._ imprisonment; restraint of liberty
CO'NFLUENCE, _s._ the joining together of rivers; a concourse; the act
of joining together
CONFORMA'TION, _s._ the form of things as relating to each other; the
act of producing suitableness or conformity to anything
CONFO'RMITY, _s._ similitude; consistency
CONGE'NER, _s._ a thing of the same kind or nature
CONGE'NIAL, _a._ partaking of the same genius
CONGLO'MERATE, _v.a._ to gather into a ball, like a ball of thread
CO'NICAL, _a._ in the shape of a cone
CONJE'CTURE, _s._ guess; imperfect knowledge; idea
CONNEC'TION, _s._ union
CO'NQUER, _v.a._ gain by conquest; win; subdue
CO'NQUEROR, _s._ a victor; one that conquers
CO'NQUEST, _s._ a victory
CO'NSCIENCE, _s._ the faculty by which we judge of the goodness or
wickedness of ourselves
CO'NSCIOUS, _a._ endowed with the power of knowing one's own thoughts
and actions; bearing witness by the dictates of conscience to
anything
CONSCRI'PTION, _s._ an enrolling or registering
CO'NSECRATE, _v.a._ to make sacred; to canonize
CO'NSEQUENCE, _s._ that which follows from any cause or principle;
effect of a cause
CO'NSEQUENT, _a._ following by rational deduction; following as the
effect of a cause
CONSI'DERABLE, _a._ worthy of consideration; important; valuable
CONSI'ST, _v.n._ subsist; be composed; be comprised
CONSI'STENCE, _s._ state with respect to material existence; degree of
denseness or rarity
CONSI'STENCY, _s._ adhesion; agreement with itself or with any other
thing
CONSPI'CUOUS, _a._ obvious to the sight
CO'NSTANT, _a._ firm; fixed; certain; unvaried
CONSTELLA'TION, _s._ a cluster of fixed stars; an assemblage of
splendours
CONSTERNA'TION, _s._ astonishment; amazement; wonder
CO'NSTITUTE, _v.a._ give formal existence; produce; erect; appoint
another in an office
CONSTRU'CT, _v.a._ build; form; compile
CONSTRU'CTION, _s._ the act of building; structure; form of building
CONSTR'UCTIVE, _a._ by construction
CONSU'MPTION, _s._ the act of consuming; waste; a disease; a waste of
muscular flesh
CO'NTACT, _s._ touch; close union
CONTA'GIOUS, _a._ infectious; caught by approach
CONTA'IN, _v.a._ hold; comprehend; restrain
CONTE'MPLATE, _v.a._ study; meditate; muse; think studiously with long
attention
CONTEMPLA'TION, _s._ meditation; studious thought
CONTE'MPLATIVE, _a._ given to thought or study
CONTE'MPORARY, _s._ one who lives at the same time with another
CONTE'MPTIBLE, _a._ worthy of contempt, of scorn; neglected; despicable
CO'NTEST, _s._ dispute; difference; debate
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