conservation conservation /kɒnsə veʃən/ noun the careful use of things such as energy or natural resources 쑗 The company is spending more money on energy consider /kən sdə/ verb 1..
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disagree strongly with someone 쑗 They
soon came into conflict over who should
be in charge.
conflict
conflict 2 /kən flkt/ verb to disagree
with someone or something 쑗 His
ver-sion of events conflicts with that of his
partner.
confuse
confuse /kən
someone feel that they cannot
under-stand something 쑗 She was confused by
all the journalists’ questions 2 to mix
things or people up 쑗 The twins are so
always confuse him with his brother –
they are very alike.
confused
confused /kən
to understand or to think clearly 쑗 I’m a
bit confused – did we say 8 p.m or 8.30?
con-fused in her old age.
confusing
confusing /kən
cult to understand 쑗 They found the
in-structions on the computer very
confus-ing.
confusion
confusion /kən
state of not knowing what to do or how
to decide something 쑗 Her reply just
created more confusion over who was
decide what is happening or what to do
confusion 2 a state in which things are
not organised in the correct way or are
not clear 쑗 There were scenes of
confu-sion at the airport when the snow
stopped all flights.
congratulate
congratulate /kən 'rtʃυlet/ verb 1.
to tell someone that you are very
pleased that they have been successful 쑗
I want to congratulate you on your
pro-motion 2 to give someone your best
wishes on a special occasion 쑗 He
con-gratulated them on their silver wedding
someone on something.)
congratulation
congratulation /kən 'rtʃυ leʃ(ə)n/
noun praise for someone who has done
well 쑗 His grandparents sent him a
let-ter of congratulation on passing his
an expression of good wishes to
some-one who has dsome-one well or who is
cele-brating a special occasion 쑗 a
The office sent him their tions on his wedding.
congratula-conjunction
conjunction /kən d"ŋkʃən/ noun 1 a
word which connects different sections
of a sentence ‘and’ and ‘but’ are
con-junctions 2 왍 in conjunction with
someone or something together with
someone or something 쑗 The icy road in conjunction with fog made driving very difficult.
connect
connect /kə nekt/ verb 1 to join one
thing to another 쑗 The computer should
Connect the two red wires together 2 to
make it possible for a telephone or acomputer to be used for communicating
with others 쑗 Has the telephone been connected yet?
connection
connection /kə nekʃən/ noun 1 a
rela-tionship between things 쑗 There is a definite connection between smoking
and lung cancer 2 a bus, train or plane
which you catch after getting off
anoth-er means of transport 쑗 My train was late and I missed my connection to Bir-
mingham 3 a particular way of
com-municating remotely 쑗 a low
connection? 4 a point at which two
dif-ferent pieces of equipment join 쑗 There
plu-ral noun connections people you
know 쑗 He has business connections in
relat-ing to 쑗 I’m writing in connection with your visit.
conquer
conquer / kɒŋkə/ verb 1 to defeat
peo-ple by force 쑗 The Romans had
con-quered most of Europe 2 to change a
negative emotion or type of behaviour
successfully 쑗 I eventually conquered
my fear of flying.
conscience
conscience / kɒnʃəns/ noun a feelingthat you have done right or wrongconscientious
conscientious /kɒnʃi enʃəs/ tive working carefully and well 쑗 She’s
adjec-a very conscientious worker.
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around you 쑗 She was conscious during
con-scious decision a decision which you
have thought carefully about 쑗 Refusing
the offer was a conscious decision on
deci-sion to try to avoid her in future.
consciously
consciously / sltənt/ noun 1 an
expert who gives advice 쑗 His tax
con-sultant advised him to sell the shares 2.
a senior hospital doctor who is an expert
in a particular medical condition or
ill-ness 쑗 We’ll make an appointment for
you to see a consultant.
consume
consume /kən
drink something 쑗 The guests consumed
over a hundred hamburgers 2 to use
something up 쑗 The world’s natural
re-sources are being consumed at an
about half the amount of petrol of an
or-dinary car.
consumer
consumer /kən
or company that buys goods or services
Gas consumers are protesting at the
in-crease in prices.
contact
contact / kɒntkt/ noun 1 an act of
touching 쑗 Avoid any contact between
been in physical contact with the patient
must consult their doctor immediately.
2. the act of communicating with
contact with someone to write to
some-one or talk to them on the telephsome-one 쐽
verb to write to someone or talk to them
on the telephone 쑗 He tried to contact
the ticket office immediately?
contain
contain /kən ten/ verb 1 to hold an
amount, or to have an amount inside 쑗
a briefcase containing important
docu-ments 2 to limit or prevent something
harmful or unpleasant 쑗 The army tried
to contain the advance of the enemy
con-tain the revolt among its members.
container
container /kən tenə/ noun an objectsuch as a box or bottle which holds
something else 쑗 We need a container
in strong metal containers.
contemporary
contemporary /kən temp(ə)rəri/ jective of the present time 쑗 contempo-
the same time as someone 쑗
one of my contemporaries from school.
contender
contender /kən tendə/ noun a personwho takes part in a competition, espe-
cially someone who is likely to win 쑗
He’s a definite contender for the world title.
content
content 1 / kɒntent/ noun the amount ofsomething which is contained in a sub-
stance 쑗 Dried fruit has a higher sugar
contents 1. things which are inside
something 쑗 The contents of the bottle
spilled onto the carpet 2 the list of
chapters in a book, usually printed at thebeginning
content
content 2 /kən tent/ adjective happywith what is happening in your life 왍
content to happy to 쑗 She was content
with satisfied with 쑗 If you are not tent with the way the car runs, bring it
noun a feeling of satisfaction 왍 to your
heart’s content as much as you want 쑗
You can play the piano to your heart’s
sailing to their heart’s content.
each other 쑗 an international sports
leadership contest.
contest
contest 2 /kən test/ verb 1 to compete
with other people to achieve a position
the championship 2 to say that you
dis-agree with what is written in a legal ument
doc-contestant
contestant /kən testənt/ noun a
per-son who takes part in a competition 쑗
This is trial version www.adultpdf.com
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The two contestants shook hands before
the match.
context
context / kɒntekst/ noun the other
words which surround a particular word
in a piece of writing and which help to
show its meaning 쑗 Even if you don’t
know what a word means, you can
sometimes guess its meaning from the
show-ing only part of what someone said or
wrote, so that the meaning is changed 쑗
My words have been taken out of context
– I said the book was ‘one of the best’
not ‘the best’ I’d read.
continent
continent / kɒntnənt/ noun one of the
seven large land areas in the world, e.g
Africa or Europe
Continent
Continent / kɒntnənt/ noun the main
land area of Europe, as compared with
the islands of the United Kingdom 쑗
They go to the Continent on holiday
each year, sometimes to France,
Conti-nent in the main part of Europe
continental
continental /kɒnt nent(ə)l/ adjective
1 referring to a continent 2 referring to
or typical of Europe excluding the
Unit-ed Kingdom
continual
continual /kən tnjuəl/ adjective 1.
happening many times in a period of
time 쑗 We have experienced a period of
continual change 2 happening
fre-quently in a way that is annoying 쑗 The
computer has given us continual
prob-lems ever since we bought it.
continue
continue /kən
ing something or happening 쑗 He
con-tinued working, even though everyone
con-tinued to send out clouds of black
continued with some children’s dances.
continuous
continuous /kən