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Academic Word List Sublist 1. References: www.dictionary.com by Nohora Escobar. CONSISTENT ( adj ). PRONUNCIATION: conSIStent . DEFINITION: A greeing or accordant; compatible; not self contradictory. Constantly adhering to the same principles, course, form, etc.
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Academic Word ListSublist 1 References: www.dictionary.com by Nohora Escobar
CONSISTENT (adj) • PRONUNCIATION: conSIStent. • DEFINITION: • Agreeing or accordant; compatible; not self contradictory. • Constantly adhering to the same principles, course, form, etc. • He’s Holding firmly together; cohering. • SYNONYM(S): coherent; congruous, reliable; consonant; conformable. • ANTONYMS: disagreeing; erratic; incongruous, inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, varying, irreproducible, incoherent, heterogeneous.
CONSISTENT (adj) • WORD FAMILY WORDS: • Quasiconsistent: adj • Consistently: adv. • Quasiconsistently: adv • SENTENCE(S): • His views and actions are CONSISTENT. • The evidence is CONSISTENT with the defendant’s statement. • He’s one of the most CONSISTENT hitters in the league.
CONSTITUTION (n) • PRONUNCIATION: constiTUtion • DEFINITION: • The way in which a thing is composed or made up; makeup; composition. • The physical character of the body as to strength, health, etc. • The aggregate of a person's physical and psychological characteristics. • The act or process of constituting; establishment. • The state of being constituted; formation. • SYNONYM(S): architecture; build; character; composition; construction; content; design; essence; form; habit; nature; structure. • ANTONYMS(S): Anticonstitution.
CONSTITUTION (n) • WORD FAMILY WORDS: • Anticonstitution: adj • SENTENCE(S): • The chemical CONSTITUTION of the cleanser. • He has a strong CONSTITUTION. • The CONSTITUTIONof the United States, written in 1787 and put into effect in 1789.
CONTEXT (n) • PRONUNCIATION: CONtext • DEFINITION: • The parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect. • The set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc. • SYNONYM(S): background, milieu, climate. • WORD FAMILY WORDS: • Contextless: adj
CONTEXT (n) • SENTENCE(S): • You have misinterpreted my remark because you took it out of CONTEXT. • The course places the history of medicine in a social and cultural CONTEXT. • Then the teacher can move from that to a classroom CONTEXT.