Italian confetto meaning a sweet]
confide confides, confiding, confided
VERB If you confide in or to someone, you tell them a secret.
confidence
NOUN 1 If you have confidence in someone, you feel you can trust them.
2 Someone who has confidence is sure of their own abilities or qualities.
confident
ADJECTIVE 1 If you are confident about something, you are sure it will happen the way you want it to.
2 Someone who is confident is very sure of themselves and their own abilities.
confidently ADVERB
confidential
ADJECTIVE Confidential information is meant to be kept secret.
confine confines, confining, confined
VERB 1 If someone confines you to a place, you can’t leave it. • The doctor confined Debbie to bed for two weeks as she had pneumonia.
2 If you confine yourself to doing something, you do only that thing. • On their trip abroad, they confined themselves to drinking bottled water.
confirm confirms, confirming, confirmed
VERB 1 If you confirm something, you say or show that it is true. • The teacher confirmed that we had all passed our spelling test.
2 If you confirm an arrangement or appointment, you say it is definite. • Dad confirmed our holiday booking.
confiscate confiscates, confiscating, confiscated
VERB If someone confiscates something, they take it away from someone as a punishment.
[from Latin confiscare meaning to seize for the public treasury]
confiscation NOUN
conflict conflicts, conflicting, conflicted
NOUN 1 disagreement and argument
2 a war or battle
VERB 3 When two ideas or interests conflict, they are different and it seems impossible for them both to be true.
conform conforms, conforming, conformed
VERB 1 If you conform, you behave the way people expect you to.
2 If something conforms to a law or to someone’s wishes, it does what is required or wanted.
conformist NOUN OR ADJECTIVE
confront confronts, confronting, confronted
VERB 1 If you are confronted with a problem or task, you have to deal with it.
2 If you confront someone, you meet them face to face, especially when you are going to fight or argue with them.
confrontation confrontations
NOUN a serious dispute between two people or groups of people who come face to face
confuse confuses, confusing, confused
VERB 1 If you confuse two people or things, you mix them up and are not sure which is which.
2 If you confuse someone, you make them uncertain about what is happening or what to do.
confusion NOUN
congested
ADJECTIVE 1 When a road is congested, it is so full of traffic that normal movement is impossible.
2 If your nose is congested, it is blocked and you cannot breathe properly.
congestion NOUN
congratulate congratulates, congratulating, congratulated
VERB If you congratulate someone, you say that you’re pleased about something good that has happened to them, or praise them for something they have done. • He congratulated us on winning the competition.
congratulations NOUN
congregation congregations
NOUN the people attending a service in a church
congruent
ADJECTIVE In mathematics, things that are congruent are exactly the same size and shape, and would fit exactly on top of each other. • congruent triangles
conifer conifers
NOUN any type of evergreen tree that produces cones
coniferous ADJECTIVE
conjunction conjunctions
NOUN In grammar, a conjunction is a word that links two other words or two clauses, such as and, but, or, while and that. For example: “I love bacon and eggs.” “I’m happy, but my brother is not”.
conjurer conjurers
NOUN someone who entertains people by doing magic tricks
conker conkers
NOUN a brown nut from a horse chestnut tree
connect connects, connecting, connected
VERB 1 If you connect two things, you join them together.
2 If one thing or person is connected with another, there is a link between them.
connection connections
NOUN 1 the point where two things are joined together
2 If you make a connection at a station or airport, you continue your journey by catching another train, bus or plane. • Our train was late, so we missed our connection.
connective connectives
NOUN a word that connects phrases, clauses or words together
See conjunction
conquer conquers, conquering, conquered
VERB 1 If you conquer something difficult or dangerous, you succeed in controlling it. • She conquered her fear of spiders.
2 to take control of a country by force
conqueror NOUN
conscience
NOUN the part of your mind that tells you what is right or wrong
conscientious
ADJECTIVE
