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Various

"The Illustrated London Reading Book"

_ 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.


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