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Consuls
- noun - a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
- A Roman Magistrate
Consult
- verb - advise professionally; "The professor consults for industry"
- get or ask advice from; "Consult your local broker"; "They had to consult before arriving at a decision"
- have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action"
- seek information from; "You should consult the dictionary"; "refer to your notes"
Consume
- verb - destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
- eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
- engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
- spend extravagantly;
- use up (resources or materials);
Contact
- noun - (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to solder the contacts"
- a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"
- a communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"
- a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor"
- a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
- be in or establish communication with;
- close interaction; "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings"
Contain
- verb -
- be capable of holding or containing; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon"
- be divisible by; "24 contains 6"
- contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water"
- include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's"
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "
Contemn
- verb - look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"
Contend
- verb - be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"
- come to terms with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"
- compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
- have an argument about something
- maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future"
- to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race"
Content
- adjective - everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something; "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content"
- make content; "I am contented"
- satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are; "a contented smile"
- satisfy in a limited way; "He contented himself with one glass of beer per day"
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"
- the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons"
- the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
- the state of being contented with your situation in life; "he relaxed in sleepy contentedness"; "they could read to their heart's content"
- the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
Contest
- noun - a struggle between rivals
- an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
- Competition
- fixtures
- to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race"
Context
- noun - discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation
- the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the historical context"