Thursday, October 2, 2014

RECONCILE

WORD: RECONCILE

MEANING:
1. (usually foll by: to) to make (oneself or another) no longer opposed; cause to acquiesce in something unpleasant: she reconciled herself to poverty.
2. to become friendly with (someone) after estrangement or to re-establish friendly relations between (two or more people)
3. to settle (a quarrel or difference)
4. to make (two apparently conflicting things) compatible or consistent with each other
5. (Ecclesiastical Terms) to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, etc)
6. settle, reunite, merge, resolve

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Only after He forced the two actors to reconcile did the movie continue.
2. I have reconciled my account with the bank.

PRONOUNCE:
reconcile - रेकन्साइल

LINK: RECONCILE

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