assimilate
When people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it.
There is every sign that new Asian-Americans are just as willing to assimilate.
His family tried to assimilate into the white and Hispanic communities.
The Vietnamese are trying to assimilate themselves and become Americans.
French Jews generally had been assimilated into the nation's culture.
= integrate
．assimilation
They promote social integration and assimilation of minority ethnic groups into the culture.
= integration
If you assimilate new ideas, customs, or techniques, you learn them or adopt them.
My mind could only assimilate one impossibility at a time.
= absorb
．assimilation
This technique brings life to instruction and eases assimilation of knowledge.
These business people have all been assimilated into an identical-looking crowd.
autocriticism 专制主义
befog 大雾
befall
If something bad or unlucky befalls you, it happens to you. (LITERARY)
...the disaster that befell the island of Flores.
bespatter 泼溅
belaud 小精灵
benign
You use benign to describe someone who is kind, gentle, and harmless.
They are normally a more benign audience.
Critics of the scheme take a less benign view.
= charitable
．benignly
I just smiled benignly and stood back.
A benign substance or process does not have any harmful effects.
We're taking relatively benign medicines and we're turning them into poisons.
A benign tumour will not cause death or serious harm. (MEDICAL)
It wasn't cancer, only a benign tumour.
≠ malignant
Benign conditions are pleasant or make it easy for something to happen.
They enjoyed an especially benign climate.
This plunge came in a time of relatively benign economic conditions.
If you describe someone's approach to a problem as one of benign neglect, you disapprove of the fact that they are doing nothing and hoping that the problem will solve itself.
America and Japan have settled back into a policy of benign neglect of their currencies.
He is so benign that he wouldn't even hurt an ant.
benevolent
If you describe a person in authority as benevolent, you mean that they are kind and fair.
The company has proved to be a most benevolent employer.
They believe that the country needs a benevolent dictator.
．benevolently
Thorne nodded his understanding, smiling benevolently.
．benevolence
A bit of benevolence from people in power is not what we need.
Benevolent is used in the names of some organizations that give money and help to people who need it. (BRIT)
...the Army Benevolent Fund.
She always likes to be by the side of her benevolent grandmother.
benediction
A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer. (FORMAL)
The minister pronounced the benediction.
The Pope's hands were raised in benediction.
= blessing
You can refer to something that makes people feel protected and at peace as a benediction.
She could only raise her hand in a gesture of benediction.
The song hovered, like a whispered benediction, above the crowd.
Then the priest gave us his benediction. We feel truly blessed.
benefaction 恩惠
bilingual
Bilingual means involving or using two languages.
...bilingual education.
...the Collins bilingual dictionaries.
Someone who is bilingual can speak two languages equally well, usually because they learned both languages as a child.
He is bilingual in an Asian language and English.
My mother is bilingual. She can speak Spanish and English.
circumnavigete 环游动
circumspect
If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks. (FORMAL)
The banks should have been more circumspect in their dealings.
You seem to be implying, in your usual circumspect manner, that perhaps it might not be a wonderful idea.
= cautious, careful ≠ reckless
．circumspectly
I would suggest that for the time being you behave as circumspectly as possible in political matters.
= cautiously ≠ recklessly
You should be very circumspect about taking medications whose ingredients you don't know.
circumaviate 环空的
coaction 共同作用
coeducation 男女同校
collingual 用同一种语言的
collocate
In linguistics, a collocate of a particular word is another word which often occurs with that word. (TECHNICAL)
In linguistics, if one word collocates with another, they often occur together. (TECHNICAL)
`Detached' collocates with `house'.
compatriot
Your compatriots are people from your own country.
Chris Robertson of Australia beat his compatriot Chris Dittmar in the final.
= countryman
She and her fellow compatriots all root for Canada in the Olympics.
commiserate
If you commiserate with someone, you show them pity or sympathy when something unpleasant has happened to them.
When I lost, he commiserated with me.
．commiseration commiserations
After half an hour's commiseration, we turned to more practical matters.
We have sent the team our commiserations.
I commiserated with her when she didn't get the promotion.
commove 商品
commemorate
To commemorate an important event or person means to remember them by means of a special action, ceremony, or specially created object.
One room contained a gallery of paintings commemorating great moments in baseball history.
The 200th anniversary of Mozart's death is being commemorated around the world with concerts featuring his work.
= celebrate
．commemoration commemorations
...the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
...a service of commemoration.
...a march in commemoration of Malcolm X.
This statue commemorates American soldiers.
concolorous 同色的
connatural 自然的
contemporary
Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.
She writes a lot of contemporary music for people like Whitney Houston.
Perhaps he should have a more updated look, a more contemporary style.
Only the names are ancient; the characters are modern and contemporary.
= modern
Contemporary people or things were alive or happened at the same time as something else you are talking about.
...drawing upon official records and the reports of contemporary witnesses.
Someone's contemporary is a person who is or was alive at the same time as them.
Like most of my contemporaries, I grew up in a vastly different world.
...a glossary of musical terms found in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
As a contemporary writer, his books appealed more to a youthful audience.
consolidate
If you consolidate something that you have, for example power or success, you strengthen it so that it becomes more effective or secure.
The question is: will the junta consolidate its power by force?.
Brydon's team-mate Martin Williamson consolidated his lead in the National League when he won the latest round.
．consolidation
But change brought about the growth and consolidation of the working class.
Even if not total, the Romans' hold was sufficient for them to begin the task of consolidation.
To consolidate a number of small groups or firms means to make them into one large organization.
Judge Charles Schwartz is giving the state 60 days to disband and consolidate Louisiana's four higher education boards.
IBM, which consolidated some operations last summer, has made clear that it needs to continue to streamline them.
．consolidation consolidations
This consolidation meant having to reduce the numerical strength of the Army.
Further consolidations in the industry could follow.
The two private taxi companies have been consolidated into one.
contramissile 反弹道导弹
contraposition 对位
contraband
Contraband refers to goods that are taken into or out of a country illegally.
The ship was found not to be carrying any contraband.
Most of the city markets were flooded with contraband goods.
correlation
A correlation between things is a connection or link between them. (FORMAL)
...the correlation between smoking and disease.
There is a strong correlation between stock price and profits.
corradiate 腐蚀的
corrugate 起皱
counterrevolutionary 反革命
dethrone
If a king, queen, or other powerful person is dethroned, they are removed from their position of power.
He was dethroned and went into exile.
= depose