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Confide
- verb - confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- reveal in private; tell confidentially
Confine
- verb - close in; darkness enclosed him"
- deprive of freedom; take into confinement
- place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- prevent from leaving or from being removed
- restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
- to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
Confuse
- verb - assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
- cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
- mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
Confute
- verb - prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"
Congrue
- - To agree; to be suitable.
Conjure
- verb - ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
- engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government"
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
Connate
- adjective - of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united; "a connate tomato flower"
- related in nature; "connate qualities"
Connive
- verb - encourage or assent to illegally or criminally
- form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner