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Censure
- noun - harsh criticism or disapproval
- rebuke formally
- the state of being excommunicated
Conduce
- verb - be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing"
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"
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"
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);
Contuse
- verb - injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of; "I bruised my knee"