CON Plus: Part 3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Contort

Con + tort = Contort.

Stemming from the Latin 'tortum', meaning 'wrong', tort is a wrongful act that leads to some form of injury to the person being wronged (whether that be injury to the person themselves, their property, or even their reputation).

Contort, as in "Whenever I went to the circus as a child, I had to look away when the acrobats came on, as it made me feel sick watching them contort their bodies to fit into the smallest of spaces".

Answer: Conspire

Con + spire = Conspire.

Spire, as in "My local church had started a campaign to raise money to repair their spire, which had been badly damaged during the recent storms".

Conspire, as in "John had fallen out with a few of his fellow football players recently, and he was worried that they would conspire against him to prevent him getting the team captaincy he had been working towards for a number of years".

Answer: Conjury

Con + jury = Conjury.

Jury, as in "It took the jury less than half an hour to unanimously find the defendant guilty, as the evidence against him had been so overwhelming".

Conjury, as in "My son had been a fan of magic since he was really little, and had been practicing his conjury every day in hope of one day becoming a famous magician".

Answer: Contract

Con + tract = Contract.

Tract, as in "The farmer had just acquired a massive tract of land from his neighbour, and decided to plough it immediately so he could start making use of this huge extra space".

Contract, as in "Steve was nervous when he went into the estate agent's office to sign the contract for the purchase of his new house, as he had never spent that much money on one single item before".

Answer: Convector

Con + vector = Convector.

Perhaps the most well-known and easily understood vector is velocity, as this provides information on both an object's speed, and direction of movement.

Convector, as in "My house gets really cold during the winter months, as my heating system just isn't up to the job. So I have bought a convector heater to give me the additional heat I need during this chilly time".

Answer: Concede

Con + cede = Concede.

Cede, as in "My daughter very kindly decided to cede her favourite teddy bear to her baby brother when he was born, as it seemed to cheer him up when he was sad".

Concede, as in "After over an hour of digging, Dave finally decided to concede defeat, and call in a team of professionals to remove the tree at the bottom of his garden".

Answer: Consensual

Con + sensual = Consensual.

Sensual, as in "The sensual way he caressed her neck and arms gave Luke's girlfriend a pleasant feeling".

Consensual, as in "The blizzard had increased in intensity since the start of the soccer match, and there was consensual agreement between the two teams and the officials that the match should be abandoned".

Answer: Confine

Con + fine = Confine.

Fine, as in "Stephen was annoyed because he had received a parking fine for being illegally parked, even though he had only been so for a few minutes while he popped into the bank".

Confine, as in "We had guests coming to our house later that day, so we decided to confine the children to the playroom so that they didn't make a mess in the rest of the house that we had just tidied and cleaned".

Answer: Condescend

Con + descend = Condescend.

Descend, as in "Whilst flying through a storm, the airplane seemed to descend quite rapidly before slowly regaining altitude".

Condescend, as in "My father always seems to condescend to me in front of my friends by suggesting that I am not good enough in various aspects of my life, and I don't think he realises just how much this upsets me".

Answer: Contemporary

Con + temporary = Contemporary.

Temporary, as in "The temporary roadworks that had been set up to repair the potholes in the road seemed to have been there for quite some time, so perhaps not so temporary after all".

Contemporary, as in "Fiona is an art aficionado, and is particularly excited to visit galleries that are displaying new works by contemporary artists".