CON Plus: Part 6 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Contact

Con + tact = Contact.

Tact, as in "The office manager had to use great tact when confronting the employee who had been off sick a number of times during the year, as he wanted to avoid any suggestion of unfair treatment that might cause the employee to take the company to tribunal".

Contact, as in "Since giving birth to their baby son, Mark's wife winced whenever Mark tried to have any sort of bodily contact with her. He was hoping it was hormonal rather than her not loving him any more".

Answer: Concrete

Con + Crete = Concrete.

Located in the Eastern Mediterranean, Crete is the largest of the Greek islands. Its capital and largest city is Heraklion, which is located in the north of the island.

Concrete, as in "Sally needed to see concrete evidence that her friend Graham was going to pay her back by the end of the month, otherwise there was no way she was going to lend him money to buy a ticket for the concert".

Answer: Constable

Con + stable = Constable.

Stable, as in "The sky was turning very dark, so Kelly immediately rode her horse back to the stable so that it wouldn't get drenched by the forthcoming storm".

Constable, as in "Whilst in town Bella had her handbag snatched, so she found a police constable and reported the crime to him".

Answer: Confound

Con + found = Confound.

Found, as in "After what seemed like hours searching for his old computer games in the attic, Carl finally found them in a dusty box, and spent the rest of the evening playing his favourite old classics".

Confound, as in "Magicians seek to confound their audience by performing feats that appear to be impossible".

Answer: Concuss

Con + cuss = Concuss.

Cuss, as in "Sarah began to shout and cuss when she saw her ex-boyfriend as she hated him so much after finding out that he had been seeing her best friend behind her back".

Concuss, as in "The burglar tried to concuss the homeowner by hitting him over the head with a baseball bat, however he swerved out of the way, and managed to tackle the intruder to the ground, before shouting to his wife to call the police".

Answer: Conquest

Con + quest = Conquest.

Quest, as in "Michael's quest to find the perfect girl for him took a new direction when he decided to start using online dating, as it opened up a whole new set of opportunities that he previously didn't know existed".

Conquest, as in "Perhaps the most well-known event that took place during the Norman Conquest of England was the defeat of Harold Godwinson by the forces of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066".

Answer: Conversion

Con + version = Conversion.

Version, as in "When she was asked why there was a big puddle of water on the kitchen floor, my daughter gave me a completely different version of events from that of my son".

Conversion, as in "Edward only had scales that showed metric values, whereas his recipe was in imperial measurements, so he had to perform a conversion to find out how much of each ingredient he needed".

Answer: Condole

Con + dole = Condole.

Dole, as in "After two years of claiming dole, Terry finally got himself a job working in the local factory".

Condole, as in "Fran took the day off work to condole with her best friend, as her mother had just passed away after a long battle with cancer".

Answer: Contender

Con + tender = Contender.

Tender, as in "Joe had stubbed his toe on a chair leg the other day, and he had been finding it rather tender to walk on that foot ever since".

Contender, as in "The main contender for the boxing title had not yet lost a fight".

Answer: Conscience

Con + science = Conscience.

Science, as in "James much preferred Science subjects to Arts subjects at school, as he felt much more comfortably working with facts and truths than with concepts and opinions".

Conscience, as in "Michael had a guilty conscience because he had cheated in his recent exam, so he decided to confess his misdemeanor to his teacher".