① Those who are not compliant with the regulations will be put on probation and possibly expelled.

① A compliant child, he never gave his parents any trouble.

② The negotiations were pointless, with each side's representatives instructed by their home countries to make no concessions whatsoever.

② Quebec was a French concession to Britain in the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

② I suppose I will have to concede the argument now that you've looked up evidence on Wikipedia.

③ The hotel manager was horrified at how the guest had been treated, and approached him in a conciliatory manner, offering him freebies and apologizing repeatedly.

④ John Locke wrote that justice is based on the social contract, and I concur - in fact, my latest book is all about contractual justice.

⑤ While underage drinking is illegal, at many universities, it is tacitly condoned by administrations that neglect to enforce anti-drinking policies.

⑥ A ph.D. confer upon a person the right to be addressed as "Doctor" as well as eligibility to pursue tenure-track professorship.

⑥ Excuse me for a moment to make a call - I can't buy this car until I confer with my spouse.

⑦ A chocolate connoisseur, Mom eschews grocery store brands and will only eat 80% - cocoa - or - higher artisanal chocolate that is less than a week old.

⑧ I was unable to console Tina after she fell asleep at the console of her airplane and thereby failed her pilot's exam.

⑨ She consolidated her student loans so she would only have to make me payment per month.

⑨ As group leader, Muriel will consolidate all of our research into a single report.

⑩ The children strongly disliked being gussied up in constrictive clothing for a formal wedding.

⑩ Tourism is now allowed in North Korea, but tourists must stay with official tour groups, and their movements are highly constricted.

⑪ I don't know how you construed my comment as an insult. All I said was, "Wow, I never knew you could sing."

⑫ The death penalty is a contentious issue.

⑫ My uncle is so contentious that every attempt I made to introduce an uncontroversial topic met with failure - he ranted and raved about the weather, trees, math, and my daughter's enjoyment of oatmeal.

⑬ Virginia Woolf's feminism is hard to truly understand unless contextualized within the mores of the highly restrained, upper-class English society of her time.

⑭ A classic conundrum is "What's black and white and red all over?" The answer, of course, is a newspaper.

⑭ How to count the entire population accurately - including those without fixed addresses - is a bit of a conundrum.

⑮ I know we're driving to the wedding from different states, but our routes ought to converge when each of us hits I-95 - maybe we could converge at a Cracker Barrel for lunch!

⑯ For an opera singer, she is unusually conversant in physics - she just explained to everyone the purpose of the Large Hadron collider.

⑰ I am not here to argue that lack of education causes poverty. Conversely, I am here to argue that poverty causes lack of education.

⑱ Your argument is so convoluted that I'm not even able to understand it enough to start critiquing it.

⑱ To get from the hotel room to the pool requires following a convoluted path up twostaircases and down two others - to get to someplace on the same floor we started on!

⑲ Although she took copious notes in class, she found that she was missing a big picture that would have tied all the information together.

⑲ The fertile, copious land yields a rich harvest.

⑳ You're telling me you were thirty miles away riding a roller coaster when the school was vandalized? I have a hard time believing that - is there anyone who can corroborate your story?

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⑤ tacitly: 無言の態度で

⑥ confer: 【他動詞】 〈贈り物・名誉などを〉〔人に〕授与する，贈る 〔on，upon〕.〔対等の立場の人と〕〔…のことで〕打ち合わせる，協議する 〔with〕 〔about，on，upon〕.

⑦ artisanal: 職人技

⑧ console: 〈人を〉慰める (ラジオ・テレビ・ステレオなどの)コンソール型[床上型]キャビネット

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⑳ corroborate: 〈所信・陳述などを〉(新たな証拠などによって)強める，確証する ※ collaborate: 〈二人以上の人が〉共同して働く，協力[協同]する; 合作する，共同研究する