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conducive
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    They want to create an environment conducive to both small business success and consumer protection.
    conducive = that contributes
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    Decentralizing power and economic incentives are conducive to giving new ideas a chance.
    conducive = helpful
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    Surely, things would be more conducive to a fair trial in six months.  (source)
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    In their heyday, these retreats were so conducive to frank expressions of sentiment that if one were to eavesdrop at their tables for a month, one would be able to anticipate all of the bankruptcies, weddings, and wars of the year to come.  (source)
    conducive = encouraging
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    Music was placed in this category, and Aristotle speculated in his Politics as to the profit to be derived from it, finally conceding that music might conduce to virtue by making the body fit, promoting a certain ethos, and enabling us to enjoy things in me proper way, whatever that means.†  (source)
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    What also conduced to Bagration's being selected as Moscow's hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city and was a stranger there.†  (source)
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    Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.†  (source)
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    That which taketh away the reputation of Love, is the being detected of private ends: as when the beliefe they require of others, conduceth or seemeth to conduce to the acquiring of Dominion, Riches, Dignity, or secure Pleasure, to themselves onely, or specially.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She conduceth" in older English, later they said, "She conduces."
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    A full stomach conduces to inaction, and the cub lay in the cave, sleeping against his mother's side.†  (source)
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    Unconducive"—and she waved a hand and laughed—"to industry and progress and so forth.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconducive means not and reverses the meaning of conducive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The necessity of naval protection to external or maritime commerce does not require a particular elucidation, no more than the conduciveness of that species of commerce to the prosperity of a navy.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    [When the ghost told Scrooge it had come for his welfare] Scrooge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help thinking that a night of unbroken rest would have been more conducive to that end.  (source)
    conducive = helpful (to a result)
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    And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one's health or one's happiness, in order to get up to town I have always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest, who lives in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes.†  (source)
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