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console
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console as in:  console her grief

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She consoled him after his mother died.
consoled = comforted
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    "You'll be alright," she said in a consoling voice.
    consoling = comforting
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    Whenever anyone tried to console me about my mother, I had nearly chomped their heads off.  (source)
    console = comfort (emotionally)
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    I want to console Al.  (source)
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    "There, there," C.C. consoled.  (source)
    consoled = comforted (emotionally)
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    "Tommy," Newt said in a consoling voice.  (source)
    consoling = comforting (emotionally)
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    He was dressed in black mourning robes, and his face bore the same inconsolable expression I'd seen when we spoke on the phone.  (source)
    inconsolable = too sad to be comforted
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconsolable means not and reverses the meaning of consolable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    All they had were nearly harmless consolatory vices.†  (source)
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    We must all console each other!  (source)
    console = comfort
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    She merely told herself consolingly, "Of course, while I'm in the wood, if I decide never to come back, well then, that will be that."  (source)
    consolingly = in a manner that is emotionally comforting
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    Clara's father had always been a self-controlled, circumspect man, but on the day that he handed the keys to his practice over to a colleague who later turned out to be an active member of the SA, he wept inconsolably.†  (source)
    inconsolably = in a manner that is too sad to be comforted
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconsolably means not and reverses the meaning of consolably. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Oh, time's a great consoler!†  (source)
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    MEPHISTOPHELES So long the poor boy waits a hearing, He must not unconsoled depart.†  (source)
    unconsoled = not comforted (emotionally)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsoled means not and reverses the meaning of consoled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    No, it is not thus; your form so divinely wrought, and beaming with beauty, has decayed, but your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy friend.  (source)
    consoles = comforts
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console as in:  plug it into the console

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    The sound engineer worked her console.
    console = controls (for electronic equipment)
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    Heatedly he banged a mayonnaise-smeared fist on the side of the television console, to no avail.  (source)
    console = a cabinet that holds electronic equipment
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    Then I grabbed my OASIS console, a flat black rectangle about the size of a paperback book.  (source)
    console = a small, specialized computer system with ports to connect video, etc.
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    Finally Tim saw a phone mounted on the side of the console with a blinking light.  (source)
    console = cabinet that holds electronic equipment
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    Right now in Tokyo, in Panama City, in Madras, in Honolulu, why, even in Winnipeg, red lights were blinking on consoles, alarm bells were ringing, eyes were opening wide in horror, mouths were gasping, "My God!†  (source)
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    Vogel looked up from a computer console.  (source)
    console = video monitor
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    So I could only talk to it using wall consoles.†  (source)
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    Not far away, inside Saunière's office, Lieutenant Collet had returned to the Louvre and was huddled over an audio console set up on the curator's enormous desk.  (source)
    console = controls for electrical equipment
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    He shook them away as best he could, squinted at the control consoles, and pushed several likely-looking surfaces.†  (source)
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    Chief Franklin's console received data from a string of sensors planted off the coast of Iceland.  (source)
    console = computer monitor
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    The insanely expensive golf clubs were here, the watches and game consoles, the designer clothes, they were all sitting here, in wait, on my sister's property.†  (source)
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    Arthur followed him in nervously and was astonished to see a man lolling back in a chair with his feet on a control console picking the teeth in his right-hand head with his left hand.  (source)
    console = controls (for electrical equipment)
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    There were several chairs that looked comfortable but not expensive, a coffee table that had once been expensive but now had a long chip gone from the side, two bookcases (stuffed full of Reader's Digest Condensed Books and Detective Book Club trilogies from the forties, Wendy saw with some amusement), and an anonymous hotel TV that looked much less elegant than the buffed wood consoles in the rooms.†  (source)
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