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reconcile
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reconcile as in:  reconciled their differences

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    The treaty helped reconcile the two countries after years of conflict.
    reconcile = made peace or restored friendship
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    It took time, but she eventually reconciled with her brother after their big argument.
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    She reconciled her checking account statement.†
    reconciled = brought into agreement (in this case, the statement from the bank with the record she kept in her check register)
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    He was supposed to seal the peace deal with a speech calling for reconciliation and an end to violence.  (source)
    reconciliation = making up (after a disagreement)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I couldn't reconcile his world with mine so I separated them.  (source)
    reconcile = make compatible
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    He and Mamaw separated and then reconciled, and although they continued to live in separate houses, they spent nearly every waking hour together.  (source)
    reconciled = made up and on good terms
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    For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely.  (source)
    reconciling = settling
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    But to depend on a government that must, itself, depend on thirteen other governments to fulfill its contracts would require a credulity rarely seen in the monetary transactions of mankind and unreconcilable with the usual sharp-sightedness of avarice.†  (source)
    unreconcilable = unable to bring into agreement
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreconcilable means not and reverses the meaning of reconcilable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "reconciliation," she said. "Athena and Poseidon together."  (source)
    Reconciliation = end the conflict (bring them into agreement)
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    In my struggle to reconcile my two worlds, it was an essential asset.  (source)
    reconcile = to bring into agreement (make compatible)
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    But that led to this hard-to-believe transformation: Mrs. Lepellier began to be reconciled to me because I liked her cooking.  (source)
    reconciled = brought into friendliness
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    These were the circumstances and the hopes which gradually brought their alleviation to Sir Thomas, deadening his sense of what was lost, and in part reconciling him to himself; though the anguish arising from the conviction of his own errors in the education of his daughters was never to be entirely done away.  (source)
    reconciling = making up (after disagreement)
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    I didn't deserve reconciliation or love in that moment, but that's how mercy works.  (source)
    reconciliation = being forgiven and restored to a state of harmony and peace
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reconcile as in:  reconciled herself to

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After the accident, she had to reconcile herself to life without loving parents.
reconcile = come to terms with
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    Though she didn't like the class, she reconciled herself to making the best of it so it would not keep her from college.
    reconciled = came to terms with
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    Now I needed to understand how the great gatekeepers of history had come to terms with their own ignorance and partiality: I thought if I could accept that what they had written was not absolute but was the result of a biased process of conversation and revision, maybe I could reconcile myself with the fact that the history most people agreed upon was not the history I had been taught.  (source)
    reconcile = come to terms with (get comfortable)
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    I'll write your letter myself. We can use your other letters to reconcile the writing styles.  (source)
    reconcile = make compatible
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    "But by all accounts," continued Glebnikov, "you seem to have reconciled yourself to your situation."  (source)
    reconciled = came to terms with (accepted something undesired)
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    I was really only trying to reconcile myself to the realities of Herbert's death.  (source)
    reconcile = come to accept (something undesired)
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    He lifted his chin as if reconciling himself to the decision.†  (source)
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    Stupid and cunning, ruthless and magnanimous-and that there must be some dominating factor that reconciles his two natures.†  (source)
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    We might think that the proof of some of these facts standing by themselves was subject to doubt by reason of unsatisfactory or contradictory evidence, and that other occurrences might be so explained or interpreted as to be reconcilable with innocence.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    But we heard Her voice within, crying to him of old, Her Laius, long dead; and things untold Of the old kiss unforgotten, that should bring The lover's death and leave the loved a thing Of horror, yea, a field beneath the plough For sire and son: then wailing bitter-low Across that bed of births unreconciled, Husband from husband born and child from child.†  (source)
    unreconciled = had not come to terms with
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreconciled means not and reverses the meaning of reconciled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    These days I script whole fights, in my head, and the reconciliations afterwards too.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Here we shall perceive there have been other flocks than those of our fold; that those we have excommunicated have been taken into that superior communion; and, in a word, that those contradicting notions and principles which we thought inconsistent with true religion, we shall then find reconcileable to themselves, to one another, and to the fountain of truth.†  (source)
    reconcileable = able to come to terms with
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in reconcileable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    It might be a question, why there are such differences in religious points, and why these breaches should be more hot and irreconcileable?†  (source)
    irreconcileable = not possible to come to terms with
    standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreconcileable means not and reverses the meaning of reconcileable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
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    It was so easy for people like us to think of great cities as natural growths. It reconciled us to our own shanty cities. We slipped into thinking that one place was one thing, and another place another thing.  (source)
    reconciled = helped [us] to accept (to come to terms with)
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