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Connate Kon Ayt Ko Nayt Adjective Congenial Congenital Latin Connasci

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connate /KON-ayt, ko-NAYT/
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adjective
1. Congenial.
2. Congenital.

[From Latin connasci (to be born with), from com- (with) nasci (to be born). Earliest documented use: 1641.]

“In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets and villages.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nature; 1836.

“Zyuganov had a connate sense of how to convince subjects.” - Jason Matthews; Red Sparrow; Simon & Schuster; 2013. 

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