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reconcile Now she has to reconcile her liking for her brother-in-law with the news that he was picked up for armed robbery last week. ˈrɛkənˌsaɪl

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(1) To make agree. (2) To make friendly again. In Latin, conciliare means “to calm, soothe”; thus, reconcile means essentially “to calm again.” Warring friends can often be reconciled by a nice note or apology. When you're faced with two things that don't square very well, you may have to reconcile them, the way a scientist might try to reconcile the differing results from two research projects. The U.S. House and Senate, in a process called reconciliation, try to produce one final bill from two different versions that they've passed separately. To reconcile yourself to something means to get used to it; thus, you may need to reconcile yourself to not getting to the beach next summer, or you may have reconciled yourself to the idea of your daughter in the Peace Corps marrying a Mongolian goat herder.

word	reconcile
definition	(1) To make agree. (2) To make friendly again.
eg_sentence	Now she has to reconcile her liking for her brother-in-law with the news that he was picked up for armed robbery last week.
explanation	In Latin, conciliare means “to calm, soothe”; thus, reconcile means essentially “to calm again.” Warring friends can often be reconciled by a nice note or apology. When you're faced with two things that don't square very well, you may have to reconcile them, the way a scientist might try to reconcile the differing results from two research projects. The U.S. House and Senate, in a process called reconciliation, try to produce one final bill from two different versions that they've passed separately. To reconcile yourself to something means to get used to it; thus, you may need to reconcile yourself to not getting to the beach next summer, or you may have reconciled yourself to the idea of your daughter in the Peace Corps marrying a Mongolian goat herder.
IPA	ˈrɛkənˌsaɪl

Reconcile Means Make Reconciled Agree Friendly Liking Brother In Law