Con
Con verb - To commit to memory.
Usage example: usually candidates con their entire campaign speech, right down to the jokes they supposedly ad-lib
Study is a synonym for con in investigate topic. In some cases you can use "Study" instead a verb "Con", when it comes to topics like teach.
Nearby Word: cony
Study
Study verb - To use the mind to acquire knowledge.
Usage example: you'll have to study hard and learn all about the Revolutionary War in order to pass the history test
Con is a synonym for study in investigate topic. You can use "Con" instead a verb "Study", if it concerns topics such as teach. archaic substitute
How words are described
| human | human con | human study |
| old | old con | old study |
| good | good con | good study |
| complex | complex con | complex study |
| Other adjectives: original, actual, entire, real, little, psychic, major. | ||
Common collocations
| character | con character | study character |
| way | con way | study way |
| inhabitants | con inhabitants | study inhabitants |
| aliens | con aliens | study aliens |
Both words in one sentence
- In Catch Me If You Can, con artist Frank Abagnale pretends to be a lawyer who studied at Harvard, which works fine until he meets someone else who actually did study there.
Source: I Am One of Those, Too - An anthropological study of the Con Man circa 1935-1940, it served as partial inspiration for the original Mission: Impossible TV series.
Source: The Con - In "Biology 101" Jeff, getting unhinged after being separated from the study group, spots what looks like conspiratorial evidence of a photo of Pierce with Professor Kane (black, ex-con) and grabs it, confronting Pierce with it, who points out it's a photo of him with a famous rapper.
Source: Mistaken for Racist
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