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An adjunct is something that is added to or joined to something else that is larger or more important.
If you have an affiliation with a group or another person, you are officially involved or connected with them.
If something is an anomaly, it is different from what is usual or expected; hence, it is highly noticeable.
An autonomous person makes their own decisions without being influenced by anyone else; an autonomous country or organization is independent and has the power to govern itself.
Something is concomitant when it happens at the same time as something else and is connected with it in some fashion.
If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, you combine them in order to produce a single unit.
A confluence is a situation where two or more things meet or flow together at a single point or area; a confluence usually refers to two streams joining together.
Contiguous things are in contact with or near each other; contiguous events happen one right after the other without a break.
A situation or thing that is discordant does not fit in with other things; therefore, it is disagreeable, strange, or unpleasant.
Things that are disparate are clearly different from each other and belong to different groups or classes.
A dissident is someone who disagrees publicly with a government, especially in a country where this is not allowed.
Something that is divisive is likely to cause arguments between people.
A small group or issue that is factious is controversial and promotes strong disagreement or dissatisfaction within a larger group.
One thing that is incommensurate with another is different in its level, size, or quality from the second; this may lead to an unfair situation.
When you incorporate one thing into another, you add it so that it becomes a part of it.
The juxtaposition of two objects is the act of positioning them side by side so that the differences between them are more readily visible.
Liaison is the cooperation and exchange of information between people or organizations in order to facilitate their joint efforts; this word also refers to a person who coordinates a connection between people or organizations.
A nexus is a connection or a series of connections between a number of people, things, or ideas that often form the center of a system or situation.
The propinquity of a thing is its nearness in location, relationship, or similarity to another thing.
If two people have established a good rapport, their connection is such that they have a good understanding of and can communicate well with one other.
Rapprochement is the development of greater understanding and friendliness between two countries or groups of people after a period of unfriendly relations.
A schism causes a group or organization to divide into two groups as a result of differences in their aims and beliefs.
Verb
concatenate
kon-KAT-n-ayt
Context
In his lecture on the causes of the Civil War, the professor connected or concatenated separate, isolated happenings together into a logical chain of events. Samuel had never thought about the events of his grandfather’s lifetime in this linked, concatenated way before. As he listened to the professor speak, Samuel finally understood how these separate events joined and concatenated into a chain of influences and reactions that produced the final conflict.
Quiz:Try again!
What is an example of concatenating?
Deleting unnecessary words from your lengthy essay.
Twisting together steel rings to make chainmail.
One word that has dozens of different definitions.
Nate's CatConesNate stuffed cats into large ice cream cones in order to concatenate them into conecat chains.
Examples
Then Jim came up with the idea of bringing together a group of established characters from different milieus into one situation and having them concatenate.
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The New York Times
Learn how to split text into separate cells or combine text into a cell using the split and concatenate functions in Google Sheets. Many people use Google Sheets to take text from a single cell and split the contents into different cells in different columns, or accomplish the reverse action, where you take text from separate cells and combine it into one.
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Tech Republic
Mr. Frost, inquiring whether Nixon felt that the invasion of Cambodia fueled the growth of the Khmer Rouge, uses the word "concatenate."
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The New York Times
Separate elements that concatenate “chain together.”
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