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- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, noun, adjective
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb, noun), Word Parts
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transitive verb |
| pronunciation: |
k n
skrIpt
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| inflections: |
conscripts, conscripting, conscripted |
| definition: |
to enroll by force of law in military service; draft.
- similar words:
- draft, enlist, impress, induct, press
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| related words: |
commandeer, compel, levy, press, sign up |
adverb + (v.)conscript
forcibly, necessarily
(v.)conscript
+ noun
army, boy, duty, force, japanese, labor, laborer, man, service, slave, war, worker
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noun |
| pronunciation: |
kan
skrIpt
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| definition: |
a military recruit summoned by draft; draftee.
The army needed conscripts because there were not enough volunteers. |
adjective + (n.)conscript
average, hard-core, junior, poor, reluctant, senior, soft-core, unpaid, unwilling, western, young
verb + (n.)conscript
compare, maintain, train
(n.)conscript
+ verb
allow, fight, force, refuse, serve
noun + (n.)conscript
barracks, brutality, demand, draft, immigrant, majority, military, officer, peasant, reduction, reserve, share, soldier, treatment, volunteer
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| pronunciation: |
kan
skrIpt
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| definition: |
enrolled in military service by legal compulsion; drafted.
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The word conscript
contains the following parts:
con-
Latin
prefix
that means with, together
  More about this word part:
The prefix con-
is an assimilated form of com- used before roots beginning with c, d, f, g, j, n, s, t, and v. See com-. Note: con-
is frequently an intensive prefix, as in " conceive
."
Example words:
conceive, concentrate, concentric, conclude, conclusion, condone, conduce, conducive, conduct, conductive, conduction, confer, conference, confidant, confide, confidence, confident, confine, confirm, conflict, confluence, conflux, conform, confuse, confusion, congener, congratulate, congregate, congress, conjecture, conjunct, conjunction, conjunctiva, connect, connote, conscript, conscription, consign, consonant, conspiracy, constant, constrain, construct, construction, contact, contain, container, context, continue, contract, conversant, convince, convict, conviction, convivial, convocation, convoke, inconceivable, inconsonant, inconspicuous, connotation, consequence, consequent
scrib, script
Latin
root
that means to write
Example words:
ascribe, ascription, circumscribe, conscript, conscription, describe, description, descriptive, escritoire, imprescriptible, indescribable, inscribe, inscription, manuscript, nondescript, oversubscribe, postscript, prescribe, prescript, prescriptible, prescription, prescriptive, proscribe, proscription, rescript, scribal, scribble, scribbler, scribe1, scrip, script, scriptorium, scriptural, Scripture, scriptwriter, scrivener, subscribe, subscript, subscription, superscribe, superscript, transcribe, transcript, transcriptase, typescript
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