Word of the Day 2/3/13

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I'm back!!! Thank you to kaige68 for doing the Word of the Day while I was out sick. I still have a pretty nasty cough (and sound like a 2 pack a day smoker), but other than that, I'm fine!

Now for today's word!

Reconcile (verb)
rec·on·cile [rek-uhn-sahyl]

verb (used with object)
1. to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
2. to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable: to reconcile hostile persons.
3. to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.).
4. to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent: to reconcile differing statements; to reconcile accounts.
5. to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, cemetery, etc.).
6. to restore (an excommunicate or penitent) to communion in a church.

verb (used without object)
7. to become reconciled.

Origin: 1300–50; Middle English reconcilen < Latin reconciliāre to make good again, repair. See re-, conciliate

Synonyms
2. pacify, propitiate, placate.
4. harmonize.

Antonyms
3. anger.


Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.

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Some fabulous things have happened this week here, and we’ll leave some of it for Monday’s awesomeness, but there have been other things going on that have made me think, and thinking makes me ramble and … Well, you’ve seen me post at 5 in the morning so you already know.

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