Reconcile vs Conciliate

Reconcile

– verb-

 To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

to reconcile people who have quarrelled

• To make things compatible or consistent.

to reconcile differences

• * Alexander Pope

Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distancereconciles to form and grace.

• * John Locke

The great men among the ancients understood how toreconcile manual labour with affairs of state.

• To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

• Derived terms:  reconciliation

 

INSTEAD and INSTEAD OF

I. Instead là trạng từ có nghĩa: thay cho, thay thế cho.

• I have no coffee; would you like tea instead?
• David didn’t go to Paris. Instead, he went to New York.

Instead trong vai trò trạng từ thường hay đứng ở đầu hoặc cuối mệnh đề.