🤝 Consensus: When Everyone Agrees
Quick gut check: what does CONSENSUS mean? A) majority; B) dissent; C) compromise; D) accord. Find the answer inside. 👉
Heads up: starting next week, every issue will end with a short quiz on the previous five words.
Five questions, multiple choice, answer key at the bottom. It should take you about a minute.
I’m adding it because of the way vocabulary actually sticks. Seeing a word once, even in a good sentence, won’t do it; you need to run into it again a few days later, and you need to pull it out of your own memory rather than just recognize it sitting on the page. That second, active part (the actual retrieval, not the review) is what the quiz is for.
So this week, read the words the way you always do. Next week you’ll see them again.
📚️ Definition of Consensus
Consensus (noun): general agreement among a group: a lack of consensus among voters.
🗣️ Pronunciation of Consensus
IPA: kənˈsɛn.səs (See IPA key)
Phonetic: kuhn-SEN-sus
📰 Examples of Consensus
Here are some examples of the word CONSENSUS:
“So what’s the consensus on the new APUSH teacher? Easier? Harder? Funnier?”
Our family reached a consensus: this year for Thanksgiving, we would eat out at a restaurant instead of spending all day cooking and ten minutes eating.
The Rogers Commission reached a consensus in 1986: the Challenger disaster was caused by the failure of the O-ring seals in a field joint of the shuttle’s right solid rocket booster.
🗣️ Common Collocations of Consensus
A collocation is a group of words often found together in usage, for example figment of one’s imagination, extenuating circumstances, or inclement weather.
reach a consensus
broad consensus
general consensus
build a consensus
emerging consensus
Quiz answer: D.