consent
To agree to something or give permission for it.
consent in a sentence
- Did your parents consent to the sleepover?
- The farmer would not consent to campers pitching tents in his field.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to consent?
- Aforbid
- Brefuse
- Cagree
- Ddeny
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C: agree. The other three mean the opposite of consent.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to consent?
- Aallow
- Brefuse
- Cpermit
- Dagree
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B: refuse. The other three mean nearly the same as consent.
Words that mean something similar
agree, permit, allow
Words that mean the opposite
refuse, forbid, deny
More words about behaviour & manners
- contribute: To give something, such as money, time or ideas, to help.
- conventional: Usual and traditional, done the way things are normally done.
- cordial: Warm, friendly and polite.
- courteous: Polite and showing good manners.
- covert: Done secretly, so that other people do not notice.
- curb: To control or hold back something so that it does not get out of hand.
- custom: A way of doing something that people have followed for a long time.
- deceit: The act of tricking someone by lying or hiding the truth.
More words to explore
Sitting the 11+ in Kent, Medway or Buckinghamshire?
Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test