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The word concur is one of those highly formal ones that you might use to talk about a legal argument, or a medical diagnosis.
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"Concur" has Latin bits that literally mean "to flow together." In English, we first used it to mean "to collide: to crash together." But over time, we used it for more harmonious actions: "to happen together," and "to work together."
Part of speech:
Pick the common but ultra-formal verb "concur" when you want to sound serious, academic, professional, or businesslike.
"If what [Aristotle] means is that rhetoric needs to sound right, and good rhetoric always does sound right, and that 'sounding right' is impossible to set a definition for... well, I concur."
Explain the meaning of "concur" without saying "to have the same opinion" or "to come to the same conclusion."
Here's a writer for Scientific American, describing how a scientist and a philosopher resolved a decades-old bet:
Try to spend 20 seconds or more on the game below. Don’t skip straight to the review—first, let your working memory empty out.
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The opposite of CONCUR is
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