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common or garden, workaday, undistinguished, unexceptional:
Intermarriage is a common occurrence among the members of the
sect. We planted a common variety of carrot. 2 mutual,
reciprocal, joint, shared: Our common heritage must be
protected. 3 low-class, ordinary, plain, simple, plebeian,
bourgeois, proletarian, run-of-the-mill, vulgar, unrefined:
Kings avoid dealing with the common people. 4 inferior,
low-grade, mean, cheap, base: He was smoking a cigar of the
commonest type. 5 public, general, community, communal,
collective, non-private, universal; well-known: The contents of
the library are the common property of everyone. Their romance
is common knowledge in the village. 6 trite, stale, hackneyed,
worn out, banal, tired, overused, stereotyped, clich‚d,
stereotypical: The term 'yuppie' has become too common to have
much impact any longer.
communicate
v. 1 make known, impart, confer, transmit, transfer, hand on or
down, share, pass on or along, send on, spread; tell, divulge,
disclose, reveal, announce, transmit, promulgate, proffer,
tender, offer, convey, deliver, present, give, yield, supply:
Moral qualities are sometimes thought to be communicated by
descent. I communicated to them the information that I had
about the missiles. 2 Also, communicate with. be in
communication (with), converse (with), talk (with), chat (with);
correspond (with); associate (with), be in contact or touch
(with), reach: Donald and I haven't communicated in years.
Instead of communicating with him by telephone, she did so via
personal notices in the newspaper. 3 get or put across, make
understandable; get through to, reach, be of one mind, be in
tune, relate, be in or en rapport, make oneself understood ,
Slang be or vibrate on the same frequency or wavelength: He has
difficulty in communicating his ideas to his students. We might
talk, but are we communicating?
compact adj. 1 packed, compacted, closely-knit, condensed,
concentrated, consolidated, compressed; dense, solid, firm,
thick: The sesame seeds are mixed with honey and pressed into a
compact block. 2 tight, small, snug, little: The table folds up
into a compact unit for storage. 3 condensed, terse, laconic,
close, pithy, succinct, concise, brief, compendious, laconic,
epigrammatic, aphoristic: The information is given in a compact
form with many abbreviations and symbols.