1. Vocabulary.com

2.  Work together on a common enterprise or project  Verb  When you work together on shared goal, you collaborate. If you don't just split a project up evenly but work together on creating solutions, you collaborate.

3.  Awareness of and sympathy for another’s suffering  Noun  If someone shows kindness, caring, and a willingness to help others, they're showing compassion.

4.  An accommodation in which both sides make concessions  Noun  A compromise is a way of settling differences by everybody making concessions. If you want to stay out until 10 and your friend wants to stay out until midnight, 11 is a good compromise.

5.  (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with contempt or scorn  Condescend: Verb  If you are being condescending, you are looking down on someone. A 10-year-old who says to his sibling, "What do you know? You're only a 6-year-old!" is being condescending.

6.  Imposing or depending on or containing a condition  Adjective  Something conditional is dependent on other factors. You might receive a conditional offer of acceptance from a college, depending on your high school graduation and your maintaining passing grades.

7.  Someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (esp. in religion)  Noun  A conformist is a person who follows traditional standards of conduct. If you're a conformist, it's unlikely you'll join a revolution to overthrow your government; instead you'll argue that it's best to keep things the way they are.

8.  The act of coming closer  Noun  Convergence is when two or more things come together to form a new whole, like the convergence of plum and apricot genes in the plucot.

9.  Harmful to living things  Adjective  If something is deleterious, it does harm or makes things worse. Smoking has obvious deleterious effects on your health, not to mention your social life.

10.  A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudice  Noun  A demagogue is someone who becomes a leader largely because of skills as a speaker or who appeals to emotions and prejudices.

11.  A turning aside of course or attention or concern  Noun  When your essay about French cooking starts describing a childhood trip to Disneyland, it's taken a digression — it's strayed from the main topic.