concur

kun-KURverb

Meaning to agree

Memory hook con-CUR: minds that RUN together. Two dogs spot the same ball and race for it side by side, of one mind. When two people’s thoughts run together like that, they concur.

Both coaches concurred that the game should wait until the storm passed.

In context I thought the movie was far too long, and my sister concurred; she had fallen asleep twice before the ending.

Similar agree, assent, see eye to eye

Opposite disagree, dissent, differ

From Latin concurrere, “to run together”: con (together) + currere (to run).

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