## Meanings
1. To make two ideas, facts, or needs fit together when they seem to conflict.
2. To become friendly again after an argument.
3. To accept an unpleasant situation that cannot be changed.
4. To check that two sets of financial records agree.

## Examples
- It's hard to reconcile his kind words with his cruel actions.
- After years apart, the brothers finally reconciled.
- She reconciled herself to living far from home.
- The accountant reconciled the company's books with the bank statement.

## Derived Forms
- irreconcile
- reconcilability
- reconcilable
- reconcilee
- reconcilement
- reconciler
- reconciliation
- reconcilingly
- unreconcile
- unreconciled
- unreconciling

## Related Forms
- conciliate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: reconciliō

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reconciliō.

## AI Etymology
Reconcile is borrowed from Latin reconciliō. Important recorded forms include reconciliō (Latin). Current senses include to make two ideas, facts, or needs fit together when they seem to conflict, to become friendly again after an argument, and to accept an unpleasant situation that cannot be changed. The wider family includes derived forms such as irreconcile, reconcilability, reconcilable, reconcilee, and reconcilement and related words such as conciliate.

## Topics
- Cause, Change & Process
- Actions & Processes

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