noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ clean ( esp. AmE ), clear , easy , good
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How can you do your job with a clean ~?
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I have a clear ~.
▪ bad , guilty , troubled , uneasy
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a dying man with a guilty ~
▪ civic , environmental , moral , political , social
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consumers with an environmental ~
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a government with no social ~
▪ religious
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a seminal conference on religious ~ and poverty
▪ tender
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I never knew a more tender ~ on every point of duty.
▪ collective
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the collective ~ of American business
▪ individual
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It should be a matter of individual ~.
VERB + CONSCIENCE
▪ have
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He had no ~ about taking his brother's money.
▪ appease , assuage , clear , ease , salve , soothe
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We assuaged our ~ by telling ourselves that they would be worse off without us.
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To clear my ~ and make it up to you, I'd like to take you out to dinner.
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After the meal she spent a week dieting to salve her ~.
▪ prick , trouble
▪ appeal to , arouse , awaken , rouse , stir
▪ shock
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a bill which has shocked the ~ of every middle-class community
▪ wrestle with
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He wrestled with his ~ all night long.
▪ follow
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I have only ever followed my ~.
▪ examine
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At the end of each day, examine your ~.
CONSCIENCE + VERB
▪ guide sb/sth , tell sb sth
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He felt his ~ telling him to apologize.
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It's important to let your ~ guide your decisions.
▪ bother sb , prick sb ( esp. BrE ), trouble sb ( esp. BrE )
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Her ~ was bothering her a little.
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Her ~ pricked her every time she thought of how cruel she had been to Kirby.
▪ dictate sth
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My ~ dictates that I resign.
PREPOSITION
▪ on your ~
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I'm sure she has something on her ~.
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It was on his ~ that he hadn't called her.
PHRASES
▪ an act of ~ ( esp. AmE )
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His decision appears to have been an act of ~.
▪ an attack of ~
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Best came forward because of an attack of ~.
▪ a crisis of ~
▪ freedom of ~ , liberty of ~
▪ in all ~ , in ~ , in good ~ (= honestly)
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We cannot in all ~ refuse to help.
▪ let ~ be your guide
▪ a matter of ~
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This question is a matter of individual ~.
▪ man/woman/people of ~
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How could people of ~ allow this to happen?
▪ a pang of ~ , a prick of ~ ( BrE ), a twinge of ~ ( esp. BrE )
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I had a sudden pang of ~ that I really ought to tell the truth.
▪ the right of ~ , the rights of ~ (both AmE )
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individual rights and rights of ~ on our campuses of higher education
▪ the voice of ~
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She refused to listen to the voice of ~.