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If someone is complicit, they're guilty of helping someone commit a crime or misdeed. If they're complacent, they're guilty of letting something happen even if they have the power to intervene or stop it. A complaisant person, on the other hand, is only guilty of one thing: being a people pleaser.
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If something is conceptual, it has to do with underlying ideas or thoughts, while the meaning of something contextual depends on its specific situation or circumstances. And then there's the less encountered conceptional that relates to the realm of ideas as well biology...
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Elicit is a verb that describes drawing something out from someone, like laughter or a confession. Illicit, on the other hand, is an adjective that characterizes something illegal or otherwise unacceptable, like drugs or forbidden love.
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