🇬🇧 Conspire meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To conspire means to secretly team up with other people to make a sneaky plan, usually to do something a bit naughty, tricky, or surprising.

My video games and the clock conspire so that five minutes of playing somehow becomes two hours.

My brain and my mouth sometimes conspire to say “You too!” when the waiter says, “Enjoy your meal.”

The markers conspire to dry out only the day before a big poster project is due.

My yawns and my teacher’s long lecture conspire to make staying awake an extreme sport.

Historians say real people once conspired to hide secret messages in lemon juice, but I just conspire to hide my homework under the couch.

Two children conspire behind the bakery, whispering plans. They conspire to swap a plain cake for a clown cake. They conspire with a stray cat hiding under boxes. At dusk they conspire, hands shaking. After, they conspire quietly, proud. The baker opens the box, laughs, hugs them — the small trick works and everyone cheers.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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