mindmap root((协调)) adapt implies a ready modification to changing circumstances: they ~ed themselves to the warmer climate. adjust suggests bringing into a close and exact correspondence or harmony as exists between the parts of a mechanism, often by the use of tact or ingenuity: ~ed the budget to allow for inflation. accommodate may suggest yielding or compromising in order to achieve a correspondence: ~d his political beliefs to those of the majority. conform applies to bringing into harmony or accordance with a pattern, example, or principle: refused to ~ to society's idea of woman's proper role. reconcile implies the demonstration of the underlying consistency or congruity of things that seem to be incompatible: tried to ~ what they said with what I knew.