An argument opposed to a proposal.

1. To fool or dupe.
2. (Old) To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.

Musical term, as in con espressione, “with expression”.

Confidence

ETYM Abbrev. from Latin contra against.
On the negative side; SYN. in opposition.

The logical device name for console; reserved by the MS-DOS operating system for the keyboard and the screen. The input-only keyboard and the output-only screen together make up the console and represent the primary sources of input and output in an MS-DOS computer system.