adapt, adjust, accommodate, conform, reconcile mean to bring one thing into correspondence with another. adapt implies a modification according to changing circumstances.
//adapted themselves to the warmer climate adjust suggests bringing into a close and exact correspondence or harmony such as exists between parts of a mechanism.
//adjusted the budget to allow for inflation accommodate may suggest yielding or compromising to effect a correspondence.
//accommodated his political beliefs in order to win conform applies to bringing into accordance with a pattern, example, or principle.
// refused to conform to society's values reconcile implies the demonstration of the underlying compatibility of things that seem to be incompatible.
// tried to reconcile what he said with what I knew

contain, hold, accommodate mean to have or be capable of having within. contain implies the actual presence of a specified substance or quantity within something.
// the can contains a quart of oil hold implies the capacity of containing or the usual or permanent function of containing or keeping.
// the bookcase will hold all my textbooks accommodate stresses holding without crowding or inconvenience.
// the hall can accommodate 500 people