Showing posts with label Vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vocabulary. Show all posts
Monday, May 5, 2008
Newsweek Vocabulary
Irreconcilable
Ir means not regular, re mean like repeat so not able to reconcil differences so like not able to work them out.
Ir means not regular, re mean like repeat so not able to reconcil differences so like not able to work them out.
Newsweek Vocabulary
Quintessential
Essential means absolutely necessary and Quin means five. So alot of something necessary. Also in the sentence it says postwar fantasies of men so its must be a good thing.
Essential means absolutely necessary and Quin means five. So alot of something necessary. Also in the sentence it says postwar fantasies of men so its must be a good thing.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Newsweek Vocabulary
Reinvigorated
Re means like to re do or do over and since he has gone for the postion before and lost there recearting him.
If there is one issue that haunts the reinvigorated McCain candidacy even more, it is whether he will start a new war with Iran.
Re means like to re do or do over and since he has gone for the postion before and lost there recearting him.
If there is one issue that haunts the reinvigorated McCain candidacy even more, it is whether he will start a new war with Iran.
Newsweek Vocabulary
interlocutors
From the sentence you can see that it must be someone important since whats its between. inter means like to be apart of so its a part of commuating with foreigners.
Fearless and righteous, McCain has long been known to unleash a lacerating anger on those who cross him- Senate colleagues, foreign interlocutors, even the interrogators who once held his life in their hands at the Hanoi Hilton.
From the sentence you can see that it must be someone important since whats its between. inter means like to be apart of so its a part of commuating with foreigners.
Fearless and righteous, McCain has long been known to unleash a lacerating anger on those who cross him- Senate colleagues, foreign interlocutors, even the interrogators who once held his life in their hands at the Hanoi Hilton.
Newsweek Vocabulary
unilateralism
For the original sentence you can tell it's not viewed as a good thing. Also un- mean one and lateral- means side. So its only one side which isn't good.
There will be no more ill- justified lurches into the war, no more unilateralism, no more George W. Bush.
For the original sentence you can tell it's not viewed as a good thing. Also un- mean one and lateral- means side. So its only one side which isn't good.
There will be no more ill- justified lurches into the war, no more unilateralism, no more George W. Bush.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Vocabulary Newsweek
1. Precipitously
2. When I looked at it I notice that it had violence and declined before precipitously. Which gives a clue that it means going downward steeply. Also that it is an adverb.
3. The out break of small pox precipitously lowered the amount of people living in the area.
2. When I looked at it I notice that it had violence and declined before precipitously. Which gives a clue that it means going downward steeply. Also that it is an adverb.
3. The out break of small pox precipitously lowered the amount of people living in the area.
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