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- WHAT IS the origin of "salad days"?
- What is the difference between "plump" and "fat"?
- What is the meaning of "cul de sac"?
- Which of the following sentences is correct?
- How do you pronounce the word "blithe"?
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- WHAT IS the meaning and origin of the expression, "when the chips are down"?
- What is the meaning of "Teflon"?
- What is the question tag to be used in the following sentence? "I am older than you".
- How is the word ''malevolence'' pronounced?
- What is the difference between "nevertheless'' and "nonetheless''?
Know Your English - August 2002
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irradiate discuss | |
| Definition: | (verb) Expose to radiation. |
| Synonyms: | ray |
| Usage: | The government regulators insist that we irradiate farm produce so as to destroy bacteria. |
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  The Natufian CultureThe Natufian culture existed in the Mediterranean region of the Levant between 14,560 and 11,560 years ago and was unique in that its members established permanent settlements prior to the development of agriculture. While the Natufians were hunter-gatherers, some evidence suggests that they began to cultivate cereals after a sudden climate change threatened their naturally occurring food sources. Natufian sites contain the earliest archaeological evidence of the domestication of what animal? More... Discuss |
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 US Supreme Court Decides Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)In 1961, Estelle Griswold, executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, opened a birth control clinic for women in deliberate defiance of an 1879 law outlawing the use or distribution of contraceptives. She was arrested and fined. Her appeal made it to the US Supreme Court, which stated in a landmark 1965 decision that married couples had a right to "marital privacy," which included the right to use birth control. When was the same right extended to unwed individuals? More... Discuss |
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 George Szell (1897)Szell was a Hungarian-born conductor and pianist who immigrated to the US during WWII. Having already conducted many European orchestras, he soon became the principal conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. In 1946, he took over the Cleveland Orchestra and, by means of his famously dictatorial approach, built it into one of the most respected ensembles in the world, famed for its precision. Nearly 20 years after Szell's death, who complained that he still got credit when the orchestra did well? More... Discuss |
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 The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it—this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.Henry James (1843-1916) Discuss |
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