Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Vocabulary Lesson 9/10

Use the following document to help you get a sense of the nuances in meaning with some of the more challenging words from lessons 9 and 10.

https://docs.google.com/a/capeelizabethschools.org/document/d/1tZifF2f7qcygf2ZMWrktvwSLyvJ099QamPEYzf__z60/edit


Look up the following words in the New York Times.  Find sample headlines and sentences using these words and post them.

emulate
inextricably
intrinsic
reconcile
rail

assimilate
semblance
simulate
verisimilitude


30 comments:

  1. Overt Discrimination in Ohio

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  2. The Commercial and the Utopian: Can They Reconcile for a Woodstock Theme Park?

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  3. Baltic Russians Must Begin to Assimilate

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  4.  

    Imaging Core Lab Services for Clinical Trials

    Located in Boston, Massachusetts and San Antonio, Texas, Intrinsic Imaging is an
    FDA audited, ISO 9001:2008 certified and GAMP® 5 medical imaging core lab specializing in providing imaging core lab services for clinical trials.

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  5. "NEWS OF COINS; 1964 Mint-Set Shutoff Is Unprecedented"

    •~Dylan M.

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  6. Even if Life Is a Computer Simulation . . .
    By JOHN TIERNEY
    . . . we still have some real questions to consider.

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  7. A Grotesque Portrait of Our Parents

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  8. Hanoi Struggles to Reconcile Past and Future.

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  9. "Far From Beijing, a Semblance of Democracy"

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  10. A simulation, as he explains, wouldn’t have to include every single microscopic entity in the universe

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  11. Attempt to Reconcile Ivory Coast Ends in Shouts and Accusations.

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  12. "An extra session likely; Congress in an inextricable dilemma."

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  13. International Contempory Ensemble at Rose Theater
    The International Contemporary Ensemble is in residence at the Mostly Mozart Festival, offering adventurous programs.

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  14. Nets See ‘Celtics Way’ as Something to Emulate
    By BECKLEY MASON

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    Celtics Coach Doc Rivers, right, greeted Kevin Garnett as he left the game in Brooklyn on Thursday night.
    “The best cultures are the ones that have a system you can lean on,” Nets Coach Avery Johnson said. It’s best if “there’s no gray area.”

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  15. When Critics Railed at Dr. Johnson; Contemporary Views of the Stout Dictator of English Letters

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  16. Republican governors and legislators routinely rail against federal intrusion in activities that they think would be better managed by the states. This week they will have a chance to show that they really mean it.

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  17. School Computers Emulate Games To Capture the Attention of Pupils

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  18. A semblance of normality returns to Rwandan City.

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  19. School network honered for helping immigrants assimilate.

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  20. Theater Review; Tugging at the Inextricable Bonds of Blood.

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  21. They were interacting with a machine -- a plastic mannequin, equipped with sensors, circuits, tubes, and pumps, that simulates the reactions of a child 5 to 7 years old.

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  22. Virtual Iraq simulation created to treat Iraq war veterans suffering from PTSD.

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  23. School Computers Emulate Games To Capture the Attention of Pupils

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  24. Hedge Fund Lobbies Rail Against S.E.C. Proposals. -George

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  25. Verisimilitude- From the candles that float above "Hogwarts" dining room to the foreboding winged horses called thestrals that soar through "Order of The Phoenix" the verisimilitude of the magical worlds in "harry potter" justify special effects innovations in a way that few big-budgeted film fantasies do.

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  26. Nets See ‘Celtics Way’ as Something to Emulate

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  27. Pressure on McCain to Reconcile With Conservatives

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  28. THEATER REVIEW; Tugging at the nextricable Bonds of Blood

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  29. Three Ways to Help Students Develop Intrinsic Motivation

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  30. "Sometimes even wise people become blind to the simple overt observations."

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