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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - November 21, 2012
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - November 21, 2012
Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - November 21, 2012.
Then see "Vocabulary Begets Vocabulary: The More You Know, the More You Learn" to understand why learning these words will help you absorb even more as you read.
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List of the Week: Quiz Yourself on Thanksgiving Words
List of the Week: Quiz Yourself on Thanksgiving Words
From pumpkin pie to Plymouth Rock, this classic Thanksgiving Vocabulary List separates the novitiate from the veteran. See how you stack up!
Noted by A.O. Scott for its "crowd-pleasing sincerity and...sheer visual grandeur," the film Life of Pi, based on the novel by Yann Martel and directed by Ang Lee, opens Wednesday in 3D. Before seeing the film, add a third dimension to your own knowledge of the story by learning Life of Pi Vocabulary Lists.
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If recipe suggestions pulled from several major US newspapers and Epicurious.com are to be believed, Thanksgiving remains a celebration of abundance. But unless you're someone who trucks in red fife, uses remoulade interchangeably with mayo, and refers to a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake as semifreddo, you might find the holiday to be more about an abundance of new words as much as it's about an abundance of food.
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Last February, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke warned the House of Representatives that "under current law, on January 1st, 2013, there is going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases." Now, with the election over, President Obama and the lame-duck Congress are trying to figure out a way to avoid the "fiscal cliff." But where did the phrase come from? And is the cliff metaphor really so apt?
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"The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language"
The Horologicon ("book of hours") is a reference book. Its author, Mark Forsyth (who writes the Inky Fool blog), says so. But it is a very unusual reference book — the kind you could read from cover to cover in an evening or two, and would, willingly and happily.
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List of the Week: Not to be Missed. Or is it "Mis-"sed?
Learn ten words and remember "mis-" for life
"Power Prefix #5: mis-" introduces misnomer, mistrial, misanthropy and other "mis-" words. Learn them and you'll master "mis-" for life.
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