No time to scour the headlines or watch the news? No problem! We’ve rounded up the top words heard, read, debated, and discussed this week. Some weeks can seem pretty dismal, not for what did happen, but for what might happen soon, as tension escalates. The Catalonia separatist movement appears vulnerable in the face of Spanish military might. It looks like nothing will mitigate the increasingly barbed back-and-forth between Senator Corker and President Trump, and the culmination of Senator Jeff Flake's career in the Senate involves flagrant name-calling with the president. But the story of an eleven year-old girl who invented a contraption that will help ensure the safety of our drinking water makes the world look a little brighter. Take a look back at the week that was, vocabulary style.
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