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Ten Words from The New York Times - July 3, 2013

Ripped from the headlines! See full stories here: Depth of Discontent Threatens Muslim Brotherhood and Its Leader, Crucial Rule Is Delayed a Year for Obama’s Health Law, and Sharp Rise in Women’s Deaths From Overdose of Painkillers.
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  1. autocrat
    a cruel and oppressive dictator
    “I think this is an existential crisis, and it’s much more serious than what they were subjected to by Nasser or Mubarak,” said Khaled Fahmy, a historian at the American University in Cairo, referring to the governments of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Hosni Mubarak, the autocrat deposed in 2011.
  2. throes
    violent pangs of suffering
    But its years as a secretive underground organization did not prepare it for Egypt in the throes of revolution.
  3. culminate
    end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
    The Brotherhood then rushed to a referendum on a hurried charter drafted by an Islamist-dominated conference, setting off a wave of protests that culminated this week.
  4. intransigence
    stubborn refusal to compromise or change
    The intransigence of the Brotherhood’s opponents helped deepen its isolation.
  5. machination
    a crafty and involved plot to achieve your ends
    And the Brotherhood, seeking to tighten its grip on power, favored “elite level machinations” — like neutralizing the military — rather than the public and its needs, she said.
  6. vindication
    the justification for some act or belief
    But Republicans immediately reacted with statements claiming vindication for their efforts to repeal the law altogether.
  7. repeal
    an official or legal cancellation
    Republicans’ gleeful reactions made clear that they would not cease to make repeal of Obamacare a campaign issue for the third straight election cycle.
  8. comply
    act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
    Formal rules will be proposed this summer, he added, but the administration will encourage employers to comply with the law’s reporting provisions in 2014, as originally mandated.
  9. hypothesize
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
    The study’s authors hypothesized that it might be because the most common forms of chronic pain, like fibromyalgia, are more common in women.
  10. inadequacy
    unsatisfactoriness by virtue of lacking necessary qualities
    Their feelings of inadequacy and shame over not properly caring for their children help drive their addictions, she said.
Created on Wed Jul 03 09:24:48 EDT 2013 (updated Wed Jul 03 09:30:58 EDT 2013)

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