Read the word in context in the following sample texts, and then select the two words with the same or similar meaning. (Note: The sample texts are independent: theyre not related to one another).Specialists on the China-Taiwan relationship foresee a cycle of recurring tensions that intensify and abate much like an economic cycle. Chai, W. (1997) China after Deng Xiaoping [Asian Affairs: An American Review]Algerians of all political beliefs hope the spilling of blood will abate. But they agree that the struggle for the nation's soul is far from over.Viorst, M. (1997) Algeria's long night [Foreign Affairs]Distributed power has another advantage: during two storms in 2011, the campus had full power when much of the state was black. The State of Connecticut is now looking into the possibility of having more independent cogeneration plants scattered across the state to abate the effects of future grid blackouts.Langston, L. (2012) Breaking the barriers [Mechanical Engineering]

decrease increase mitigate raiseabate (v)These are some additional examples shown in real authentic context that will help you fuse the word in your brain. When you read the new word, also replace it mentally with a more common synonym.Some economists estimate that China's intense demand for metals will abate when its per capita GDP reaches $15,000.(2010) [Mechanical Engineering]Nevada enacted legislation that authorizes a district health officer to order a property owner to abate or exterminate mosquitoes or other pests infesting the owner's property. (2009) [Journal of Environmental Health]The next day, I was told not to worry; the cloudiness would gradually abate. It did, but it took longer than I was led to believe.(2007) [Southwest Review]DEP was charged with implementing stabilization/interim measures to control or abate imminent threats to human health or the environment from releases of hazardous waste.(1998) [Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review]All the Western democracies, in one form or another, face immigration pressures from the developing world that are unlikely to abate.(1996) [Foreign Affairs]abate (v)Become less in amount or intensity. Read the word in context in the following sample texts, and then select the two words with the same or similar meaning. (Note: The sample texts are independent: theyre not related to one another).The title industry's perennial protectionism has had a predictable side effect: corruption. Shielded by law from having to compete on price, insurers resort to bribes and gifts to real estate agents and mortgage brokers for steering business their way, deceptive front companies, phony "reinsurance" deals and other creative chicanery. Woolley, S. (2006) Inside America's richest insurance racket [Forbes]Much of what was left was largely in the hands of a couple of dozen oligarchs who had gained control -through financial chicanery, thuggish intimidation and outright bribery- of most of the business assets of the old Soviet system.Pearlstein, S. (2007) Oil, oligarchs and opulence; [Washington Post]Sincerity, trust, generosity, and even love have virtually disappeared. In their place, a culture based on chicanery and deceit has arisen, epitomized by the entertaining but treacherous saltimbanquis who prey on "the blind trust of the populace.Roof, G. (1993) The vision of Paris in the Recuerdos de Viaje of Ramon de Mesonero Romanos [Symposium]

dishonesty honesty trickery truthfulnesschicanery (n)These are some additional examples shown in real authentic context that will help you fuse the word in your brain. When you read the new word, also replace it mentally with a more common synonym.As charlatan "medicine people" proliferate, and make huge profits from their chicanery, Mabel's story shows us the truth about the ways in which the spirit(...)(1996) [American Indian Quarterly]From Bert I again obtained dramatic quotes for the record, and allegations of political chicanery off the record.(2001) [Anthropological Quarterly]As one gas-industry expert put it, McClendon's financial chicanery looked like "the subprime-mortgage market just before it melted down."(2012) [Rolling Stone]These critics argued that the racial status quo was achieved and maintained through violence and legal chicanery rather than through any innate biological difference between the races. (2001) [Georgia Historical Quarterly]When Putin came to power, he moved to curb the power of the "oligarchs," a group of industrial magnates who had deployed chicanery and political connections to acquire vast fortunes in the freewheeling privatizations of the 1990s.(2009) [Christian Science Monitor]chicanery (n)The use of tricks to deceive someone.Read the word in context in the following sample texts, and then select the two words with the same or similar meaning. (Note: The sample texts are independent: theyre not related to one another).Many Americans would like to believe that the Vietnam War was not lost on the battlefield but in the headlines. The Pentagon denies that it shares that view, but its actions gainsay its words. (1991) Looking over their shoulders [Time]It is true that the free market can coexist with authoritarian political forms, and indeed it has often done so in Latin America; but even so, that does not gainsay the fact that a market economy is the necessary (if not sufficient) condition for the emergence of a free and democratic society.Romero, A. (1996) Radical democracy [World Affairs]A group in Paris calling itself Americans for Peace has issued "Bulletin No. 1." It calls for a demonstration picketing the U.S. Embassy with such slogans as "Blood is more precious than oil," "Let the diplomats do it," "Make peace not war." Nobody could gainsay these slogans, but they don't suggest how to make peace or how the diplomats should do it. Lewis, F. (1990) Policing the world [The New York Times]

accept admit contradict disputegainsay (v)(v)Show Definition. Deny, dispute or contradict.These are some additional examples shown in real authentic context that will help you fuse the word in your brain. When you read the new word, also replace it mentally with a more common synonym.Postmodern critics of culture gainsay the cultural stability that anthropologists emphasize. (2006) [Theological Studies]Yet that same reticence enhanced the imperatives of sexual love, making such feeling almost tangible and certainly hard to gainsay.(2000) [Raritan]On the contrary, multiculturalists adamantly gainsay the idea of an identifiable and definable American culture that might form the basis of a core curriculum.(1996) [USA Today]When professional historians can't agree on what did or didn't happen and no documents exist to support or gainsay their opinions, why reject the historical novelist's ingenious guesses and fabrications?(1992) [American Heritage]That is perhaps because it is so axiomatic that no one can gainsay it.(2000) [America]

gainsay (v)Show Definition. The use of tricks to deceive someone.latent (adj)Read the word in context in the following sample texts, and then select the two words with the same or similar meaning. (Note: The sample texts are independent: theyre not related to one another).Hundreds of millions of people around the world have latent tuberculosis infections. In most cases, tuberculosis never becomes active, but the disease is much more likely to explode into a full-blown infection in people who also have HIV/AIDS.Douste-Blazy, P. and Altman, D. (2010) A few dollars at a time [Foreign Affairs]Third, besides the upward (or downward) course of the single individual, there is also, especially in Mahayana Buddhism, the belief in a general and inevitable upward trend whereby all beings will one day reach full sentience and thence enlightenment, whereupon all will have attained the Buddha-nature, hitherto only latent within them. (2010) Other religions [Humanist]Detections of pathogens remained steady over time, despite improved regulatory efforts. Characteristics of pathogens such as their microscopic size, cryptic signs and symptoms, and latent period render them especially difficult to detect at ports of entry. (2010) Historical Accumulation of Nonindigenous Forest Pests in the Continental United States [BioScience]Indeed, her latent sensibility may be awakened and tested in conjunction with Maria's narrative, enabling readers to witness her recovery of " feminine emotions " (253) and the virtuous action they inspire, but the character's own history unmistakably serves to check the powers of sentimental fiction.Tegan, M. (2010) Mocking the mother of the novels: [Studies in the Novel] Among these moral elements it is necessary to emphasize a sentiment which at first was latent but now has penetrated the environment: that is, the feeling of not having gained full and complete confidence from the higher authorities.Ungari, A. (2010) The Italian Air Force from the Eve of the Libyan Conflict to the First World War [War in History]Within market exchange the basic script must be the instantaneous market exchange in which nothing is latent: what you see is what you get, and you must have money down or in your Visa balance. Taylor, E. (1992) The taxidermy of bioluminescence: tracking "neighboring" practices [Anthropological Quarterly]Structural equation models are often represented by path diagrams, in which causal influences dictated by theory are represented by straight arrows from one variable to another. Latent variables are enclosed in ovals, while observable variables are enclosed in boxes.Prez-Leroux, (2012) [Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research]For engine repairs, Hartshorn may have to offer a quoted price just for initial diagnostic work. Other repairs are prone to latent problems that come to light once work begins. Daniello, V. (2011) Trust but verify. [Motor Boating] dormant hidden manifest obviousThese are some additional examples shown in real authentic context that will help you fuse the word in your brain. When you read the new word, also replace it mentally with a more common synonym.The team could classify people into groups -no infection, latent infection or active illness- just by looking at the gene activity profiles in the blood. (2010, TechReview)About 10 to 25 percent of people with latent infections had signatures similar to those of people with active infections, indicating that people with the active-type profile may go on to develop the disease even if their infection is currently dormant.(2010, TechReview)Though I'm in pretty good health, I have several latent conditions, including an autoimmune disease.(2010, Atlantic)Africans in America were in a constant state of latent or overt resistance to a system of white supremacy sustained by physical and psychological violence.(2010, BlackScholar)India has the size and the population, but apart from being the poorest of them all, it is trapped in a permanent conflict with Pakistan (and a latent one with China), which monopolizes its resources and attention.(2009, ForeignAffairs)

latent (adj)Show Definition. Potentially existing but not presently evident or realizedRead the word in context in the following sample texts, and then select the two words with the same or similar meaning. (Note: The sample texts are independent: theyre not related to one another).As writer Litsa Dremousis asserted in "I'm Mad at You Because You're an Idiot, Not Because I'm a Woman," a recent post on the women's website Jezebel, it's "time for more men to understand our behavior isn't aberrant, and for more women not to feel' guilty for not staying in the narrow range of traditionally accepted emotional responses."(Holmes, 2012 [The Washington Post])It appears this constitutional proposal is about a word: marriage. Apparently, some kind of civil arrangements will be allowed as long as they are not called marriages. What it really is, though, is a statement that homosexuals are to be officially considered aberrant and less than human. (The Open Forum, 2004 [Denver Post])But for dozens of other products -sneakers, spoons, bicycles, underwear, suitcases, drinking glasses, T-shirts, plates, and more- tariffs of 8-30 percent are neither aberrant nor temporary. In fact, they are normal and permanent parts of U.S. trade policy. (Gresser, 2002 [Foreign Affairs] abnormal deviant normal regularaberrant (adj.)(adj)These are some additional examples shown in real authentic context that will help you fuse the word in your brain. When you read the new word, also replace it mentally with a more common synonym.

by emotional discomfort and insecurity plagued by feelings of alienation and ostracism (Berk, 2007). A question being explored here is whether school environments tend to exacerbate those feelings. The general understanding of the experiences of Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, and Kip Kinkel (the school shooters in Columbine, Colorado and Springfield, Oregon respectively) strongly suggest that they do (Edwards &; Mullis, 2001; Smokowski &; Kopasz, 2005). # The Construct of Alienation in School Alienation is a term that is used to describe a state of disconnect or estrangement and aberrant behavior. Alienation is a complex construct with different significance depending on the discipline under review. In education, alienation refers to the lack of belonging and engagement of students in a school setting. Mau (1992) identified four dimensions that have guided the research of alienation in schools. They are: powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, and social estrangement. # Powerlessness. Powerlessness manifests when a student places value on a goal, but at the same time has low expectations of realizing that goal. Teachers and

To date, the aberrant religious ideology that opposes all secular government has developed only moderate traction among the large Muslim populations of India and the surrounding states of Central and Southeast Asia. (2004, ForeignAffairs)A production of a sentence was judged to be error-free when it did not contain substitutions, omissions, additions, distortions, disfluencies, aberrant prosody, or inappropriate pauses.(2011, JSpeechLanguage)Bin Laden was, in this view, less an aberrant extremist than a mainstream expression of Muslim frustration, welling up from the anti-Western nature of Islam. (2004, WashMonth)(3) the primary dependent variables were referred to as problem or aberrant behavior (e.g., thumb sucking, aggression, noncompliance, and disruptive behavior)(2012, EducationTreatment)The findings clash with some pediatric practices of the past decade and suggest that eating peanuts early might induce tolerance and head off the aberrant immune response that underlies an allergic reaction.(2009, ScienceNews)

aberrant (adj)Show Definition. markedly different from an accepted normRead the word in context in the following sample texts, and then select the two words with the same or similar meaning. (Note: The sample texts are independent: theyre not related to one another).

was sufficient by itself to induce massive dispersion of oil into fine droplets; the dissolution of water-soluble hydrocarbons; and the creation of emulsions of oil, gas, waterformation of the Beatles, the phenomenon of " Beatlemania, " and the eventual dissolution of the band. The last two chapters describe the solo careers of each bandrepressive measures and after the referendum abrogate the national constitution in order to prevent the dissolution of the country. statement, Ang Lee himself points to the global nature of the story of the dissolution of marriage and family that is a common theme in his work. The universality

connection disintegration partition unificationdissolution (n) ( (n)n)Show Definition. separation into component partsRead the word in context in the following sample texts, and then select the two words with the same or similar meaning. (Note: The sample texts are independent: theyre not related to one another).

can be. How do your characters talk? Are they stiff and withholding or garrulous and foolish? What clues do they give about their intentions by the way theythree associates, Michael Finnegan. The 29-year-old Finnegan is as reserved as Anderson is garrulous. His father, a St. Paul public defender, is a longtime friend ofto get all around every subject he took up. This could make him sometimes garrulous in conversation and cause him to bring in manuscripts forty or fifty pages longer thansame day? " Irritation bubbles up in Miranda. Had Valerie always been so garrulous? So vague? Had she, Miranda, always found her so annoying --during the conference call whether Microsoft might consider shedding some business lines, the usually garrulous Ballmer said nothing for a few seconds, then boomed forcefully that both he andseemed barely able to ask for a cup of coffee without letting his young, garrulous aide Gene Sperling speak for him. That was before federal budget battles,

chatty loquacious quiet silentgarrulous (adj)Show Definition. full of trivial conversationRead the word in context in the following sample texts, and then select the two words with the same or similar meaning. (Note: The sample texts are independent: theyre not related to one another)." Mmm-mmm, that's why you get an allowance. " Don't laud your kids for putting every penny in the bank. My son, Malcolm,lack of youth gangs, and centralized control of crime data. US diplomats laud the effectiveness of the Nicaraguan navy in fighting drugs but are less positive about theencourage greater liberalism and democracy in various countries. The U.S. administration can continue to laud democratic ideals in other countries through Voice of America broadcasts and to promote them increw, sensing his mood, had obliged him. But the human compulsion to laud success was irrepressible, and he accepted it with stoic grace. His ascendance towhen I see these titles, and others, I wonder. Did the academy laud these films for their artistry, or rather for their scale and popularity? In

acclaim censure condemn praiselaud (v)Show Definition. praise, glorify, or honorRead the word in context in the following sample texts, and then select the two words with the same or similar meaning. (Note: The sample texts are independent: theyre not related to one another).

A deputy received a 60-day suspension, with 30 days held in abeyance, in 2008 for repeatedly hitting inmates in the groin while conducting booking searches.Britain, Chile, France, Norway, and New Zealand-maintain territorial claims in abeyance, for the time being. Along with 39 other countries, they wait,Cambodia's application to join the WTO, filed in 1994, remained in abeyance in Geneva for five years. In the meantime, the Cambodians prepared for thetrillion times over. The glacier is coming and no power will hold it in abeyance. " I didn't bother writing any of that down; I was plentythe last two days they'd been granting entry to feelings they'd held at abeyance for months. They'd reached the top of a mountain so steep that the

activity continuation inactivity suspensionabeyance (n)Show Definition. temporary cessation or suspensionRead the word in context in the following sample texts, and then select the two words with the same or similar meaning. (Note: The sample texts are independent: theyre not related to one another).

to the form of the song. Identify introduction, verses, chorus, and coda. On a subsequent hearing, invite students to demonstrate when they hear ame, visibly excited. That is the last act, the morning's coda. We have been watching the play for three hours. The big cats abandonacross the nation -- - represents the welcome end to the Iraq War, the coda to nearly nine years of homefront prayers and faraway horrors, triumphs and setbacks,company is past its prime. The Gates era has already ended: this is the coda, says Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus, the spreadsheet giant humbled by Microsoftthe next. This scene, which closes the movie, is an appropriate coda. As much as the film's heavies measure themselves against gangsters past and present

beginning ending finale introductionabscond (v)Show Definition. the closing section of a musical composition