Word: alife
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...Hassan was peppered with shrapnel and hurled into the air by an explosion. "I was sure I was fighting the Bhalkhel, so the last thing I expected was for bombs to fall from the sky," he says. When he regained consciousness, his best friend Alif Shah was lying beside him. "A fire was burning inside his chest," Hassan recalls. "He was dead." The tribesmen on the ridge were too dazed and panicked to count the bombs, but Kamil Shah, who watched in horror from nearby Zambar village, says "80 to 100 bombs fell that night." His brother...
...keep the lexicon manageable, Teachers Wright and Hofford have included only words with five letters or less, and though many are of foreign origin (e.g., baht, the monetary unit of Siam; alif, the first letter of the Arabian alphabet), most are eminently usable in the U.S. Botanists and biologists may already know about corms (short, bulblike stems) and wekas (flightless New Zealand wading birds...
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