Word: circumspection
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...that they get extra test-taking time. He was horrified by a visit to his granddaughters' prep school. The 12-year-olds, he says, "spend hours each month - directly and indirectly - preparing for the SAT, studying long lists of verbal analogies such as 'untruthful is to mendaciousness' as 'circumspect is to caution.'" Atkinson, once a distinguished visiting scholar at E.T.S., decided to take several SAT sample tests, hoping to find some value in all the kids' efforts. His conclusion: "America's overemphasis on the SAT is compromising our educational system...
...they say Fineberg is so ethical and so circumspect that the allegations he is campaigning for the presidency are absurd...
...fringe, as demonstrated by the IOP's recent invitation, an honor it would not have extended to a David Duke. Harvard students therefore had a responsibility to demonstrate that they do not consider Buchanan an acceptable part of the political spectrum. Although Buchanan has usually been more circumspect in his incitement than the likes of Duke, his history as a demagogue is just as long and unambiguous. Buchanan has repeatedly used the rhetoric of patriotism and conservatism to spread the cause of bigotry. For example, Buchanan's opposition to the Gulf War was perfectly legitimate, if not puzzling...
...complications can easily be dealt with if you're circumspect when planning your program," he said...
Staff for the vice president were less circumspect about the relationship between their candidate, and another high-profile black intellectual at Harvard, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates...