Word: comprehend
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...halls. Statistics, however, remove poverty from the conceptual argument. For example, readers of this very page generally view the illiteracy that is characterstic of extreme poverty as the inability of individuals to read, when, in fact, the same is true for the inability of literate individuals to comprehend what it means not to be able to read. The challenge for readers of this page is not bringing others to understand these words, but understanding the lives of people who live without them. The same applies for a variety of other factors attributed to poverty...
...finding that children can comprehend abstract numbers suggests that different teaching methods might make math easier for them to learn, Spelke added...
...Everything Is Illuminated do not quite reach the originality and intensity of its comic passages. There is something conventional, not quite emotionally realized, in its evocation of the Holocaust. Perhaps the first thing people said about the Holocaust--that its horrors were beyond the range of art to fully comprehend--may be the truest...
...Guard Glenview, Illinois, U.S. Hiroshima is now a well-planned and modern city, but no amount of modernization can take away the fact that more than 60,000 people were wiped out in seconds by the atomic blast. I believe the modernization occurred because the U.S. simply did not comprehend the extent of destruction the atom bomb would cause and thus set about rebuilding the city to ease the pain and guilt Americans felt. Tungsan Yu Colombo, Sri Lanka Reforming Islam Irshad Manji's essay "When Denial Can Kill" argued that Islam might be motivating suicide bombers [July...
...that the bomber expects Allah to ask innocent victims to forgive him when he offers no forgiveness of his own. I realize that wars have been fought in the name of God for thousands of years, but in this day and age, such hatred is difficult for me to comprehend. I cannot imagine a loathing so deep and all consuming. Even more perplexing is the bombers' belief that they will meet their creator in heaven. What if they find that they end up in hell and that their creator is the devil himself? Mayr Malool Lake Placid, Florida, U.S. What...