Word: comprehend
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...People will never be happy so long as their greed exceeds their needs and they don't comprehend the meaning of the word enough. Hart Sprager Portland, Oregon...
Pantano may not be a hero, but he is certainly no villain. Those of us living comfortably far from Iraq's front lines cannot possibly comprehend the confusion and sheer terror of confronting insurgents. Pantano saw an enemy, perceived a threat and was forced to make a split-second decision based on his years of military training and experience. A wrong decision could mean his life. There was no time to contemplate. If you want empathy and political correctness, send the Peace Corps. If you want to win a war, send in the Marines. But don't be horrified...
...these self-contradictions are difficult to accept, they are also the contradictions that make it so difficult to comprehend seemingly banal evil or, in Daniel Goldhagen’s interpretation, the willingness of the many who served as Hitler’s executioners...
...crutch that seemed to help at first ended up preventing Zailckas from standing on her own two feet. Smashed is the lonely history of how alcohol tore her life apart, in ways that anyone who has unwittingly hurt themselves or others can begin to comprehend. “In the end,” Zailckas writes, “I quit drinking because I didn’t want to waste any more time picking up the pieces. I decided smashed, when it’s used as a synonym for drunk, is a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...advised that it was necessary to read the book in its entirety to comprehend the larger picture. Touching on both the personal, political, and historical, Graham’s chronology of prayers (she shared such poems titled as “Praying June 6, 2003” and “Praying May 9, 2003”) build on one another and offer an insight into the poet’s mind...