Word: comprehend
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...highlighted this trend with the statement, “Are you serious? We went from shrapnel to Gethsemane?” As the competition reached its later stages, the field was trimmed dramatically due to the appearance of words that not even Microsoft Word’s spellcheck could comprehend, such as fomites, skookum, and sialogogue. By this point, the number of contestants was reduced to four: Mass. Hall’s Athena L. Lao, Greenough’s Steven N. Maheshwary, Richard C. Alt of Matthews, and Pennypacker’s Ryan D. Smith. All four contestants spelled their...
...faith plays in the lives of many Americans—including intellectuals at institutions such as Notre Dame. While many agnostics might be loath to admit it, intense religiosity is not entirely antithetical to intellectualism. It might be hard for the card-carrying pro-choice Democrat at Harvard to comprehend that a young, bright college student or university scholar would object to Obama as Notre Dame’s commencement speaker. It is nearly impossible for many Ivy League intellects to associate him with anything but progressivism, hope, change, and various other inspiring motifs that the vast majority of young...
...addition to her erasure of socioeconomic diversity, Basham neglects to comprehend that her solution may perpetuate the alleged distaste of women for work that initially motivates her argument. The inflexible culture which drives many women away from the professional world is only exacerbated when men have full time “career partners” at home, streamlining their activities so that they can clock even more hours at the office. If Basham believes so strongly in her own hypothesis, perhaps she should stop writing books that encourage women to find security in renouncing their ability to support themselves...
Phoenix, Keith • failure of to comprehend impact of commission of hate-crime by - "So I killed someone - that makes me a bad guy?" - on public opinion...
...financial systems and deteriorating parts of the industrial sector that it may not have either the capital or intellectual capacity to go around. The Treasury has just appointed a prominent investment banker to help oversee the mess in Detroit, but it would take an army of financiers to first comprehend and then advise on what should happen to GM (GM) and Chrysler. The period for comprehension is already in the past. The trouble in the auto industry has to be addressed in the next few weeks or its capacity to operate will go up in flames...