Word: comprehend
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...Sometimes there's just no point in trying to comprehend the incomprehensible...
These discoveries raise more questions than they answer. For example, just because scientists know dark matter is there doesn't mean they understand what it really is. Same goes for dark energy. "If you thought the universe was hard to comprehend before," says University of Chicago astrophysicist Michael Turner, "then you'd better take some smart pills, because it's only going to get worse...
...derided by the liberal intelligentsia as a Mr. Malaprop, a golf-playing, crony-loving dim bulb. But Stephen Ambrose, in his classic biography of Eisenhower, describes how Ike deliberately mangled the language to put reporters off the track or to get them to think that he didn't fully comprehend the issues. Ike found that he could accomplish more when people thought he might not be up to the task...
...What Erik achieved is hard for a sighted person to comprehend. What do we compare it with? How do we relate to it? Do we put on a blindfold and go hiking? That's silly, Erik maintains, because when a sighted person loses his vision, he is terrified and disoriented. And Erik is clearly neither of those things. Perhaps the point is really that there is no way to put what Erik has done in perspective because no one has ever done anything like it. It is a unique achievement, one that in the truest sense pushes the limits...
...What made last week's tragedy so hard to comprehend was the young age of its victims. Why this school? Why these kids? Ikeda Elementary School, affiliated with a teacher-training college, Osaka Kyoiku University, is a competitive preparatory school where kindergartners take entrance exams and interview for the coveted 688 spots. Their parents are Japan's educated Elite?doctors, lawyers, professionals?and the school is located on a spacious, leafy campus in a quiet neighborhood. Graduates often eventually go on to enroll in top universities. "If it were a person who had something specific against the school, maybe...