Word: comprehend
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What made last week's school tragedy harder to comprehend was its inexplicable nature. Why this school? Why these kids? Ikeda Elementary is a competitive preparatory school where kindergartners take entrance exams and interview for the coveted 688 spots. Their parents are Japan's educated elite. The school occupies a spacious, leafy campus in a wealthy neighborhood...
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...
...waged against him by the ?lite classes. It was potentially rousing material, but the former movie star's delivery failed him. He was still wearing his trademark white wristband adorned with the presidential seal, but his swagger was gone. He looked defeated and confused, as if he couldn't comprehend these latest events. "Not even in my dreams did I think this could happen," he told a local television station. His widely disseminated mug shots showed the man once adored by a nation losing spirit, frame by frame. His sinking eyes seemed...
...late 1990s, Zackie Achmat discovered a new mortal enemy. He was diagnosed HIV-positive, and found himself among the millions of similarly afflicted South Africans looking to their new government to help them stay alive. But their government failed to comprehend the scale of the crisis and was paralyzed by denial - a denial typified by President Thabo Mbeki's extended flirtation with a discredited group of "dissident" scientists who deny a link between AIDS and HIV infection...
...bright, motivated students. Instead of being saddled with Harvard’s “laboratory geniuses,” they might instead peruse the online lectures of other colleges, digest the notes of the “classroom geniuses,” and efficiently retain and comprehend information. In the short term, this form of information exchange will allow for yet another resource to supplement where the Harvard experience lacks...