Word: comprehend
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...suggesting that we abolish spring formals. All you hand-fondling, back-massaging, emotionally adjusted gaze-into-each-other's-eyes couples--please, go spend lots of money and dance to music I can't comprehend. But please don't invite me when you know I can't get a date and then act surprised when you find out that I already know what courses I'm taking next fall...
...student, one whom he hardly knew. He said that he felt a responsibilty, as a member of the interviewing committee, to see the matter to completion. Just as he knew no other way to contact a student but by leaving a message with the superintendent, so he could not comprehend the possibility of forsaking a personal matter once it had touched him. He felt an obligation to the individual; specialized administrative categorization was anathema...
...students who speak Spanish at home will do better in Spanish A than the one who never took Spanish before. This is no mark of genius. The idea that the Romance Languages Department should weed students out by using poor teaching materials or lecturing too fast for students to comprehend is ridiculous. Almost every Harvard student has the potential to learn fluent Spanish...
...recommend learning to speak, read and comprehend this esoteric language. On one hand, your actual resume may improve as your vocabulary soars. And even if your resume gets worse, you will ace the verbal portion of the GRE's, go to grad school and not have to worry about employment in the real world for dozens of years...
...women in the disco on the 37th floor of the Hotel Stadt Berlin in Alexanderplatz -- the modernistic public square where most of the demonstrations in East Berlin for this new, democratic way of life have taken place. "People are exhausted," says the bartender. "It is too much to comprehend...