Word: comprehended
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...writer of the perfect essay is the exact argument. The exact argument proceeds from a previously elaborated thesis. It is ordinarily divided into two, three or four points. All complex arguments are also required to be reduced to two, three or four points so that the reader can comprehend the nature of the argument. Within each point, the author is required to marshal evidence to convince the reader that the thesis of the essay is perfect. In the case of the weary workers, for example, the author might cite personal discussions, even if the vulgar language contained therein...
...through the battles that followed the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954. "The people who were there...saw kids having to get marched into a school building by the National Guard. They saw a Governor standing in the front door. They felt things that I can't comprehend...
...Japan disputes over the years, concerning everything from auto shipments to whaling, this latest dustup may be the hardest to comprehend. Baseball is, after all, an American game. If the Japanese didn't want to learn from an American umpire, then why did they ask him to get behind home plate...
...sure you wouldn't have been able to comprehend the frustration of Coach Joe Walsh after going 1-5 in his last six games against Princeton, and of the possibility of losing the Ivy League title again to the Tigers...
...Every religion," as the great scholar of the world's belief systems, Huston Smith, points out, "mixes universal principles with local peculiarities," and the latter, he goes on, "are not easy for outsiders to comprehend." Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church was more often described as a "cult" before it took over 375 organizations (and Jim Jones' People's Temple is sometimes considered a church that devolved into a cult). As Scientologists do battle with the government in Germany, they could point out that religion apparently comes from the Latin religare, or "to bind"; cult comes from the Latin cultus...