Word: misinterpret
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...allow every professor in a school to give a different theory, as some people misinterpret democracy, you will educate cynics," states Gropius...
Somewhat akin to flat disagreement with the instructor is the system of deliberate misinterpretation of the question. The question, for example, states that The Dolls House is a great play and you must discuss it in terms of A, B, and C. You have not read: The Dolls House, so you state categorically that The Dolls House is a lousy play and discuss Hedda Gabler, instead. Presumably you have read Hedda Gabler, and if you do a good job on it, the grader can often be lulled into thinking that critical analysis rather than desperation caused you to misinterpret...
...role in the world. "Once upon a time we were a comfortable, isolated land," he said. "Now we are unavoidably the leader and the reliance of free men throughout this free world. We cannot escape from our prestige nor from its hazard." Vandenberg prayed that the world would not misinterpret U.S. motives. The U.S., he said, only wanted peace-but it must be "peace with righteousness...
...techniques are all very well, say the authors-but in their place. Laboratory data, they say, "are frequently surrounded by an aura of authority, without heed to the fact that the data are collected by fallible human beings who are capable of committing errors of technique, or who may misinterpret the most precise evidence . . . Even these data cannot release the physician from the necessity of careful observation and study of the patient...
...position. Harry Truman was quoted by Labor Leader David Dubinsky as promising, "We will not go out of Berlin." That was about all most U.S. citizens knew about their nation's developing diplomacy. But they were willing to applaud when Arthur Vandenberg warned the world not to misinterpret political differences in the U.S. After a conference with Governor Dewey, Vandenberg declared: "We are serving notice on the world that America is united to protect American rights everywhere...