Muslim hardliners ID London terror suspect
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: exploit, drone, zeitgeist, decorum, kidnap, affiliate.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Canon Fodder: Denouncing the Classics
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: supersede, perceive, priggish, stipulate, contemporaneous, posterity, reminiscence, exalt, aspirant, expectorate, hegemony, treatise.
Obama to push for transparency in face of threats
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: apathetic, disjointed, allude, lawmaker, decimate, irony.
Is Humbert Humbert Jewish? by Mark Ford | The New York Review of Books
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: annotate, confide, oblique, descendant, compendium, psychopathic, retract.
How the internet is using us all | TLS
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: anarchist, utopian, outstrip, immaterial, sardonic, autonomous, extol, predilection, empirical, pious, disparity, cornucopia.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: animate, kidnapping, abduct, plead, lawmaker, kidnap, renaissance, abduction, secular.
Ibsen’s Broken Homes
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: embroil, comport, flout, vie, dramatist, burgeon, animate, perceive.
Dominique Venner’s Final Solution
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: defile, repugnance, exhort, manifesto, extol, indignity, rife, rhetoric.
Empire States: On Pankaj Mishra | The Nation
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: ideological, pretension, furtive, betray, congeal, anathema, facile, scriptural, irony, proselytize, sage, novelist, materialism, moralist, ascendant, descendant, ideology, nemesis, castigate, modernity, spurious.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Hitler's Classical Architect
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: opprobrium, efface, pomposity, congenial, rhetoric, moribund, tome, afflict, lampoon, transference, cabal, ambivalent, unfortunate, revile, alienation, succinct, reticence, exalt, animus, idiom.
Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: docile, regretful, litigate, descendant, sovereign, gradation.
The End of Second Acts?
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: testimonial, reign, redemption, repentance, incarcerate, irrepressible, cataclysm, prescience, embellish, burgeon, dramatist, intractable, benevolence, desistance, reparation.
Opinionator | Disunion: The Civil War's Oratorical Wunderkind
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: enrage, domesticity, dwarf, misogyny, spinster, decorum, antislavery, denunciation, orator, entice, allusion, derision, novelist.
It’s Whitewater all over again
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: bureaucrat, aggrandize, craven, implicate.
Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: epoch, paroxysm, ascribe, precept, piety, witchcraft, ale.
Liberalism not at fault for recent scandals: Column
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: illiberal, ferret, indictment, dissemble, embroil.
Reviewed: Wozzeck and Don Carlo
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: pauper, pitfall, discordant, transposition, malevolence, heretic, grotesque, shrill, harrow.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Why Prosecuting Ariel Castro for Murder Won’t Prevent Violence Against Pregnant Women
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: kidnap, embryo, aggravate, concurrence, incarcerate, plead.
A Strategy for the Brand Management of Libertarianism
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: abhorrent, auxiliary, juxtaposition, permeate, subconscious.
BR — Pranab Bardhan: "Little, Big"
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: autocracy, burgeon, languish, pitfall, disabuse, panacea, afflict, emanate, austerity, empirical, pervade, amenable, liberalization, tortuous, nuance, decimate, caste, vigorous, tolerable, treatise, statecraft, correlate, homogeneity, heterogeneous, preoccupy.
Will Justice Be Possible In Guatemala?
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: embezzle, implicate, inundate, extradition, extradite, indictment, coup.
Ghosts of Iraq
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: enamor, decapitate, pitfall, bungle, exorcise, banish, apparition.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Pope Warns Church Against Closing in on Itself
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: courageous, apostle, disciple, reign, dissect, outskirt, papacy.
How Guantanamo affects China: Our human rights hypocrisies
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: violator, committed, enshrine, irony, emigrate, perceive, appreciable, ambivalence, collectivist, individualism, subsidy.