Poker Lessons From Richelieu | Foreign Affairs
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: bungle, banish, nemesis, statecraft, supplant, treachery, ponderous.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Who’s afraid of the big bad ‘lone wolf’?
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: existential, emanate, malcontent, exhort, anarchist, indictment, ideology.
Will Germany’s New President Be a Thorn in Merkel’s Side?
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: indignant, obdurate, moralist, propriety, seethe, moralize, pathos.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
New Statesman - Religion for Atheists: a Non-Believers Guide to the Uses of Religion
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: hydraulic, secular, atheism, virulent, toleration, fulminate, unbelief, theism, humanist, ersatz.
Column: Why angry Santorum can't win
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: indignant, martyrdom, lucid, whine, indignation, utopian, ebullient.
Blinded by the Michelin stars in their eyes
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: pretension, contort, risible, trite, excitable, culinary, bankruptcy, pernicious.
Why the Media Love the Violence of Protesters and Not of Banks
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: adjoin, avalanche, impoverish, pauper, pundit, able-bodied, frighten, implicate, promulgate, demonstrator, conflagration, reestablish, inveigh, catalyst, hideous, vigorous.
Scoring the Global War on Terror
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: drone, extricate, pacify, necessitate, accede, supplant, paraphrase.
Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: gratify, fluctuation, exaggerate, bureaucrat, pompous, espouse, fulsome, heretic, bankruptcy, incontrovertible, obstinacy.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Why the Nicolas Sarkozy show ought to terrify David Cameron - and delight Ed Miliband
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: austerity, eschew, impel, renaissance, inscribe, beguile, rancorous.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez faces an uprising at the ballot box
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: emigrate, implosion, partisan, modernity.
Op-Ed Columnist: WikiLeaks, a Postscript
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: ponderous, indictment, arraign, anew, dissolute, autocrat, entrust.
Campaign Stops: Is This the End of Market Democracy?
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: feudalism, subvert, culpable, lobby, countervail, contemporaneous, salience.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Germania: Hitler's Dream Capital | History Today
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: minion, superlative, grandiose, demolish, odious, aesthetic, fiefdom, misanthropic.
The Myths of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: A new film laments the housing project's failure for mostly the w...
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: demolish, characteristic, bilk, dissimilar, modernity, fallacy, benevolence, ameliorate, poignant, miscreant.
Give Me Posterity: A new biography of Patrick Henry reveals a complicated but exemplary American.
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: preamble, probity, propel, burgeon, betray, entangle, professed, eloquence.