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 Chapter1 1

Defense) Perry declared that the credibility of the

Chapter1 international community (NATO) was at stake.
(TIME, June 5,1995, p.38)
accustomed ['kstmd] adj. used
unaccustomed
Even if they are willing to make the sacrifice in
available [velbl] adj.
dollars, whether Americans will give up long
accustomed personal liberties is another
question.(TIME, May 1,1995,p.68) Most of the (smart) cards available in Atlanta will
be worth between $10 and $50 and will be usable
instead of cash at as many as 5000 points of
purchase throughout the city.
affluent ['flunt] adj. prosperous, (TIME, Jan.8, 1996, p.13)
wealthypoor IC 10-15
Leeson and his wife Lisa never really seemed to 5000
fit into the affluent, neo-colonial life-style of
Singapore or into the citys multiethnic
society.( TIME, Mar.13,1995,p.40) bear [br] adj. ()
Meanwhile, pundits who do make a bear stand
dont last. (TIME, Mar.3, 1997, p.53)


ambiguous [mbgjus]adj.
bilateral [bai'ltrl] adj.
vagueobvious, clear
Truman got the Korean War because he was He would halt bilateral contact with North Korea
ambiguous, and Saddam took Kuwait because until Pyongyang resumed negotiations with South
Bush didnt say No straight out. (TIME, Korea. (TIME, July 8, 1996, p.29)
Feb.19,1996, p.36)

bland [blnd] adj.
As a result news coverage tends to be bland.
straight out (TIME, Feb.10, 1997, p.56)
anonymous [nnms] adj.
known, named blunt [blnt] adj.
So he went on his own fact-finding mission, Clintons summation was startlingly blunt: It is
leaning heavily on a 49-page white paper better to have reached no agreement (on Japans
submitted last month by three anonymous opening it domestic market) than to have reached
high-tech firms. (TIME, Feb.27, 1995, p.31) an empty agreement.
(TIME, Feb.21, 1994, p.41)
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appropriate [propret] adj.
inappropriate bull [bul] adj.
So any protein that dissolves new blood vessels
may not be appropriate for younger women who The bull market will end-----but when is the
have not yet entered menopause. (TIME, Jan.9, question. (TIME, Mar.3, 1997, p.53)
1996, p.60)
burgeoning ['bdni] adj.

Genetic information is the raw material of the

at stake [t stek] burgeoning biotechnology industry, which uses
at risk human DNA to build specialized proteins that may
At a news conference,(U.S. Undersecretary of have some value as disease-fighting drugs.
(TIME, Jan.16, 1995, p.54)
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traditional unconventional
DNA The voice-recognition technology will not be on
conventional desktop computers only; it will be
available in any sort of electronic information
coherent [kohrnt] adj.
processing device. (TIME, July 17, 1995, p.44)
muddled, incoherent
Curry impressed Clinton with his ability to
fashion a coherent policy message that
critical [krtkl] adj.
synthesized the often conflicting interests of the
partys traditional and moderate wings. crucial
(TIME, June 5, 1995, p.22) We have only the foggiest idea, the independent
daily Segodnya complained last week, who is
actually at the helm in this country, who is making
the critical decisions.

(TIME, Jan.9, 1995, p.50)

fashion v. synthesize v.

comprehensive [kmprhnsv] adj.
complete partial
Grove delivered a sharp, comprehensive report. foggy adj.
His bosses were impressed.
crucial [krul] adj.
(TIME, Dec.29, 1997- Jan.5, 1998, p.33)
critical
Understanding social cues, creating works of art

and spawning inventions are all crucial mental

compulsory [km'plsr] adj. tasks that bear little relationship to how well a
mandatory person can fill in a printed test form.
In 1919 while serving a compulsory stint in the (TIME, Sept. 11, 1995, p.60)
military, Nurmi entered a 20-k march carrying a
rifle, a cartridge belt and a knapsack filled with 5
kg of sand. (TIME, June 24, 1996, p.66)
1919
cunning [kn] adj.
5
crafty
20 Perhaps the most cunning Disney trick is to take
stint n. fairy tales in the public domain and reinvent them
conciliatory [knsltr] adj. as corporate property. A billion-dollar example is
The executive director of the Christian Coalition Beauty and the Beast
told a prominent Jewish audience, in a (TIME, May 2, 1994, p.72)
conciliatory speech, that calling the U.S. a
Christian nation is wrong
(TIME, Apr.17, 1995, p.13) 10

dazzling [dzl] adj.
stunning
conscious [kns] adj. With computers doubling in speed and power
aware every couple of years and with genetic
Times Books recently announced that it will engineerings dazzling feats growing more and
publish a book of socially-conscious poetry by more routine, the battered American faith in
former President Jimmy Carter. (TIME, July 18, technologic progress has been growing stronger
1994, p.9) and giddier of late. (TIME, May 27, 1996, p.67)


conventional [knvnnl] adj.

 Chapter1 3

batter v. dominant [dmnnt] adj.

dedicated [dedketd] adj. pre-eminent
In Singapore, dedicated Net users are planning to Now as then, the splintering of a Saddam-less Iraq
maintain unfettered access by junping borders and would leave Iran the dominant gulf power, an
dialing services in neighboring Malaysia. (TIME, unpalatable solution. (TIME, Sept.23, 1996, p.35)
Sept.23, 1996, p.27)


splinter v. unpalatable adj.
desperate [dsprt] adj.
Bereft of patrons, desperate to rescue his economy, doomed [dumd] adj.
Fidel Castro turns to an unusual solution: He started at the top, of course, but the fact that he
(TIME, Feb.20, 1995, p.50) is staying there has frustrated the popular wisdom
that an early front runner is doomed to fall. (TIME,
June 5, 195, p.29)
to be bereft of
determined [dtmnd] adj.

Author Joe Kane came across a determined priest,
a Spaniard who had spent years teaching a tribe of
hunter gatherers, the Huaorani, how to survive wisdom n. front runner
outside their rainforest habitat.
(TIME, Mar.25, 1996, p.70) adj.
At the beginning of May 1945 it was clear to even
the most zealous of Hitlers followers that his
Thousand Year Reich was doomed. (TIME, May
15, 1995, p.52)
1945 5
disabled [dsebld] adj.

handicapped
Seven years ago, Dole spoke about the need to drastic [drstk] adj. radical
provide care and assistance for the hungry and The New Deal welfare safety net installed in the
the homeless and the disabled. Nothing 1930s and augmented in the Great Society
resembling that was heard last week. programs of the 1960s has been hauled off for the
(TIME, Apr.24, 1995, p.52) kind of drastic restitching that France, Germany,
7 Italy and Sweden have been laboring over for the
past year or more. (TIME, Aug.12, 1996, p.25)
1930
1060
disastrous [dzstrs] adj.

terrible
The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the

Northridge tremor but more disastrous.
(TIME, Jan.30, 1995, p.34) augment v. to haul off
restitching n.
eccentric [ksntrk] adj.
distinct [dstkt] adj. odd
Many scientists consider the Khoisan a distinct The eccentric, fact-based best seller Midnight in
race of very ancient organ. the Garden of Good and Evil sparks a rush to see
(TIME, Jan.16, 1995, p.54) where it all took place. (TIME, Apr.3, 1995, p.79)



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elevated [lvetd] adj. Hollywoods most daring and extravagant auteur?

(TIME, July 18, 1994, p.55)
It turns out, however, that not every man who

reached the pinnacle of American leadership was a
gleaming example of self-awareness, empathy,
impulse control and other qualities that mark an befall v. auteur n.
elevated EQ. (TIME, Oct.9, 1995, p.30)
fantastic [fntstk] adj.

Because of its fantastic capacity to see all possible
elite [lit] adj. n. combinations some distance into the future, the
Ideally, the U.N. should have a small, elite, machine (Deep Blue), once it determines that its
standing rapid-development force trained and own position is safe, can take the kind of attacking
ready to go at once to a trouble spot that the chances no human would. (TIME, Feb.26, 1996,
Security Council has decided to become involved p.42)
in.
(TIME, Oct.23, 1995, p.30)

ferocious [fros] adj.
This puts Clinton in something of a no-win
enduring [ndur] adj. situation: he is unlikely to gain much credit if the
The plain, undecorated object, representing the bailout succeeds, but will catch ferocious flak if it
enduring role art has played throughout Chinas fails. (TIME, Mar.6, 1995, p.34)
history, takes pride of place in the sumptuous
Splendors of Imperial China, which opened last
week at New York City Metropolitan Museum of
Art. (TIME, Apr.1, 1996, p.47) flak n.
flamboyant [flmbnt] adj.

He is probably the least flamboyant of the

Republican contenders. (TIME, Mar.13, 1995,
to take pride of place p.86)

sumptuous adj. fledgling [fldl] adj.
explicit [ksplst] adj.
But they wont be able to filter the Internet. Early in this century, a fledgling effort at
Theyre explicit about that. behavioral genetics divided people into such
(TIME, Feb.17, 1997, p.46) classes as mesomorphs physically robust,
psychologically assertive and
ectomorphsskinny, nervous, sky. (TIME,
exquisite [kskwzt] adj. Mar.10, 1997, p.41)

The show also includes an exquisite Seurat

seascape, some notable Czannes and
considerable painting by Courbet, Gauguin, Van
Gogh and others. (TIME, Apr.3, 1995, p.54)
assertive adj.
fluid [flud] adj.
changeable
extravagant [kstrvnt] adj. Information is now too fluid to control. It
flows in over airways, via satellites, through
Could this fate befall James Cameron, microwave relays to cellular phones, faxes,
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televisions, radios, beepers, modems. 3

(TIME, Aug.19, 1996, p.52) angle v.
to angle for

stardom n.

hostile [hstl] adj. antagonistic

formidable [frmdbl] adj. receptive
Unlike most baseball-playing countries, Cuba has
Perot as kingmaker, he says tactfully, is a more no professional league to cream off its top talent,
formidable proposition than Perot as candate. and hostile relations with Washington keep its elite
(TIME, Mar.13, 1995, p.91) from migrating to the U.S. major league.
(TIME, Feb.5, 1996, p.13)

kingmaker n.
proposition n.

fragile [frdl] adj. to cream off
unstable
A revenue-generating franchise is the most fragile immense [mns] adj. enormous
thing in the world No matter how good your His influence in the 1980s was so immense that
product, you are only 18 months away from Taiwanese distributors once asked a Hong Kong
failure. (TIME, June 5, 1995, p.32) director if there was a role in a film for Chow
Yun-fat, and if there wasnt, theyd commit to a
18 deal. (TIME, May 6, 1996, p.62)
80

futile [fjutl] adj.

pointless

Indeed, for all the worlds governments,
to commit (oneself) to
attempts to control the global flow of
electro-information are not only futile but counter imminent [mnnt] adj.
productive as well. The time will come when the U.S. will subside to
(TIME, Spring 1995 Special Issue: Welcome to become but one of many Great Powers. It is
Cyberspace, p.80) inevitable, but it is not imminent. (TIME, Aug.4,
1997, p.21)


genuine [dnjn] adj. 1.2. subside v.
inaugural [njrl] adj.
1.real 2.sincere fake After the oath, he gave an inaugural address
It is a challenge to portray a forsaken woman in a designed to reach out to all Americans, to rally the
way that evokes genuine sympathy; but Stevens nation to work together for a great common future.
manages. (TIME, Feb.6, 1995, p.75) (TIME, Jan.16, 1995, p.24)



hefty [hft] adj.
Chow Yun Fat is angling for Hollywood stardom; indifferent [ndfrnt] adj.
this time next year he could be in any of three concerned
hefty action films. (TIME, June 29, 1996, p40) Chechen militiamen hiding around the corner are
indifferent to the Russians fate.
(TIME, Jan.16, 1995, p.46)
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undergraduate programmer had helped create the

then obscure browsing software Mosaic, which
around the corner made it easy to navigate the World Wide Web.
(TIME, June 17, 1996, p.16)
intact [] adj. in one piece

But psychologists, psychiatrists and other
scientists are bitterly divided over the idea that the
memory of repeated abuse can be completely
wiped out and then recovered, virtually intact. obsolete [bslit] adj.
(TIME, Apr.17, 1995, p.54) outdated
Indeed, your average computer is virtually
obsolete by the time it is skipped from the factory
to the retail store. (TIME, Nov.11, 1996, p.16)

lingering [lgr] adj.
What remains largely unspoken is the lingering ominous [mns] adj.
hope that such a mission might experience, meanacing
somewhere beneath the desolate Martian surface, Observers are not surprised that business is
a close encounter with organisms that are alive flourishing despite the ominous political situation.
today. (TIME, Aug.19, 1996, p.44) (TIME, Feb.12, 1996, p.18)

ostensibly [stnsbl] adv.

mean [min] adj. At 3:33 a.m., it touched down at Marseilles,
This bill is mean. It is downright low-down. What ostensibly for a refueling stop.
does it profit a great nation to conquer the world, (TIME, Jan.9, 1955, p.54)
only to lose its soul? (TIME, Aug.12, 1996, p.25) 3 33

outspoken [atspokn] adj.

forthright
downright adv.
When he (Magic Johnson) tried to make a
low-down adj.
comeback in the fall of 92, the fears of some
mutual [mjutl] adj. outspoken N.B.A. players forced him to call it off.
That audience was amazing, he says. They (TIME, Feb.12, 1996, p.39)
were so sweet. They were bathing us in affection. 1992 N.B.A.
To prove the feeling is mutual, he heads back out
into the spotlight. (TIME, Nov.11, 1996, p.16)
comeback n.

pending [pnd] adj.

namely [neml] adv. that is According the chairman, there are dozens of suits
Namely, he fails to take into account Quittners pending against the company.
Law, which says: It is impossible to pay less than (TIME, June 5, 1995, p.46)
$3000 for this years computer. (TIME, Nov.11,
1996, p.26)

perpetual [pptl] adj.

3000
permanent continual
California, locked in a perpetual automotive smog,
obscure [bskjr] adj. requires that by 2003, 10% of the cars offered for
unknown sale in the state produce zero emissions (TIME,
Hed met Marc Andreessen, who as an Sept.23, 1996, p.41)
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previous [privs] adj.

2003 But it is known that Senator Kennedy gave a toast
10% more poignant than the one the previous evening.
persistent [] adj. (TIME, Oct.7, 1996, p.42)
A small but persistent group of critics, many of
them supported by the oil and coal industries, still
dont buy it. (TIME, July 8, 1996, p.41)
primary [pramr] adj.

Sigmund Freud dismissed religious mysticism as
infantile helplessness and regression to primary
persuasive [pswesv] adj. narcissism. (TIME, June 24, 1996, p.39)
Could it be that religious faith has some direct
influence on physiology and health? Harvards
Herbert Benson is probably the most persuasive regression n.
proponent of this view.
(TIME, June 24, p.40) profound [prfand] adj. 1. 2.

1. great 2. deep shallow
By creating breakthroughs in agriculture and
disease-fighting, the manipulation of DNA should
pervasive [pvesv] adj.
lead to profound improvements in human health.
The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called (TIME, July 17, 1995, p.40)
corruption in the (police) department pervasive, DNA
rampant and systemic. (TIME, Mar.20, 1995,

p.45)
prominent [prmnnt] adj.
well-known
Abe Lincoln was a prominent railroad lawyer in
systemic adj. 1860, but he campaigned for the White House as
the simple Midwestern rail-splitter. (TIME, June
phony [fon] adj. 10, 1996, p.58)
A police raid on a Tokyo trading company netted 1860
2000 pieces of counterfeit Nike merchandise,
including phony Air Maxes. (TIME, Oct.7, 1996,
p.12) promising [prmsn] adj.
2000 unpromising
Air Maxes On the horizon are the remedies that may prove
more promising. (TIME, Apr.3, 1995, p.62)

net v. counterfeit adj.
on the horizon
poignant [pnjnt] adj.
radical [rdkl] adj. 1. 2.
moving
Thats sort of a poignant irony. (TIME, Feb.20, 3.
1995, p.38) fundamental conservative
reactionary
to be sort of More than at any other time in the past 25 years,
men are living in a state of radical disconnection
preliminary [prlmnr] adj. from the women-and-children part of the human
The American Society of Travel Agents said in a race. (TIME, May 6, 1996, p.53)
preliminary estimate that as many as 10000 of its 25
25000 members could be put out of business.
(TIME, Feb.27, 1995, p.47)
rebel [rbl] adj. n. v.
2.5
1 Yeltsin ruled out direct peace talks with rebel
 Chapter1 8

leader Jokhar Dudayev. (TIME, Jan.30, 1995,

p.15)
reminisce v.

sensible [snsbl] adj.

to rule out
Sensible is not the criterion for a placard.
reckless [rkls] adj. (TIME, Mar.13, 1995, p.31)
Sports equipment designed to make football safer
encouraged more reckless moves and ended up criterion n. ()
making the sport more dangerous than unpadded,
sensitive [snstv] adj.
unhelmeted rugby. (TIME, May 27, 1996, p.67)
The following year, Woos A Better Tomorrow
introduced Chow Yun-fat as the sullen, brutal
antihero and Cheung as his sensitive counterpart.
(TIME, Jan.29, 1996, p.40)

to end up

reminiscent (of) [rmnsnt] adj.

Last week 21 orphans and 13 Red Cross workers shrewd [rud] adj.
trying to guard them were murdered: in a scene
reminiscent of Nazi Germany. the children were Mailers research and his shrewd eye lead him to
picked out of a group of 500 simply because they believe that Oswald did kill Kennedy and
looked like Tutsi. (TIME, May 16, 1994, p.56) that he acted alone. (TIME, May 1, 1995, p.94)
21 13
500

significant [] adj.
renowned [rnaund] adj. important insignificant
The Presidents ambition to stand taller in the
With his boyish face and slender build, he (David
world faces one significant U.S. made handicap:
Ho) could more easily pass for a teenager than for
brutal cutbacks in funding American foreign
a 44-year-old father of three ---- or, for that matter,
policy. (TIME, Nov.18, 1996, p.30)
for a world-renowned scientist.
(TIME, Dec.30, 1996/ Jan.6, 1997, p.24)

44 3
sluggish [sl] adj.
rugged [rd] adj. The Paris-based OECD predicted a sluggish rate
of growth in 1994 for the G-7 leading

industrialized countries. (TIME, Jan.3, 1994, p.17)

The man had previously completed (Army Ranger)
1994
training in rugged forest, desert and mountain
terrains. (TIME, Feb.27, 1995, p.11)
sophisticated [sfstketd] adj.
1. ()2.
savage [svd] adj. 3.
vicious 1. advanced 2. refined unsophisticated
And the old soldiers, rows of military medals Once the calling of wild-eye Cassandras and 19th
pinned to their civilian clothes, are reminiscing century writers and social scientists on the radical
about the war, the friends they lost and the savage, fringe, long-range forecasting has become a
tragic history of the country they saved. sophisticated and quite profitable industry.
(TIME, May 8, 1995, p.78) (TIME, July 15, 1996, p.38)

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19 Even when it seems beyond the reach of any one

government, electronic information can be
controlled, in ways both subtle and obvious.
(TIME, Aug.19, 1996, p.52)
calling n.

Cassandra

Cassandra

sweeping [swip] adj.

fringe n. far-reaching
A House subcommitteewill vote next week on
staggering [str] adj. the Smoke-Free Environment Act, perhaps the
most sweeping antismoking legislation Congress
astounding has ever seriously considered.
The Popes literary output is staggering. His letters, (TIME, Apr.18, 1994, p.58)
sermons and speeches fill nearly 150 volumes.
(TIME, Dec.26, 1996, p.60)

150
tangible [tndbl] adj.
strapped (for cash) [strpt] adj.
In fact, compared with more tangible assaults on
the Presidents characternamely Paula Jones
Because of reduced oil prices and Gulf War debt, pending sexual-harassment lawsuit and the federal
Saudi Arabia is so strapped for cash that it barely investigation into Whitewaterwords in a book
met the deadline for its latest $375 million can barely hurt him. (TIME, Feb.13, 1995, p.27)
payment on its U.S. weapons contracts.
(TIME, Mar.14, 1994, p.21)

3.75
subject (to) [sbdkt] adj.
Offers of assistance from 60 countries, the U.N.
and the World Health Organization poured in.
Some were subject to endless bureaucratic
wrangling. (TIME, Feb.6, 1995, p.15)
60
thriving [rav] adj.
Most countries offer few opportunities for female
soccer players, but Norway has a thriving
womens professional league, and the U.S. a
burgeoning co-ed youth soccer movement.
(TIME, June 3, 1996, p.17)

co-ed adj. coeducational

wrangling n.
tremendous [trmnds] adj.
substantial [sbstnl] adj.
enormous
significant insubstantial Some 65 million years ago, a comet or asteroid at
In 1994, when he was 23, he plowed his least five miles wide struck the earth and blasted
substantial savings into creating WARP, to out a tremendous crater. (TIME, Jan.9, 1995, p.59)
develop and publish video games. (TIME, Apr. 14, 6500 5
1997, p.35)
1994 23
WARP tricky [trk] adj. awkward
to plow into: Getting in and out of the fast lanes is always tricky
even today. It will be even trickier when you have
subtle [stl] adj. to change lanes and hand off control to the
blatant obvious computer at the same time.
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(TIME, Nov.4, 1996, p.53)

meister
master
unanimous [junnms] adj.
The 1993 Supreme Court decision was not spin doctor
unanimous. (TIME, Feb.6, 1995, p.66)
1993 voluntary [vlntr] adj.
obligatory
unprecedented [nprsdntd] adj. It has been 16 months since Australias Northern
Territory became the first place in the world to
In an unprecedented move, Zedillo chose a legalize voluntary euthanasia. (TIME, Oct.7, 1996,
member of the opposition party as Attorney p.39)
General.
(TIME, May 29, 1995, p.40) 16
vulnerable [vlnrbl] adj.
The long time lag between the weapons arrival
urgent [dnt] adj. pressing and the Bosnians training would leave them
All this suggests that sumo, the institution, is in extremely vulnerable to snap Serb offensives
urgent need of its of its own purification. (TIME, Oct.10, 1994, p.44)
(TIME, Sept.30, 1996, p.28)

venerable [vnrbl] adj.
You could almost say this venerable institution lag n.
with its great credibility and history has been
infiltrated slowly by the type of people it was not
intended to deal with.
(TIME, Dec.12, 1994, p.64)

infiltrate v.
vigorous [vrs] adj.
dynamic
Its a signal as well that the U.S. economy may be
starting to slacken after one of its most vigorous
years in a decade. (TIME, Feb.6, 1995, p.49)
10

slacken v.
volatile [vlntr] adj. unstable
When properly combined, three volatile elements
generate American celebrity: the media, the public
and the spinmeisters who manipulate them. (TIME,
June 26, 1995, p.30)
3
3

spinmeister n. spin meister spin

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Chapter2
address [drs] v. ignore
abandon [bndn] v. give up Scientists first raised alarms about climate change
stay with in the late 1980s, but the international community
Zhu (Ming-jiang) was forced as a teenager to has taken few concrete steps to address the
abandon his education and, like tens of thousands problem.
of other intellectual young Chinese during the 1980
1960s and 70s, was sent to the countryside to be
re-educated by peasant.
affect [fkt] v.

They insist that the issue (work-family dilemma)

be seen as affecting both men and women.
abolish [bl] v.
Man holds in his mortal hands the power to
abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms amount [mant] v.
of human life.
The morning in Seattle, addressing hundreds of

analysts and media, Gates hit a rare rhetorical high,

offering up what amounted to his new digital
gospel.
abuse [bjuz] v.&n.
The term is much abused lately: in its strictest
sense, virtual reality means creating an artificial
environment so convincing it cant be hit v. rhetorical adj.
distinguished from the real thing. high adj.

appeal [pil] v.

In a letter released after his death, Dent appealed

to those who attacked his decision: If you

acknowledge [knld] v. admit disagree with voluntary euthanasia, then dont use
Johnson acknowledged that he has in the past it, but dont deny me the right to use it if and when
taken AZT, the antiviral drug typically I want to.
administered when a persons helper T-cell count
drops to 500.
AZT
T 500
acquire [kwar] v. appreciate [priet] v.
Even very young children learn by imitation; by Patients appreciate the service, and the physicians
watching how others act when they see someone seem to enjoy providing it.
in distress, these children acquire a repertoire of
sensitive responses.
arouse [raz] v.

Any stranger who wanted to buy a large amount of

ANFO (ammonium nitrate and fuel oil) would

immediately arouse suspicion.

distress n. a repertoire of

adapt [dpt] v. adjust assemble [smbl] v. gather
John Woo believes the communists are too smart Prosecutors sought to assemble a detailed
to kill a cash like the Hong Kong movie business, chronology of the murder night with a parade of
and that local moviemakers will adapt.
witnesses

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chronology n.
assert [st] v. declare
Finally, since quantum physics asserts that matter plot n. () betrothed adj.
and energy are interchangeable, we are not
individual beings at all but merely local boast [bost] v.
expressions of an infinite, universal field of Boasts Mayor Bill Campbell: During the
energy. Olympics Atlanta will be the safest city in this
country, certainly, and on the globe, probably.


assign [san] v. champion [tmpn] v. advocate
The new top officer of the Navypromised to Psychiatrist Brian Weiss is perhaps the most
speed up plans to assign women to all surface exotic. He champions reincarnation therapy.
vessels and perhaps even allow them aboard
submarines, the Navys last all-male bastion.

characterize [krktraz] v.

describe
I cant characterize my music as religious,
although religious music is very close and dear to
bastion n.
me, says Kancheli, a devout Orthodox Christian.

associate [sot] v.
Comets have long been associated with war,
upheaval and disaster. claim [klem] v. maintain

In fact, authorities claim that one-third of

Taiwans more than 1200 known black societies

assure [r] v. guarantee were dissolved during the amnesty.
But even such battle-hardened successes do not 1200
assure victory for AmEx in its quest to reclaim the 1/3
top standing it lost in 1989 in the $562 billion collapse [klps] v.
credit-card industry.
As baby boomers save for retirement, colleges for
the kids or a rainy day (say, when the U.S. Social
5620
Security system collapses), their investment rates
will soar.
1989
ban [bn] v.&n. v. prohibit bar
Beijing bans overseas exhibits of pre-Ming
dynasty paintings and calligraphy because of the
extreme vulnerability of the ancient brocade, silk a rainy day
and paper.
collide [klad] v. crash into

Traveling at speeds of 130,000 m.p.h., mountain

size fragments of the comet Shoemarker-Lavy 9
vulnerability n.
tore huge holes in Jupiters atmosphere throughout
betray [btre] v. the week, giving astronomers a glimpse of the
They take a soap-opera plot betrothed teenager titanic forces released when celestial objects
falls for stranger, perfect mother is betrayed by her collide.
neighbors, ex-prostitute tries to live an honorable - 9
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titanic n.
command [kmnd] v. conquer [kk] v.
Along with enthusiasm, sumo commands a large Conquering the light-speed computer industry
measure of reverence. means leaping ahead one cognitive generation and
landing in the right place.
compel [kmpl] v.

They tried to push me, a Russian general, to shoot
my own people in the capital of my own state. No cognitive adj.
such force exists that would compel me to do this. constitute [knsttut] v.
Among other things, such studies help doctors
determine what constitutes a safe dose of a ddrug
before trying it out on people.
compromise [kmpl] v.

If they think I am prepared to compromise, theyre
in fantasy land. contemplate [kntmplet] v.
consider
concede [knsid] v. admit Congress is contemplating hearings on the
advertising of alcoholic beverages.
acknowledge

After three decades of spraying fire-ant territory
with the killer compounds, however, the U.S.
government was forced to concede defeat. contend [kntnd] v.
30 1.
Of all the infectious disease humans will have to
compound n. contend with as the world gets warmer, malaria
condemn [kndm] v. denounce may be the worst.

praise endorse

Washington has been urging Arafat to condemn
the terrorism. 2.
These attempts to undermine their country and its
culture, the authors contend, have made the

Chinese people, particularly the youth, sick and

conduct [kndkt] v. full of aversion.
carry out
The project, called the New Economic Equation,
conducted focus groups around the U.S. with men
and women on all rungs of the socioeconomic aversion n.
ladder.
contribute [kntrbjt] v.
donate
French officials, who regularly complain about the
American refusal to contribute ground troops,
rung n.
tried again to persuade Washington to take part.
confront [knfrnt] v. face
Its hard to love someone who we see as an enemy,
someone who kills children for profit. But God
convert [knvt] v.
says we must love our enemies. Loving them
means we must confront them with the truth of Using a strategy Arthur calls target, leverage,
their sin. link and lock, Microsoft proceeded to convert
DOS users to Windows users, Windows users to
Word users and so on down the product line.
 Chapter2 14

scrutiny Microsoft is now getting.

DOS
Windows Windows
Word
demonstrate [dmnstret] v. show
convey [knve] v. The fossil demonstrates that brooding behavior
communicate evolved long before there were birds.
Its report, released early this month, conveys
guarded optimism.
deprive [dprav] v.
Those who have escaped the region [ Haiti ] claim
convince [knvns] v. persuade the army has conducted a scorched-earth policy in
If the CIA is not interested, thats their business, I an attempt to deprive [ the ousted President ]
am convinced that we should continue the Aristides allies of their food and livelihood.
research.


cope [kop] v. manage contend scorch v. oust v.
Struggling to cope with last Decembers detect [dtkt] v.
staggering $1.7 billion bankruptcy, officials in More important, over the past four years the
Californias Orange Country announced plans to scientists have not been able to detect even a trace
sell off area assets such as libraries, courts and a of HIV in the childs system.
juvenile-detention facility. 4
12 17
deteriorate [dtrret] v. improve
2
The paranoia is so deep, says Jay Printz, sheriff
of Ravalli County, Montana, another hotbed of
counter [kant] v. militia activity. I just hope it doesnt deteriorate
The defense will call Nobel laureate Kary into armed confrontations.
Mullis to testify that the (blood) samples used
by the prosecution were too small to ensure
reliable results. But deputy district attorney Lisa
Kahn is an expert on DNA testing, and will be hotbed v.
expected to counter such objections. devastate [dvstet] v. ravage

wreck

Damming rivers for hydropower plants has

DNA devastated river systems, submerged farmland and
displaced thousands of people.
credit [krdt] v.
DIA credited psychics with creating accurate
pictures of Soviet submarine construction hidden submerge v.
from U.S. spy satellites devote [dvot] v. dedicate
In 1902, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and
other now venerated American photographers
psychic n. formed a group devoted to convincing doubters
curb [kb] v. check that photography was a worthy form of artistic
expression.
restrain
1902
When a company gets to be big enough, it either
curbs its youthful ways or it invites the kind of

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If there is no tree, how will the soil hold the

venerate v. water? The question echoes across a
subcontinent.
diagnose [danos] v.

Diagnosed with prostate career in 1991, Dent
began his journey to death several weeks ago.
1991 eliminate [lmnet] v.
In just six months, Gates has refocused the work
dismiss [] v. discount force onto Net-related projects, mercilessly
Some educators dismiss as simplistic and eliminated a dozen others that were Holy Grails a
overdone the nation that girls eagerly await such year ago, and geared up an Internet-content group
feminine software as Barbie CD-ROMS. that will spend tens of millions of the dollars this
year.

12

overdone adj.

displace [dsples] v.
Knight, however, does not believe empires last Holy Grail
forever. Business cycles will displace
front-runners, even Nike.
to gear up

embrace [mbres] v.
front-runner n. In the end, Dole and Dominici are likely to
embrace at least some tax cuts to go along with
distinguish [dstw] v. deep cuts in spending.
tell apart differentiate
Although this antibody treatment cannot
distinguish between normal and misbehaving T
cells, the gambit has proved successful.
T endorse [ndrs] v.
By paying Jordan and other athletes millions to
endorse his shoes, the chairman and chief
document [dkjmnt] v.
executive of Nike has helped turn them into
Theres no documented evidence it had any value household names and shaped sports to his liking.
to the intelligence community.

duplicate [duplkt] v.
The suspicion that there were subversives in the
atomic weapons program was encouraged by the engage [ned] v.
Soviets ability to produce their own atom bomb
four years after Oppenheimers success at Los Like so many promising HIV treatments, Hos
Alamos, then to duplicate the H-bomb a mere nine strategy could fail. It could even backfire if it is
months after the first thermonuclear explosion by mistakenly touted as a kind of morning after
the U.S. treatment that allows people to relax their guard
and engage in risky sexual behavior.

subversive n. enhance [nhns] v.

echo [ko] v. resound reverberate In the largest study, almost 40% of those who took
the placebo reported enhanced sexual function.
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Gates in April 1994 called on off-site meeting of

40% his top staff to talk about a technology that had
been around for 20 years but had suddenly
exploded.
placebo n.
1994 4

20
ensure [nr] v.

fascinate [fsnet] v.
In a controversial new book called Blindside,
journalist Eamonn Fingleton argues that these Young, who is fascinated by technology, has
firms help ensure that Japan will overtake the U.S. started a company that makes devices for the
as the worlds leading economy by the year 2000. disabled, as well as high-tech toys.
Blindside

2000 file [fal] v.
In response, the cults leaders had its lawyers file
overtake v. suit.

evade [ved] v.
Last December DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) flourish [flr] v.
officers working through private brokers bought thrive decline
parts of a Russian SA-10 air-defense missile Malaria, for example, has been flourishing in
system from Belarus, a former Soviet republic. recent years owing to unusually hot weather.
The system is being dissected to see how U.S. Air
Force planes can evade radar.
12
forge [frd] v.
10
In 1992 the board, looking to forge a new image

for the company, eased him out as chairman

despite his lobbying to stay on a few more years.
dissect v.
exceed [ksid] v.
Toy manufacturers pray for a products sales to 1992
double after the launch of TV ads and for demand to ease out lobby v.
to exceed supply temporarily
frustrate [frstret] v.

For the Republicans in the House, the past two

exhibit [zbt] v. months have been a frustrating lesson in the
demonstrate show meaning of checks and balances.
Infants as young as three months old exhibit
empathy when they get upset at the sound of
another baby crying. fuel [fjul] v. feed
3
The shocking 1995 rape of a 12-year-old

Okinawan girl by U.S. servicemen fueled

expand [kspnd] v. deep-seated resentment felt by residents toward
For his part, Yeltsin fears pressure from a NATO the continued presence of 47000 U.S. troops
that is likely to expand closer to Russias western 4.7
border. 1995 12

resentment n.

fund [fnd] v.
explode [ksplod] v. S. Fred Singer, president of the industry-funded
 Chapter2 17

Science and Environment Policy Project, argues 30

that Epstein and his colleagues fail to note the
positive health benefits of warmer nights and 100
winters.

respectable adj. roster n.

hug [h] v. embrace

Reading to a child while touching, hugging and
fuss [fs] v. flap
holding him or her can be a wonderful antidote to
Selling goods abroad has been such a vital part of the impersonal tendencies of the information
Asian miracle that the region fusses over export age
statistics the way other cultures follow sports

scores.

impersonal adj.

identify [adntfa] v.
generate [dnret] v. produce A single mother receiving state welfare who wont
help identify the father of her child will lose at
The energy of the flywheel is stored in this rapid least 25% of her benefits.
rotation, which generates electricity on demand.

25%

ignore [nr] v. disregard

halt [hlt] v.
overlook
Workers finally abandoned their search for the last No traditional toy company today can ignore
two missing bodies in the rubble of the Alfred P. computer technology.
Murrah Federal Building; soon the FBI too will

halt its search of the dangerously unstable
structure.
implement [mplmnt] v. carry out
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
referred ominously to the importance of
implementing a half-forgotten 1995 auto trade
rubble n. agreement.

herald [hrld] v. 1995
In 1985 Chens Yellow Earth, in a sensational
debut at the Hong Kong Film Festival, heralded
the emergence of a pristine, passionate impose [mpoz] v.
intelligence in cinema from the Peoples Republic. Moving through the U.S. Congress right now is a
1985 telecommunications-reform bill that would impose
fines of as much as $100000 for indecency in
cyberspace.

sensational adj. pristine adj.

10
host [host] v.
infect [nfkt] v.
CyberCash launches CyberCoins with a
respectable roster of partners: some 30 Web Doctors at UCLA announced that a five-year-old
hosting companies will offer CyberCash to their boy, infected with HIV at birth, has been
client sites, and by years end CyberCash expects symptom-free ever since.
about 100 Web sites to take them up on it.
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 Chapter2 18

inspire [nspar] v. Administration doesnt feel the changes in Cuba

have been substantial enough to justify a
None of the years mass responses could hold a
diplomatic rapprochement
candle in scope and complexity to astonishing
grief inspired by Princess Dianas car-accident
death, of course.
rapprochement n.
launch [lnt] v. 1. 2.
1. start
to hold a candle to scope n. Democrats too have launched a guerrilla operation
to snag women in this presidential election.
install [nstl] v.
The fastest international link ever installed, this
pipeline could be the first step toward laying a snag v.
permanent network that will eventually hardwire lift [lft] v.
every nation in the world into the Internet. It is an article of faith in Havana that if only
Washington would lift the 33-year-old trade
embargo, a vast infusion of American cash would
rescue Cubas economy.
institute [nsttut] v. 33
Mindful of the burnout suffered by child
prodigies, the W.T.A. has instituted new age
restrictions; players 14 and under are barred from an article of faith embargo v.
tour events, and players 15 to 17 will be gently infusion n.
introduced to topflight competition. maintain [menten] v. claim
The key to success, Akimoto and other cable
14 14 executive maintain, is to provide customers with
15 17 local telephone service practically free of charge,
a come-on that has worked well for cable
to be mindful of to suffer companies in Britain.
burnout Akimoto
topflight adj.

invade [nved] v.
come-on n.
After the virus infects the cells of the respiratory
system and begins replicating, neuraminidase cuts merge [md] v.
the newly formed copies free to invade other cells. Viacom, Paramounts preferred suitor, announced
an agreement to merge with videorental giant
Blockbuster Entertainment.
Viacom
replicate v. neuraminidase n. Blockbuster

suitor n.
issue [] v. release muster [mst] v. summon gather
On Nov.21, Free as a Bird will be issued as part But all he could muster on the House floor were
of The Beatles Anthology Volume 1. 30 votes, mostly from congressional nobodies like
11 21 himself.
30

justify [dstfa] v.
According to a White House source, the Clinton navigate [nvet] v.
 Chapter2 19

Once their link to the Net is established, viewers

will, in theory, be able to navigate Websites with oversee [ovsi] v. supervise
their trusty remotes as easily as they now surf TV
channel. My emphasis now, says Anwar Ibrahim, the
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister who
is overseeing the financing for all the

projects is on the financial services and

foreign media.
negotiate [noet] v.

Veterans can negotiate their own contracts as free
agents, while young players must accept what overwhelm [ovhwlm] v.
their team pays them as long as it meets the
minimum salary. overpower
And then came the death of Princess Di, the
response to which was at once overwhelming and

bewildering.

observe [bzv] v. honor
After obtaining the three signatures required perceive [psiv] v.
from his own doctor, a cancer specialist and a
A major problem, say nutrition experts, is that
psychiatrist and observing the nine-day
most people perceive their diets as temporary
cooling-off period, Dent was free to choose the
restrictions imposed from outside.
time of his own passing.

3

9 plague [ple] v.
Growing inventories have plague retailers too
cooling-off period since they stocked up in anticipation of a strong
Christmas season.

outrage [atred] v.
Outraged cyberpurists responded by deluging
Siegel and Canter with angry E-mail messages,
inventory n.
following them with a steady stream of abuse as
they fled from one electronic home to another. ponder [pnd] v. contemplate
reflect upon
During a break in filming Broken Arrow, Woo
casts his eye over the hundreds of technicians and
ponders the contrasts in movie-making between
abuse n. Asia and America.

overhaul [ovhl] v.
Gore has also shouldered thankless but meaty
pose [poz] v.
tasks that give him something to attend to besides
foreign funerals: reinventing government, The new legislation poses huge problems for some
overhauling telecommunications law, smoothing states, such as California
relations with Moscow.

preserve [przv] v. conserve
maintain destroy
shoulder v. ( Today, a handful of dedicated naturalists are
thankless adj. giving time, money and even the occasional home
meaty adj. smoothe v. mortgage to help preserve a different kind of horse
 Chapter2 20

--- the seahorse. IBM made a map of the world at one ten-trillionth
scale from tiny blobs of gold, while Stanford
scientists reduced the first page of A Tale of Two
Cities 25000-fold.
IBM
prevail [prvel] v. triumph

be victorious 2.5
Microsoft could still prevail, in court and in the
market, but it will not escape unscathed. reflect [rflkt] v.
Ive always believed in simplicity, Klein
reflects. ve never been one to see women in
unscathed adj. reffles and all kinds of fanciful apparel. To me its
just silly.
promote [prmot] v. 1. 2.
1. encourage 1. discourage
In Bangkok he will promote the seven-member
Association of South East Asian Nations, which ruffle n. fanciful adj.
Washington considers increasingly influential.
apparel n.
7
refrain [rfren] v.
Presenters and recipients at the next Academy
Awards would be advised to refrain from rambling
pursue [psu]
thank-you and unentertaining political
v. proclamations.
Eventually, he dropped out of school to pursue his
education in the online world --- the poor mans
university.

rambling adj.

unentertaining adj.
v. carry
out register [rdst] v.
Another problem is that government officials Heres how the system works: starting this week,
often pursue self-serving agendas. youll visit the CyberCash Web site, download an
empty electronic wallet onto your hard drive and
register it with the company.
self-serving
v. strive for
Given our history, these are extremely hard tasks,
and we are forced to pursue both goals at the same reinforce [rinfrs] v.
time. strengthen
If, on the other hand, the feelings they begin to
express are not recognized and reinforced by the
reassure [rir] v. adults around them, they not only cease to express
those feelings but they also become less able to
recognize them in themselves or others.
He could see how anxious I was and he spent
some of his last hour or two reassuring me,

reminding me that this was an act of love and that
I should see it as such.

release [rlis] v.

reduce [rdus] v. Its been another hot year for customer electronics,
increase one that saw Toshiba release and impressive
 Chapter2 21

desktop PC, Sony take a first crack at a personal resort [rzrt] v.

computer and a swarm of companies come out
There is no right to resort to violence when you
with hand-held devices
dont get your way.

restore [rstr] v.

Mexican President Ernesto Zedillos plan to

restore stability to his countrys wounded
crack n. a swarm of
economy was rejected by investors for its lack of
render [rnd] v. specific remedies, causing the peso to fall to a
give record low against the dollar by weeks end.
Teaming up with Jim Clark, then chairman of
Silcon Graphics and now at Netscape, Lincoln
devised a plan to stuff the graphics-rendering
power of a $90000 SGI Reality Engine park
into a box that will be $250 in the U.S.
resume [rzum] v.

9 recommence
A network of satellite-linked computer systems

will guide the car safely to exit, at which point the

250 driver will resume control to the final destination.
to team up with devise v.
stuff v.
replace [rples] v.
The White House is searching for a new World revive [rvav] v.
Bank president to replace Lewis Preston, who is To revive the ancient tradition, 129 members of
stepping down because of illness. the U.N. General Assembly co-sponsored a
resolution calling for a worldwide cease-fire
during the 17 days of the Altanta Olympics.
resemble [rzmbl] v. 129
Ask Bill Gates about something he wants to talk
about and he acts like the teenage boy that he 17
still resembles. He grins. His voice breaks. rush [r] v. hurry
No wonder nation-states are rushing to get their
levers of control into cyberspace while less than
1% of the worlds population is online.
grin v. 1%
resent [rznt] v.
While many of Clintons closest advisers resent sabotage [sbt] v.
Morris growing influence, he has his admirers in Meanwhile, the U.S. and Israel regard Iran as a
the White House rogue state that seeks to export terror, build
nuclear weapons and sabotage the Middle East
peace process.

reside [rzad] v. live

With Java, data and programs dont have to

be stored on you computer anymore. They can
rogue n.
reside anywhere on the Internet, called up by
whoever needs them, whenever they need them. scatter [skt] v.
Java Epstein notes that in recent years variants of
the class of viruses that includes measles have
killed seals in the North sea, lions in the Serengeti
 Chapter2 22

and horses in Australia --- three very different

animals widely scattered around the globe. 60
bit v. high adj. coalesce v.

stage [sted] v. hold

3
But then he felt compelled to stage an impromptu
shed [d] v. press conference, at which he revealed that
Today the yellow arches of McDonalds shed their Russias military possesses something called an
plastic gleam on Red Square, and gangsterism Elipton, a weapon of mass destruction more
tules instead of socialist virtue. powerful than a nuclear weapon.



shrink [rk] v. (pt shrank, pp to feel compelled to
shrunk) grow
Samsung Electronic, for example, which has seen stall [stl] v.
its stock price shrink by half since the beginning About 40000 refugees were stalled Saturday just
of the year, has cut back 16-megabitchip outside Tanzania after the country closed its
production nearly 15%. borders.
4

16GB 15% steer [str] v. guide
slash [sl] v. cut Firmly, I steer them away from cheap, ugly,
Time and again, as La Mamas grants from weakling, mail-order clones and toward absurdly
government have been slashed, her theater has powerful machines that cost a fortune and make
been on the verge of closing. the room lights dim when they power up.


grant n.
soar [sr] v. rocket
Relations with Japan could soar. Economic weakling adj. clone n.
friction has eased. The trade deficit has dropped
30% in the past year. stem [stm] v. (from)
And newborn blacks are expected to live an
30% average of seven years less than whites. That
spark [sprk] v. promote could stem from environmental factors, including
trigger access to medical care, since the gap was only six
Chiracs task now is to heal the wounds of a years as recently as 1985.
bruising campaign, restore public confidence and
spark a job-creating burst of economic growth. 7
1985 6

stimulate [stmjlet] v.
bruising adj. a burst of During her campaign, she predicted that the tax
split [splt] v. cuts would help stimulate job growth of 450000
Relations between the countries hit a high after over four years.
World War II when they coalesced to lead the 4
world communist movement. But they split in the 45
1960s over ideological difference. strain [stren] v.

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Then there is the eye-straining challenge of factor in helping sustain Chiles enviable 8%
reading screenfuls of text from 2.4 m to 3.6 m annual growth rate.
away --- the distance most people sit from their
TV sets. 29%
2.4 3.6 8%

anemic adj. to stash away
stun [stn] v. amaze shock
The main charge by Onaruto and Hashimoto was tap [tp] v.
that sumo is frequently rigged. And they stunned A motorist lost in the San Fernando Valley can tap
readers by naming manes and admitting that they into GPS and get an instant position on the
themselves had helped fix bouts. digitized map.



fix v.
testify [tstfa] v.
bout n.
I may sound clinical and unemotional when I
submit [sbmt] v. testify about these operations, but it does not
Last week House Speaker Newt Gingrich sent reflect my true feelings
Clinton a letter urging him to submit within a
month a plan outlining the cuts he could make to

balance the budget in seven years.
clinical adj.

threaten [rtn] v.
7 Under the proposed reforms, anyones
outline v. neighbor could threaten to convert his land into a
toxic-waste dump and claim compensation from
sue [su] v.
the government if he was not allowed to do it.
Seeking to change the system, female spies sue the
CIA for discrimination.

claim v.
suppress [sprs] v.
tolerate [tlret] v. put up with
restrain restrict American capitalism likes entrepreneurs to have a
I am not sure they will be successful in gleam in their eye, and even tolerates some
suppressing the flow of information. clawing and scratching as long as the playing field
is level and the fight is fair.
surrender [srnd] v.
The World Wide Web, the interconnected
computer universe that teems with affluent a gleam in ones eye claw v.
consumers whose only means of spending money scratch v.
online is to surrender their credit card to insecure
track [trk] v.
networks
Still other sensors (in smart cars) will track and

record the wear on parts and systems, alerting the

driver to potential trouble, and will even flash
warning when pressure in the tires is too low.
to teem with
sustain [ssten] v. keep going
Assisted by the assets stashed away under the
pension plan, the nations once anemic savings
rate is up to a healthy 29%. That in turn has been a
 Chapter2 24

transcend [trnsnd] v. For most of this century, scientists have

worshipped the hardware of the brain and the
But because she is an African-American woman,
software of the mind; the messy powers of the
her importance to and impact on her times
heart were left to the poets.
transcend the literary.

transfer [trnsf] v. messy adj.
The software acts like an ATM, allowing you to
transfer $20 to $100 from your bank into your
(electronic) wallet before heading off onto the
Web.

20 100

transform [trnsfrm] v.
They would more radically transform the system
by ending the income tax entirely and by shifting
to taxes on consumption.

undergo [ndo] v.
(underwent, undergone) go through
Foreigners who intend to spend more than three
months in Russia must now undergo mandatory
testing to prove they are not infected with HIV
3

mandatory adj.
undermine [ndman] v.
The prosecution opened its murder case against
O.J. Simpson by presenting witnesses and
evidence intended to undermine his public image
as a genial ex-jock with a portrait of a jealous wife
abuser.

genial adj. jock n.

undertake [ndtek] v. take
on
His army, he declared, had been ordered to
undertake measures to prevent any further
strangulation of the city.

strangulation n.
worship [wp] v. adore
venerate
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Chapter3
approach [prot] n.
access [kss] n. The approach favored by IDEC
Pharmaceuticals is to target all active T cells
Theoretically at least, whole populations will have with a custom-made antibody that can temporarily
direct access to information without waiting for it knock the immune cells out of commission.
to be filtered through a government, or a press. IDEC
T

agenda [dnd] n. custom-made adj. out of
He has a modest domestic agenda centered on commission
improving education and strengthening families, assault [slt] n. attack
and he believes most of those programs can run Such assaults are most likely to injure the large
without much direct input from him. service providers, sober institutions more
culturally attuned to their governmental attackers
than the info-guerrillas of cyberspace.

ally [la] n. confederateenemy
Just as Clintons first official overseas trip, in
1993, was to Asia, his first post-election trip
will take him back to the region for visits with sober adj. to be attuned to
three other major allies --- Australia, the
Philippines and Thailand. bailout [belat] n.
1993 In Washington the Clinton Administrations
proposed $ 40 billion bailout of the weakened
3 peso met with stiff opposition from Democrats.
400
amateur [mt] n.
professional boom [bum] n&v. slump
In February their lovers quarrel in Central Park The wealth comes from initial public offerings of
was captured on an amateurs videotape, which stock, or IPOs, which are experiencing an
tabloid TV shows replayed over and over again. unprecedented boom in the great American bull
2 market of the past two years.


tabloid adj. boost [bust] n.
anarchy [nk] n. chaos Companies such as K Mart have performed
Tirana is in total anarchy. brilliantly, slicing overhead and enjoying the
resultant earnings boost, but have failed to grow
once the cutting stopped.
anguish [w] n.

agony
Not since 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt

promised a New Deal to ease the economic and
social anguish of the Great Depression, has a U.S. sliceoverhead
presidential race been so focused on domestic
affairs. boycott [bkt] n.
1932 Harry Edwards, the American sociologist who
attempted to organize a black boycott of the 1968
Games in Mexico City in a bid to call attention to
 Chapter3 26

the plight of black athletes in America coalition [koln] n.

alliance
The Rev. Kang Shin Seok, a Presbyterian minister
1968 who witnessed the mayhem, now heads a coalition
bid n. of victimized peoples groups.
campaign [kmpen] n. Kang Shin
Seok
v.

Only once did Bill Clinton raise a significant
example of foreign policy. That came in the combat [kmbt] n.
campaigns final fortnight, when he proposed that Even now, despite Beijings displeasure,
NATO begin admitting Central and East European Washington is selling Taiwan combat aircraft and
nations to the Atlantic alliance by 1999. other equipment.


1999 commonplace [kmnples] n.

adj.

Its become commonplace to note that voters

chaos [kes] n. treated Bill Clinton in 1992 the way Wall Street
In the first few years there may be panic and chaos, treats a stock.
but the people will learn to fit into the new system 1992
very fast.

compass [kmps] n.
character [krkt] n. A new Secretary of State will hold the compass.
The worlds No.1 toymaker, whose products range Warren Christopher will vacate his State
from Fisher-Price infant and preschool toys to Department office by January.
Disney-licensed characters, gets more than 1
one-third of its nearly $4 billion in sales from the
29.2-cm-tall mannequin. vacate v.

compassion [kmpn] n.

29.2 At home, with the gap between rich and poor

widening, the seemingly ingrained American
40
notions of compassion, codified during the New
1/3 Deal, are colliding with the fears of those who feel
mannequin n. () financially strapped
clash [kl] n.
Perhaps the greatest threat in the clash between
science and politics is that researchers might allow
potential controversy to deter them from
investigating sensitive subjects. ingrained adj.
condify v. collide v.
clash

clout [klat] n. weight
His leadership abilities and attempt to bring some
clout to the traditionally rubber-stamp Congress
will be put to the test when it meets in March.
conflict.
3
conflict [knflkt] n.
Even though Chechnya could not hope to win its
secessionist war against Moscow, Dudayev
warned that continued fighting might well draw
neighboring republics into a wider regional

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first five years in the U.S.

5

consequence [knskwns] n.
At home labor costs per unit of output are going dispute [dspjut] n.
down, a consequence of rising productivity, and It has been a matter of dispute but now scholars of
falling oil prices are putting another damper on the subject agree that Bessette and Kennedy first
inflation. met in 1992, when he chatted her up one day in
Central Park as she was running.

1992
to put a damper on
conspiracy [knsprs] n. emergency [mdns] n.
Hale became the target of a flood of hate Email, crisis
much of it accusing him of being part of a President Kim Young Sam was worried. The
conspiracy to suppress the true nature of Korean economy, he gravely told a July 2
Hale-Bopp. emergency ministerial meeting, is in trouble.
7 2


suppress v. encounter [nkant] n.
credibility [kredblti] n. In fact, the most unnerving encounter Ive ever
Whatever the reasons, the fact remains that the had took place in the CompuServe adultchat area.
organization (U.N.) desperately needs a
rapid-reaction capacity if it is to maintain
credibility in emergencies. unnerve v.
epidemic [pdmk] n.

The AIDS epidemic has been in full swing for

debut [dbju] n. more than a decade now.
That day Jordan made his debut against the 10
Indiana Pacers, and though he shot only 7 of 28, in full swing
he moved well considering he had been playing equivalent [kwvlnt] n.
baseball for a year.
For the past 15 years, doctors have tried to treat
the underlying disorder with the pharmaceutical
28 7
equivalent of a sledgehammer, using anticancer
drugs and steroids to beat down the bodys
demonstration [dmnstren] n. hyperactive defense forces.
Just two weeks ago, 85000 people, nearly 8% of 15
Okinawas population, joined the largest single
demonstration in the islands history to call for the
Americans removal. establishment [stblmnt] n.
8% 8.5

He was the favorite of the girls whose screams

dominated the early Beatles concerts, but he was

disability [dsblt] n. not a guys guy. No way could he satisfy the
handicap emerging establishment of rock critics, a male
Most aid, including nearly all low-income coterie.
programs, food stamps, Medicaid and disability
assistance, will be denied during an immigrants
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genre [nr] n.
coterie n. circle Lanier embodies a whole new genre of music that
euphoria [jufr] n. elation uses computers to create and disseminate its own
So after a period of euphoria, the bond market distinctive sounds.
tumbled.

tumble v. glance [lns] n&v.
expedition [kspdn] n. At first glance, Jeanne Vertefeuille might have
So Mark Norell, a leader of the joint U.S. seemed an unlikely choice to hunt down the most
Mongolian expedition, gave him a consolation damaging mole in the history of the Central
prize: digging out an unpromising specimen Intelligence Agency.
Norell had already found.


mole n.
glimpse [lmps] n&v.
unpromising adj. Mosaic (Web-browsing program) was the first
fantasy [fnts] n. dream glimpse of a multimedia future that giants such as
What we could take away from the grievous Microsoft had been predicting but not delivering.
events is a grasp not of the Unabombers
psychology but of our own which is full fantasies.

deliver v.
grandeur [rnd] n.
grievous adj. We want to bring jazz to the people inn all its
feud [fjud] n. vendetta grandeur and glory. And we dont believe the
Still, in both communities there is a growing sense music is above people.
that the blood feud--- and its cycle of violence---
must be broken if anyone is to prosper.
grasp [rsp] n. understanding
Even after working for more than 20 years in the
flair [flr] n. talent gift Russian area, I cannot hope to approach Yuris
Phil Donahue invented the participatory approach knowledge and intuitive grasp of what is going on
to TV talk, but Winfrey brought a in his homeland.
woman-to-woman empathy and a flair for 20
self-revelation that he couldnt match.

greed [rid] n. avarice
Hollywood must examine itself. Its greed is
sickening. It must judge the social impact, not just
foe [fo] n. enemy the popularity impact, of what it does.

Both speeches struck the same rhetorical chord:
that Dole is no ditherer but decisive, muscular
leader who will stand up to foreign foes.
impulse [mpls] n.
Online shopping centers are springing up
everywhere, inviting customers to use their credit
rhetorical adj. ditherer n. cards to buy on impulse, without even leaving
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their chairs. legend [ldnd] n.

They are far too cool in Nashville to get excited

about mere music legends.
to spring up
incentive [nsntv] n.
The incentive to vote for a responsible budget
thats healthful in the long run but painful in the mandate [mndet] n.
short run depends on whether you face election
next year or in three years. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimotoalso has a
new electoral mandate as head of an

internationalist coalition no longer dominated by

ambivalent socialists.

inclination [nklnen] n.
But girls rarely seem to have either the chance or
the inclination to get plugged in. coalition n.

measure [m] n. step

to plug in
Theres no single measure thats fully adequate but
infrastructure [nfrstrktr] n. a combination of measures taken together can
make them relatively secure.
The bill for this infrastructure binge has topped
$60 billion, and some economists wonder whether
Malaysia can afford it. menace [mns] n. threat
600
Still worried about the pesticides impact on the

environment, government scientists think they

may have a better answer to the fire-ant menace.
binge n.

initiative [ntv] n. merchandise [mtndaz] n. goods
The North (Vietnam) kept the initiative, choosing Thats one reason why each restaurant is designed
when to attack and when to lie low and rebuilding with a merchandise shop to tempt customers to
its strength. buy such must-have souvenirs as jogging suits,
$20 T shirts or baby baseball togs.

insight [nsat] n.
If this discovery is confirmed. it will surely be one 20 T
of the most stunning insights into our universe that
science has ever uncovered. mess [ms] n.

Army Captain Stuart Herrubgtin remembers

that the scene inside the embassy also was a

integrity [ntrt] n. monstrous mess.
Both prosecutors eventually paid for their integrity
and grit. In May 1992 Falcone and his wife
were ambushed and morally wounded by the monstrous adj.
Mafias men of honor on a road near Palermo.

monopoly [mnpl] n.
1992 5

Although they welcomed the news that Mexico

will sell off many of the states power plants, they

grit n.ambush v. had also hoped Zedillo would privatize parts of
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the countrys lucrative oil monopoly. phase [fez] n. period

More significant is Clintons plan to take an

enhanced role in transatlantic affairs in the next
four years, a transitional moment in European
nomination [nmnen] n. history when the postwar structures are being
The most worrisome oppose for Gore is that tidied up and the next historic phase has yet to
Gephardt will oppose the Vice President for their begin.
partys presidential nomination in 2000. 4
4
2000

to tidy up
odds [dz] n. chances
Odds are better than ever that high tech will get pledge [pld] n. promise
their jobs. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin deemed the
comment a violation of the (PLO) Chairmans
pledge to forgo violence and threatened to stop the
peace process.
opponent [ponnt] n.
supporter
Among the most extreme opponents, there were
even paranoiac suggestions that once gone, the art potential [ptnl] n. adj.
might be hijacked and never returned. n. possibility
Netscapes Navigator had the potential to be the
next Windows: a method for launching programs
paranoiac adj. hijack v. and calling up information not only from the
Internet but also from corporate networks and

even from the users own PC.

ordeal [rdil] n.
Laura B did not tell anyone about the assault
because, she claims, she repressed all memory of
the ordeal.
priority [prart] n.
China is a big second-term priority for Clinton
because it cuts across security and economic

issues
repress v.

passion [pn] n. feeling
Paleontology is much like politics: passions run
privilege [prvld] n.
high, and its easy to draw very different
conclusions from the same set of facts. But Djilass criticism of the power and privilege
granted to party leaders eventually led to years of
imprisonment

peril [prl] n.

Climate change threatens more than megastorms, grant v.
floods and droughts. The real peril may be disease.
proliferation [prlfren] n.
spread
We have seen that the enemy is instability. It is
persecution [prs'kjun] n.
chaos. But it is also what we call the global threats,
They must disappear by the change in sovereignty which are terrorism, international drug trafficking,
or face persecution. environmental problems, arms-proliferation
issues.

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remains [rmenz] n.
Tucked deep within the rock are what appear to be
propaganda [prpnd] n. the chemical and fossil remains of microscopic
organisms that lived on Mars 3.6 billion years ago.
Today, a handful of business groups, each with 36
political alliances, control Russias media, and
news has once again become propaganda. tuck v.
reputation [rpjten] n.
That approach will likely prove particularly
prosponent [prponnt] n. profitable in Asia and Europe, where IBM has
advocate critic built a 50-year reputation as a system integrator.
Proponents imagine a morning someday in the
next century when a smart car will pull out of the IBM
garage, drive down local roads in the conventional 50
manner and head for the smart way. reservation [rzven] n.

The disease, which first appeared on a Navajo

reservation, has since spread to 20 U.S. states and
killed 45 people, nearly half of those infected.
prospect [prspkt] n.
But an eager start-up looks at risk differently, and 20 45
so might consumers intrigued by the prospect of
shopping in cyberspace. retail [ritel] n.

Some estimates place the overall movie tie-in

business at $ 10 billion annually in retail sales
worldwide.
start-up n.
prosperity [prsprt] n. affluence 100
The peace and prosperity of the world in the next tie-in n.
century depend in many ways on what Beijing revolt [rvolt] n. insurrection
does. rebellion
Although much of the imperial collection amassed
by Chinas rulers has been lost, it is miraculous
recession [rsn] n. slump that so many landmark words have survived a
A more outrageous example is the Ministry of thousand years of violent dynastic changes, revolts
Finance, which in the wake of five years of and theft.
recession is widely considered too powerful for
Japans own good. 1000
5

amass v. landmark n.
outrageous adj.
in the wake of rival [ravl] n. v.
reign [ren] n&v. rule Nonetheless, Malaysia is in some ways more
The (anti-apartheid) movement publicly insular than its Asian rivals.
condemned her in 1989 for inflicting a reign of
terror on Soweto with her gang of bodyguards.
1989 insular adj.
sanction [skn] n.
The bill would hold expression on the Net to the
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same standards of purity, using far harsher

criminal sanction--- including jail terms--- to scrutiny [skrutn] n.
enforce them.
If that evidence stands up to the intense scientific
scrutiny that is certain to follow, it will confirm for

the first time that life is not unique to Earth.

sanctuary [sktr] n.
haven
In the capital Kigali, the Rwandan army shelled to stand up to
the national sports stadium, where more than 5000
stretch [strt] n. spell
refugees from the countrys civil war had sought
sanctuary. But one of the effects of the unusual stretch of
weather over the past 15 years has been to alert
5000 researchers to a new and perhaps even more
immediate threat of the warming trend; the rapid
scenario [snro] n. spread of disease-bearing bugs and pests.
Nunn said, a handful of fanatics could crash a 15
radio-controlled drone aircraft into the building,
engulfing it with chemical weapons and causing
tremendous death and destruction. This scenario,

said Nunn, is not far-fetched, and the
technology is all readily available. strife [straf] n. conflict
From strife-torn Georgia comes Giya Kancheli,
who may be the most important Soviet composer
since Shostakovich.


to crash (a plane or car) into
drone n. tactic [tktk] n.
engulf v. far-fetched adj. Turning to the well-tested tactic of seeking a
scapegoat, he (Yeltsin) fired Moscow police chief
Vladimir Pankratov and city chief prosecutor
scheme [skim] n. plan
Gennadi Ponomaryov for failing to provide
There are, however, as many variations on this proper organization to deal with grave crimes.
latest get-rich-on-the-Internet scheme as there are
firms that want to cash in on it.

scapegoat n. grave adj.

to cash in on

scorn [skrn] n. contempt
torture [trt] n. torment
disrespect
Twenty minutes of relaxation and 20 minutes of
He heaps scorn on federal judges who have used
torture. You never know what was next.
the bench to enforce and expand civil rights,
accusing them of a paternalistic belief in black 20 2 0
inferiority.
transition [trnzn] n.
Making the transition to true no-hands smart
roads is an engineering challenge that will
probably take another 20 years to complete.
bench n. paternalistic adj.
20
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turmoil [tml] n.
No one in authority in Washington or Tokyo will
say publicly that current turmoil is likely to
unhinge the 35-year-old U.S.-Japan security
alliance, but week by week a sense of alarm is
growing.

35

unhinge v.
verdict [vdkt] n.
Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss was convicted of
running a call-girl ring and faces up to six years in
prison. Fleiss reacted to the verdict by throwing
her head on the defense table.

convict v.
version [vn] n.
Indonesias government, which vigorously
suppressed the newsmagazine Tempo, does not
seem at all concerned that a digital version has
appeared on the Net.

veteran [vtrn] n.
Consequently, Cubas national team is made up
largely of hardened veterans, some of whom have
played together for a decade.

10
wrath [r] n.
After U.S. soldiers prevented the mob from
venting its wrath on several men suspected of
throwing the bomb, the crowd turned on the
warehouse itself.

vent v.
yield [jild] n.
The federal government has built a maze of
greenhouses, labs and research facilities dedicated
to spawning new high-yield varieties of
bug-resistant wheat, potatoes, sunflowers and
sugar beets.

 Chapter4 34

concentrate on alternate energy sources and

Chapter4 restrict the growth of industries like
petrochemicals that consume a lot of energy.
acute (a.).1()()2(

) 1.severe 2.keen
In the past, the(Mexican)ruling classes
emphasized our acute differences with the Anglo
Saxons in order to affirm our separate identity. ambivalent(a.)
() Gates is ambivalent about his celebrity.

assorted(a.) various
affable (a.) amicable His personal arsenalincluding a Czech machine
IndeedClinton was more than conciliatory when gun and assorted pistolsshotguns and Rifles, was
he met with Gingrich on Thursday and the new stashed in the trunk of his car.
Speaker was affable in return.

arsenal(n.) stash (v.)
, audacious(a.) daring
affiliated (a.)() Last yearafter months of deliberationCollins left
his faculty post at the University of Michigan
Games sponsor Visa International and three Medical School to lead the Human Genome
affiliated banks are using Atlanta as a beachhead Projectan audacious effort to decipher the
for the introduction to the U.S. of smart cards an complete genetic script contained inhuman cells.
electronic substitute for cash. .
3


beachhead(n.) decipher(v.)()
aggressive (a.) belligerent austere (a.)()( )
Says farmer Secretary of Defense Caspar The Puppet master(1993)and last year's Good Men
WeinbergerTheir whole foreign policy has Good Womenwith their austere poignancies
turned suddenly much more aggressiveand that played all the best festivalsthough they remain a
bodes no good for the nature of any people. coterie taste.



allegedly (adv.) ( poignancy (n) Coterie ( n.)(
) ).
Hard Rock creator Peter Morton sued Earl for avant-garde(a.)
allegedly purloining Hard Rock business plans. Kosuke Tsumuraanother Miyake student
The issue was settled without a trial. launched his K-Zelle line in 1992 and two years
later debuted in Paris with avant-garde Mad Max
costume.
purloin (v.) 1992
aloft (adv.) K-Zelle
The bronze sculpture depict a man holding a pipe
aloft as an offering to the Great Spirit. benevolent (a.)
Ruthless company-downsizing drives and
continued layoffscoupled with rising pay for top
managershave made their bosses look a good
alternate (a.) deal less benevolent.
The opposition says the government should ,
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nonlinear(a.)
chronic (a.).1()2( )
layoff (n.)a goad deal persistent habitual
bewildered (a.) perplexed Psychiatrists stresshoweverthat a few injections
One thing that has observers bewildered is how of medication and some sessions with a
the White House could have put forward psychotherapist are just the beginning. Pedophilia
Fosters nomination without getting the abortion is a chronic disorder.
issue squared away in advance.

pedophilia(n)
to square away ();( compatible (a.) incompatible
) No one except Microsoft executives disputes the
bizarre (a.) weird fact that Microsoft isin facta monopoly at least
Floods.Droughts.Hurricane.Twisters.Are all the in IBM-compatible computer-operating systems.
bizarre weather extremes weve been having lately Some 8 out of 10 desktop computers run the
normal fluctuations in the planet's atmospheric Microsoft software.
systems IBM
.
10 8

extremes (n.)( )fluctuation disputev.)().
(n.)( ) compelling (a.)
blatant(a.) Winfrey42,had a troubled childhoodbut her
What the network didnt know--and didnt bother genius was to realize that those troubles and
to find out --was that Jammal was a hoaxer and similar ones experienced by ordinary people all
that large segments of its program were based on over America -- could make for compelling
blatant and ludicrous pseudoscience. television.
42

,
blue-chip (a.)() complacent (a.)
Such entreaties(to safeguard the patents of That does not mean that the people of Kwangju
manufacturers) have become essential for are growing complacent or law enforcement
Americans blue-chip companies as they charge agencies less vigilant.
into the vast markets of China and its East Asian
neighbors.
vigilant (a.)
confidential(a.) public
Although labeled privileged and
entreaty (r.)Charge (v.) confidentialcopies of the telephone survey are
mysteriously ending up in the hands of reporters
capricious (a.)1()2( and environmentalists in both Alabama and
) impulsive mercurial Missouri.
unpredictable dependable
Earthquakesare capricious beasts ruled by what
physicists refer to as nonlinear dynamicswhich
means precise forecasting of when and where they Privileged( a.);to
will occur is impossible. end up.
congenial (a.)()()
agreeable
If we really mean to leadand to bring about a
 Chapter4 36

world more or less congenial to uswe should stop He may not be eligible because of a failure to
pretending that we can do the job on the cheap and make himself available for Davis Cup play in
by remote control. recent years.
) .

, enigmatic (a.)
The last Stalinists (Kim II Sung)sudden demise
Consistent(a.) leaves his realm more enigmatic than ever.
TIME--CNN polls have shown a consistent
majority of voters---56 VS.34in last week's
survey favoring creation of a full-fledged new epic (a.)
party. After an infernal global odyssey and an epic chase
TIME CNN by U.S.intelligence agenciesthe mastermind of
the Trade Center bombing is captured in Pakistan.
56, 34
Conspicuous (a.) inconspicuous
But the White House sees any conspicuous effort
to placate Jackson as dangerous to its efforts to infernal (a.) odyssey ( n.)
win back disaffected white moderates. .
exuberant(a.) lively
We think says an exuberant Larry Gilbert
Cyber Cash s vice president and general manager,
placate(v.);disaffected (a.)() its going to be the core of electronic commerce on
the Internet.
Consummate (a.)
But he did have a consummate technical command
of his instrument whichgives his performances
an irresistible strut and swagger. exultant (a.) delighted
For the men and women who fought and won the
war in EuropeV-E. day meant the exultant
strut (n.)swagger (v.) resounding vindication of good against evil.
.
daunting(a.) Intimidating
The Rosens instead plan to blow away the field in
part because Harold and his team of engineers :resounding (a.)(
have solved a set of daunting technological issues )vindication.(n.)
just in the past year. fanatic (a.)(n.) (a.)fanatical
(n.)extremist
The two fanatic Puerto Rican nationalists who
tried to assassinate Harry Truman in 1950 attacked
To blow away ()() him when he was living acrossthe street in Blair
the field House while the White House was being
eclectic (a.) renovated.
diverse 1950
Adams eclecticpop-oriented musicis a radical
departure from the expansive minimalism that
marked his earlier stage works.
feasible (a.) practicable
Reading to children is easyaffordable and
feasible for parents no matter what their level of
eligible (a.) education or economic station in life.
 Chapter4 37

pace and won by 20lengths

feeble (a.) 1
2. ineffectual .
Soldiers will vote in the next presidential election
for a leader who will protest more vigorously the genetic (a. )
feeble overall reforms of the present In fact the diversity among individuals is so
government. enormous that the whole concept of race becomes
meaningless at the genetic level.


fervent (a.) ardent giddy (a.)( )
The Sony Playstation has acquired a fervent .
following. Clark and Andreessen find themselves riding the
decade's giddiest economic bubble counting their
stock options and cutting deals with everyone
forthcoming (a.) from telephone companies to Hollywood.
Whether more money will be forthcoming is an 90
open question.

fractious(a.)
Italys embattled Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stock option
reigned on Dec.22 after serving just seven ..
fractious months. .
7
. 12 22 gorgeous(a.) beautiful
The decline in estrogen often coincides with many
embattled (a.) life changes. Your children grow up and move
frantic (a.) away You dont look as gorgeous as you used to
At time when American businesses are frantic to and your husband leaves you for a younger
set up shop on the computer networks those woman.
networks and the telecommunications systems that
carry their traffic are turning out to be terminally
insecure.

heady (a.)

In the heady days after Netscapes ballistic initial

public offering in August last year the stock shot
terminally(adv.) from27 to71 during its first day of
full-fledged (v.) trading---Barksdale preached humility the
. company's cramped halls.
Brown dwarfs are not quite big hot enough to 8
ignites the nuclear- fusion reaction that would 27 71
make them shine as full-fledged stars.

public offering()shoot (v.)()
;preach(v.)( )cramped
furious (a.)( ) (a.)()
illiterate(a.)
There was Australian sculptor Henry R Pearce The Chinese in Singapore were the descendants of
who rested his oars during an Olympic heat in
illiteratelandlesspeasants from Guangdong and
Amsterdam in 1928 to let a family of ducks paddle
Fujian.
across his path then picked up the stroke at furious
 Chapter4 38

incessant (a.) constant
intermittent intricate(a.) simple
Off-screenthe couples marriage was marred by A touch of paranoia is not a bad thing to bring to
Amazs drinking, gambling and incessant the computer-software businesswhere shifting
philandering. alliancesrapid technological charges and intricate
co-dependencies make plotting long-term
, strategies hazardous.
off screen (adv.)()mar(v)..
philandering (n.)

incumbent(a.)
Ronald Reagan crushed Jimmy Carter in 1980 in a touch of ;hazardous (a.)
part because the incumbent Carter had been dangerous
flummoxed by tine taking of American hostages in invalid(a.)
Iran. If it is prove that the Presidentelects campaign
received drug-trafficking moneyhe should resign
because his mandate would he invalid.

flummox (v.)
indignant(a.)
It drew nearly 800 letters from readers (many invariably (adv. )
predictably indignant)the fourth largest mail Known as one of the best golfers in Taiwans
response to any story this year. officialdomLee Deng-hui can break 80 on a good
800 ( day. His drives off the tee are almost invariably
) long and true.

inherent (a.) intrinsic 80
Says Cardinal Edward Clancyhead of the Roman
Catholic Church in Australia With the lavish(a.) extravagant
introduction of the principle inherent in euthanasia The lavish dinner that, chef John Folse prepared
our society as we know it begins immediately to for a private party of Procter & Gamble executives
unravel. tasted rich enough to make a cardiologist
apoplectic.


initial (a.)
Clouds and dust from the(cornet s)initial impact apoplectic (a.)
and gases from subsequent volcanoes could have lethal(a.)
spread around the globeblocking sunlight and Too often they have found the one-drug approach
altering the climate killing off the dinosaurs. allows a few malignant cells to survive and
() blossom into an even more lethal tumor.


block (v.) malignant (a.)
integral (a.) basic.. lucrative(a.)
fundamental With concert fees reportedly in the40,000plus
When people understand that being gay or lesbian range the show seem a lucrative proposition.
is an integral characteristicthey are more 4
open-minded about equality for gay Americans.
 Chapter4 39

proposition (n.)() distinct conversational styles

ludicrous (a.). ridiculous
The surgeon denounces that allegation as
ludicrous.

allegation (n.)() baffle (v.) make-up (n-)
.
malicious (a.) placid(a.) tranquil
Earlier in the week Nichols was charged with The flooding provoked the largest evacuation ever
malicious damage to the Alfred P. Murray mobilized in the Netherlands250,000people were
Federal Building. forced to flee their homes in Limburg and
Gelderland, two placid southern provinces of
willows and windmills.
mock (a.)
Clinton, he reported with a tone of mock
confidence, was at a prayer breakfast across town
with religions leaders.

evacuation (n.) flee ( v.)

poised (a.) all set

(a.)
China its treasury bursting with foreign reserves
The Pentagon revealed that three weeks ago Army
and its stock markets surgingis poised for stable
Rangers and Navy Seals had conducted practice
growth.
runs for an invasion of HaitiStaging a mock

attack on an isolated airfield at Eglin Air Force
Base in Florida.
, to burst with
precarious(a.) uncertain unstable
stable secure
We are in a very precarious position because

investors confidence is disconnected from any

mundane (a.)
hard-hitting analysis of what is underlying the
(Film critic)Libbys columns serve as a continuing economy.
account of her amusingly mundane life and the

peripheral role that movies play in it.

hard-hitting (a.)()

peripheral(a.)
optional(a.) mandatory
compulsory
China is not Haiti or Bosnia places where
Americas involvement may be desirable but is
ultimately optional. China is not optional.
predominant (a.)
In the two small Central African nations of
Rwanda and Burundi where politics is still
dominated by the ancient rivalry between the
predominant Hutu and minority Tutsi tribes pure
tribal enmity was behind the bloodshed.

enmity(n.)
perennial (a.) constant. continual
Prestigious(a.)
As she did in her perennial best sellerTanner
Privileged and smarthe had been accepted by the
argues that the sexes baffle and bewilder each
prestigious All-India School of Medical Sciences
other, not because they have vastly different
at 17.
psychological makeupsbut because they have

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1000
privileged (a.)() ,
resurgent(a.)
presumably(adv.) The Presidents Russia policy, he charged, was
The government also unveiled an emergency plan based not on recognition of Moscows threatening,
to lower the yen by, among other things spending resurgent nationalism but on misguided
more on public works which would presumably romanticism.
stimulate the economy and thus perk up demand
for imports.

robust (a.)
Last week an Atlanta fertility clinic announced
to perk up that the woman had given birth to two robustly
prone (a.) healthy boys.
The tactic is only moderately effective and has
side effects that can be as bad as the disease itself
leaving patients drained of energy and prone to fertility (n.)
sores and other infections. sentimental (a.)
Americans have sometimes sought a kind of moral
cleansing in children's adventures. It is part of an
American theology of redemption by kids--a
quaint (a.) sentimental reassertion of the nations conception
of its own innocence.
When a trend went out of stylewe used to be

forgiving of it and think it was quaint


rampant(a.)
They said that tax evasion is rampant that the theology(n.)()reassertion (n.)
yakuzaJapans mafiahas its hooks in the sport ().reassertion( )
and most stinginglythat many of the matches are redemption (n.), , ,
fixed.
sheer (a.)
Its true that farmers there will suffer as protective
trade barriers fall. But a deeper source of their
discontent is sheer, longstanding poverty.
stingingly (adv.)();fix(v.)

( )

rash (a.)

Many of the rash killings are truly senseless. Last
week a 14-year-old Brooklyn girl was charged simmering (a.)( )
with stabbing her 13-year-old boyfriend to death A major pact was signed by the two leaders(of
simply because he wanted to break up with her. China and Russia)and the Presidents of
KazakhstanKyrgyastan and Tajikistan to quell
14 long simmering disputes along Russias southern
border.
13
,
senseless (a.)stab(v.)

requisite (a.) required
.
TIME has picked 50 with the requisite ambition,
vision and community spirit to help guide us in the simplistic (a.)
new millennium. His lack of leadership allowed the reform forces to
50 fragment and be swamped by such simplistic
nationalists as Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
 Chapter4 41

expected approval a stringent ban on gifts from

lobbyists.

fragment(v.).to be swamped by.--(
). sublime(a.) heavenly
simultaneously (adv.) By the final shotof a sublime Beauty and her
A couple of mathematical modelssuggested that transformed Beast borne magically aloft and
HIV would have a hard time simultaneously soaring through the cloudsthe audience is as
undergoing the minimum three mutations enchanted as the characters.
necessary to resist combination therapy.



snap (a.) enchanted(a.)
Snap decision makingis a survival skill if you subsequent (a.) prior
are a hunter. She spent her first eight years in what is now
Slovakiaand after her parents divorce and her
speculative (a.) mother Melanies subsequent marriage to a Swiss
American investors pour speculative money into computer executiveshe moved to Trubbach
Mexico then snatch it back when times grow hard Switzerland.
and Mexico needs it most. 8


tantalizing(a.)
snatch (v.) It is a tantalizing but daunting target.
sporadic ( a.) continuous
Once inside GroznyZarakhovich was struck by tedious (a.) boring
the large number of armed citizensmany of To do thisthe scientists will have to track the
whom were making sporadic checks of entering locations of hundreds of aftershocksa lengthy
cars. and tedious process.


tentative (a.) uncertain
sprawling(a.)
firm
Chen and Zhang have both said they can not Still its easy to understand the tentative sense of
imagine shooting films outside their sprawling hope and excitement that has spread across the
homeland. AIDS community in the months since the
Vancouver conference. Ho s speech provided the
first concrete evidence that HIV is not
stationary (a.) insurmountable.
Agriculture boasts its kudzu, the miracle vine
promoted as a soil protector in the American
Southeast and now despised as an unstoppable
weedableas Tenner reports to overwhelm almost
any stationary object. insurmountable(n.) ()
thrilling(a.) exciting
Susan McCraystruggles daily to convince her
students that learning can be thrilling for its own
sake as well as a ticket to a better life.
stringent (a.).. rigorous
The House approved and sent to the Senate for its
 Chapter4 42

U.S. thousands more jobs and as much as20

trivial(a.) insignificant billion in lost investment capital.
There is no evidence of criminality in
Whitewater--but that doesn't mean it's trivial.

200
tumultuous(a.) blistering (a.)
Later the Kennedys visited France and the op-ed (n.) ()
welcome was tumultuous. with a vengeance
The communist northern tier of a peninsula once
known as the Hermit Kingdom has lived up to that
turbulent (a.) name with a vengeance.
In a turbulent worldpeacelaw and some degree
of order will have to be established before the
human race can begin seriously to tackle the great
problems and opportunities of the next century. tiern 133163

tackle (v.).
untapped (a.) exploited
On the contrary this is an age of uncommonly
universal productivity in which the spread of
education, affluence and the means to
communicate has released untapped mental
powers in every corner of the planet.

affluence (n.)
vaunted(a.)
His most vaunted exploits were exposed as largely
fictitious.

exploit (n.) fictitious (a.)

..
versatile (a.)
He was the Beatles most versatile singer and not
just as a balladeer.

viable (a.)
Barksdate knows that long-term success lies in
turning Navigator into a viable alternative to
Windows.

vocal (a.)
In a blistering op-ed article in the Los Angeles
TimesRoss PerotNAFTA S most vocal
adversary declared the devaluation would cost the
 Chapter5 43

The message I take home, he says, is that

Chapter5 disease afflicting plants and animals can send
ripples through economies and societies no less
abhor [bhr] v. detest disastrous than those affecting humans.
This cannot be righteven if it accords with all
the experimental evidence. Why? Because it is just
too ugly. And everything in our experience tells us

that nature abhors ugly.

ripple n.

alleviate [livet] v. ease

The clubs 12000 members include AIDS patients
who say marijuana stimulates their appetite and
accelerate [kslret] v.
cancer sufferers who say it alleviates nausea
There are some who want to accelerate the pace caused by chemotherapy.
on reform and those who want it to slow down. 1.2

accommodate [kmdet] v.

Netscape perpetually updates its browser to chemotherapy n.
accommodate new Web application. annihilate [nalet] v.

The Kurds are threatening to annihilate

themselves because two rival leader each hope to
accumulate [kjumjlet] v. build up establish and control an independent Kurdistan
In sumos complicated, multitiered ranking system, overlapping the borders of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and
there are contests in which a win is crucial for one Iran.
wrestler to gain promotion but is meaningless to
his opponent, who may already have accumulated
enough victories. 4

overlap v.

appease [piz] v. placate

multitier adj.
Most states have restricted the number of these
administer [dmnst] v. school (100 in California, 25 in Massachusetts) in
give an attempt to appease teachers unions and other
That settled, he administered a stimulant called opponents.
atropine to strengthen her heartbeat.
100 25
articulate [rtkjlt] v.
adore [dr] v. The world has had a week to conjure up nightmare
For sumo to maintain its special place in the scenarios, yet no one has articulated the most
Japanese heart, it will have to deliver the naked frightening peril posed by human cloning:
display of girth, strength and purity that people rampant self-satisfaction.
adore--- not the more recent images of greed and
dishonesty.

assassinate [ssnet] v.

While Vice President, Nixon allegedly organized

deliver v. girth n. an ill-fated convert plan to assassinate Fidel
Castro.
afflict [flkt] v. affect
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convert adj. bode [bod] v. augur
assume [sum] v. presume Nor do the ironies he culls from the history of
This occasion may have been the most important medicine bode well for the disease-free future
of Kennedys adult life so far, publicly as well as imagined by some prophets of biotech.
privately, and he carried it off with an imagination
and delicacy that not everyone assumed he
possessed.
cull v.

bounce [bans] v.

As we chat, the Jeep changes lanes from smooth

asphalt to rough cobblestone, which sets us

backfire [,bk'fai] v. bouncing around in the backseat.
According to Tenner, every technological
endeavor is riddled with solutions that backfire.

asphalt n.
to be riddled with bully [bl] v. push around
banish [bn] v. expel Beijing was delighted to hear him say China
We rewrote our legal and regulatory system in the cannot be bullied by an American President.
past few decades essentially to banish human
judgment from government decisions.

bust [bst] v.

Anyone would agree that a club openly selling an

illegal drug to thousands of people deserves to get

bar [br] v. ban busted, right?
Pretoria was barred from every Olympic
competition for 32 years.
32 bypass [baps] v. sidestep
bill [bl] v. Skeptics insist the real problem with the law is
In fact, computers become outdated so fast, youre that most criminals bypass gun shops in favor of
crazy to buy anything thats billed as state of the underground dealers.
art.

capitalize (on) [kptlaz] v. take
blast [blst] v. advantage of
Astronomers are not sure how our moon was The question now is how effectively Arafat will
formed, but increasingly they have come to capitalize on these assets.
suspect it was born in violence, blasted away from
Earth by a collision with a planet-like object at
least as big as Mars. effectively adv.

circumvent [skmvnt] v. get

around

Last month American customs agents arrested a

pair of Jordanian nationals on charges of

blossom [blsm] v. using a home-based front company in Midlothian,
bloom Virginia, to circumvent the Iraqi embargo.
Not only has their theory been confirmed, but it
has blossomed into a thriving branch of research.
 Chapter5 45

(buildings) exit.
front n.
embargo n.
cite [sat] v.
Richard Ellis, a professor of politics at Oregons comprehend [kmprhnd] v.
Willamette University who is skeptical of the understand
whole EQ theory, cites two 19th century Presidents To comprehend the distrust between the two sides
who did not fit the mold. in this dispute, look to Northern Ireland for
guidance.
19

claim [klem] v. take comprise [kmpraz] v.
A routine ascent turns into a desperate ordeal as a The U.S. Pacific Command comprises 200 ships,
storm rakes Mount Everest, claiming at least eight 2000 aircraft and 300000 soldiers, sailors, airmen
lives in the ultra-cold Death Zone. and marines, of whom 100000 are forward
deployed in South Korea, Japan and at sea.
8 200 2000
30 10
desperate adj. rake v.
conceal [knsil] v. reveal
collaborate [klbret] v. In a 1986 air strike at Libya, he (Ronald Reagan)
Earlier in the year, two veterans of the sport showed no qualms about ordering F-111 bombers
collaborated on Yaocho (Match Rigging), a book to blast Gaddafis living quarters as well as his
stuffed with explosive revelations. command post, and could scarcely conceal
disappointment when the colonel escaped.

1986

F-111

to be stuffed with

commit [kmt] v.
confiscate [knfsket] v. seize
In Australia he (Clinton) will stress that politics,
security and economics guarantee the U.S. The influential criminologist cited trials in
determination to stay committed to a region that Indianapolis and Kansas City that suggested that
by the year 2000 will have a combined gross violent crime can be cut drastically through
national product of $ 13 trillion, twice that of campaigns to locate and confiscate illegal guns.
Europe.

3
2000 conjure (up) [knd] v.
13 He remains one of the handful of players--- and
complement [kmplmnt] v. just about the only American--- who can conjure
up the world of Josef Lhevinne, Rachmaninoff and
So, undaunted, she hired a new director, designer,
Horowitz.
conductor and soprano to complement her original

cast.
3


compliment [kmplmnt] v.
consult [knslt] v.
He paid me a compliment, then reached over and
put his right hand on my left butt cheek. Gorton told the New York Times that he did not
Fortunately, the elevator had reached our floor, so consult environmentalists about the bill because I
I just stepped aside and walked him to the already know what their views are.
 Chapter5 46

covet [kvt] v. desire
The man represents the Internet industrys most
contain [knten] v. control coveted market: the estimated 85% to 90% of
For the Chinese, a closer bond with Russia is a American homes that arent yet connected.
way of countering pressure from the U.S., which
they accuse of trying to contain their economic
and military growth. 85% 90%
crash [kr] v .

Every computer Ive got has crashed.

contract [kntrkt] v. crave [krev] v.
The cuts are irrational, Christopher said two People were craving the simple pleasures of the
weeks ago, when our global presence should be sea and the sun.
expanding, not contracting.

cripple [krpl] v.
It was her own immune system, attacking the joint
contradict [kntrdkt] v.
in her body and crippling her so badly that she
A survey found that those who had given up often had to use a wheelchair.
cigarettes two decades ago had a higher risk of
stroke than people who had never smoked. The

results contradict two other studies that show that
after five years of abstinence a former smokers
stroke risk is essentially the same as that of cruise [kruz] v.
someone who never lit up.
20 The Grand Cherokee wends its lazy way along the
gently curving road, cruising at 40 km/h through
5 rural Michigans autumnal landscape of
gold-and-orange-dappled trees.

abstinence n. 40

convene [knvin] v.
lazy adj. dappled adj.
He wants a specific timetable to expand NATO
eastward, and pledged to convene a 1998 summit
in Prague at which the Czech Republic, Hungary crumble [krmbl] v. fall apart
and Poland would join the alliance. But the deal may not go through, and with its
demise the three-decade-old edifice of affirmative
1998 action may begin to crumble.

30
coordinate [kordnet] v.
London said it would establish an elected 90-seat edifice n.
Northern Ireland Assembly. Members of the new crunch [krnt] v.
Assembly would join with parliamentarians from The number of bits a chip can crunch is a rough
the Irish Republic in a new cross-border body to measure of its power. The old Atari games ran on
coordinate issues that affect both 8-bit machines; Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo
90 are 16-bit systems.

Atari 8
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16
cultivate [kltvet] v. 76%
Nurmi, who had never gone beyond elementary tangerine n. flake n.
schooling, cultivated his mind in adulthood and
became a devoted fan of classical music, often tangerine flaked The Kandy-Kolored
attending concerts--- but always alone. Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby

60 tangerine flaked

defect [dfkt] v. derail [drel] v. wreck
He preferred to defect to the South (Korea) while It (La Femme Nikita) became his first global hit,
on a U.S. trip during the summer and asked Mr. A and after an attempt to revive The Fifth Element in
if he would arrange an invitation from former 1993 was derailed, he scored another international
President Jimmy Carter. smash with an unusual tale of hitman-meets-Lolita
called The Professional, also known as Leon.
A 1993

defy [dfa] v.
Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi vowed to
defy a U.N. ban on flights to and from his country
and threatened to quit the world organization score v. hitman n.
altogether.
derive [drav] v. stem
Some scientists are beginning to look seriously at
just what benefits patients may derive from
denounce [dnans] v. spirituality.
The sound bites is to politics what the aphorism is
to exposition: the art of saying much with little.
Yet the high priests of the press denounce the deter [dt] v. discourage
sound bite, staple of the 30-second political ad, as
A mini-Louvre Website exists on the Net, allowing
a degradation of political discourse.
visitors to call up a grainy version of works such
as Monets Pont Neuf. Some in the real (as
30 opposed to virtual) art world are concerned that
on-screen viewing will deter actual museumgoing.

deploy [dpl] v.
He wanted deploy--- in Europe, Asia and the U.S.
--- an antiballistic-missile defense system of the
Star Wars sort first proposed during the Reagan
Administration. grainy adj.

dictate [dktet] v.
depreciate [dpriet] v. Indeed, the very shape and nature of working lives
appreciate are being dictated by technology.
Recent studies have shown that by the time youve
driven home your new 2.3-gigabyte hard drive, 32
megs of RAM, 180-megahertz StreamLined,
tangerine-flake baby, it has depreciated 76%. diminish [dmn] v. increase
She has talked of ending her program in the next
2.3G 32 180 year or two and moving on to other projects, but
 Chapter5 48

her charismatic appeal is unlikely to diminish. dwarf [dwrf] v.

The social and economic changes that are taking

place there (China) are so sweeping as to dwarf all
charismatic adj. others I see elsewhere in this dynamic part of the
discipline [dspln] v. punish world.
Brookner claimed she was denied promotion after
she disciplined subordinates for drinking,
carousing, and, in one case, wife beating.
elaborate [lbret] v. [lbrt] adj.

Elaborates Time Zagat, publisher of the Zagat
disclose [dskloz] v. reveal restaurant guides, The food doesnt have to be
Tax authorities disclosed in July that they had all that good, as long as it doesnt poison you. You
conducted their first ever investigation of a sumo go because you are interested.
stable.
7

disdain [dsden] v. contempt scorn embed [mbd] v.
By his own account, he does not simply disdain Already familiar in Western Europe and parts of
coffee; he rages against it, preaches of its evils, Asia, smart cards resemble credit cards but
overturns coffee urns in restaurants. contain an embedded microchip that keeps track
of values stored on the silicon.
IC
preach v.
dissolve [dzlv] v.
to keep track of
When the Soviet Union dissolved and
Russian-style communism expired in the late
1980s, many thought the bear and the dragon embody [mbd] v. represent
would become even more fundamentally Just as the 1889 Paris Exposition gave rise to the
antagonistic. Eiffel Towel, this (Internet) worlds fair will leave
80 behind a structure that embodies its vision of the
future: a transoceanic railroad of high-speed
fiber-optic links.
distract [dstrkt] v. sidetrack 1889

He played in Little while growing up in Delaware,
partly to distract himself from a horrible
childhood marked by his mothers dying of
cancer. emulate [mjlet] v. imitate
Warner and Paramount, the two newest entrants in
the network derby, see Fox not as a nemesis but as
a network to emulate.
drain [dren] v.
If the conflict descends into guerrilla warfare, it
may move off the worlds front pages, but it will
continue to drain Moscows resources and weaken entrant n. derby n. nemesis n.
Yeltsin.
engineer [ndnr] v.
Gerstner and Thoman, however, have engineered a
corporate future that takes more from their
 Chapter5 49

corporate customers body language than their line n.

own. escort [skrt] v.
IBM
At some Spanish resorts tourists who flouted the

law would be sternly escorted back to their hotels

enlist [nlst] v. by the Civil Guard.
The U.S. should be hard-nosed on nuclear
proliferation and intellectual-property rights, and
may find it advantageous to enlist friends and resort n.
allies support in that endeavor instead of going it
evaluate [vljet] v. assess
alone.
We must investigate, evaluate and validate this
discovery, and it is certain to create lively

scientific controversy.

hard-nosed
validate v.

envision [nvn] v. imagine
Andreessen, Barksdale and Clark envision a future
Netscape product that will assume many of the
computers operating-system functions, browsing
local files as seamlessly as it browses todays
Web.
evoke [vok] v.
Public polls record strong support for voluntary
euthanasia--- a recent Morgan poll found that 70%
of Australians were in favor--- but Dents death
also evoked sorrow and anger.
70%

3W
euthanasia n.

assume v. borrow v. expire [kspar] v. run out

eradicate [rdket] v. His work visa expires in August.
8
eliminate
Several days later, however, Clinton reversed fake [fek] v.
himself again, saying it was more important to Johnson faked a pass, and defender Latrell
safeguard vital social programs than to eradicate Sprewell was so fooled that Magic simply
the deficit in the relatively near future. sashayed past him and laid the ball in.
180

sashay v.
reverse v. feature (in) [fit] v.
erupt [rpt] v. Scientists and patients will be celebrating the
Then a controversy erupted over an unnamed promising new HIV treatments to be featured in
womans decision to abort one of two healthy Vancouver next week, but animal-rights activists
fetuses because she felt unable to care for twins. almost certainly wont be cheering them on.



abort v. fetus n.
escalate [sklet] v. foresee [frsi] v. predict
His Zucca line does well at home, but the The company expects to have a working prototype
escalating yen has kept it out of the export market. of this power train next year and even foresees
limited sales to gotta-have car fanatics in 1998.

 Chapter5 50

1998
gotta-have got to have harbor [hrb] v.
foreshadow [frdo] v. And he still harbors a grudge against Bolduc, who
forebode attempted to bring the semi-independent medical
The fall of Danang late in the month produced services under his control.
scenes of horror that appeared to foreshadow what
might happen later in Saigon.

grudge n.
for(e)go [fro] v. do without harness [hrns] v.
But, saying he wanted to appear above reproach The CIA and Defense Department are about to
and quell any controversy, he announced he would harness some of their most sensitive technologies
forgo a $ 4.5 million advance for two books on against a new enemy: cancer.
politics.

450 haunt [hnt] v.

plague
reproach n. advance n.
Until the I.R.A. and the Protestant paramilitaries
foster [fst] v. give up their vicious beating, the legacy of the
In Rishi he suggests that by purveying short-term years of violence will continue to haunt Northern
cures but ignoring long-term prevention, the Ireland, and the faces of the children of war will
typical Western physician was fostering a continue to show fear.
diseased system and beyond that, a diseased
world.


heap (on) [hip] v.
pile on
purvey v. For survivors of the massacre, the most gnawing
fret [frt] v. injustice is the blame heaped on the victims by
In his 1994 book The Agenda, Bob Woodward military officer who accused them of being agents
recounts an Oval Office meeting at which Clinton of communist North Korea, yet refused to say how
was fretting about how he could get his legislation many died.
passed.
1994


recount v. gnawing adj.
hamper [hmp] v. hobble [hbl] v. hinder
Hong Kongs cultural and intellectual Low points out, Thailands poor education
development has been hampered, no doubt, by its system--- only about 30% of teenagers go on to
lack of political development. secondary school, half the rate in Malaysia--- will
hobble its ability to move up the value-added
chain.

harass [hrs] v.
30%
Getty claims that animal-rights activists made
harassing phone calls to his hospital bedside while
he was recovering. ignite [nat] v.
He (Clinton) is pleased to have frozen the North
Korea nuclear program, but wants North and
 Chapter5 51

South speaking to each other to stabilize the

Korean peninsula, where he still fears World War
III could ignite.
obverse n.fatal adj.

inflict [nflkt] v.

The biggest impact of the U.S. economic

illustrate [lstret] v. demonstrate restrictions is the damage they inflict on American
exemplify businesses.
The Ebola affair and the emergence of AIDS
illustrate how modern travel and global commerce
can quickly spread disease.
instill [nstl] v. implant
Both writers were emerging from a Victorian
tradition that saw childrens literature as a didactic
form whose function was to instill a respect for
immerse (oneself) [ms] v. adult values and behavior.
engross
A President need not immerse himself in the
details of foreign policy to conduct it successfully.
to emerge from didactic
adj.
imply [mpla] v. intervene [ntvin] v.
suggest The Clinton Administration is faced with
Homicide may imply abuse, but abuse does not redefining when the U.S. should intervene abroad
imply homicide. and whether it should be done alone, through the
U.N. or through permanent or ad hoc alliances.
incorporate [nkrpret] v.
include
Early on, sumo was incorporated into Shinto
purification rituals, after which it became court
entertainment. intimidate [ntmdet] v.

browbeat
I heard a top Clinton aside trying to intimidate Jay
induce [ndus] v. by yelling at him, and I heard Jay, without losing
In one classic 1950 study, pregnant women his cool, raising his voice right back and
suffering from severe morning sickness were demanding that his questions get answered.
given syrup of ipecac, which induces vomiting,
and told it was a powerful new cure for nausea.
Amazingly, the women ceased vomiting.
1950 yell v.
intrigue [ntri] v.
fascinate
Senators Daniel Inouye and Robert Byrd,
syrup n. intrigued by stories of psychic successes, pushed
indulge (in) [ndld] v. hard during many years to keep Star Gate going.

They indulge in a manic idealization of their
young; it is the obverse of child battering but
sometimes has equally fatal effects. psychic n.
 Chapter5 52

isolate [aslet] v. cut off loot [lut] v. plunder

Those who were both religious and socially Hundreds of Vietnamese had swarmed over the
involved had a 14-fold advantage over those who walls and were looting the warehouse, the office,
were isolated or lacked faith. the snack bar.

14
jeopardize [dpdaz] v. threaten manifest [mnfst] v. show
endanger As Francis Fukuyama predicted, the West,
Her doctor advocates aborting all but two of the triumphant, faces the sheer ennui of normal life,
(eight) fatuses, warning that continuing the full ennui that manifests itself in an eccentric taste in
pregnancy will jeopardize the health of both heroes.
mother and bodies.
8
8
ennui n.
abort v. fetus n. marvel [mrvl] v.
lapse [lps] v. slip Just three hours after receiving the medication, I
The risk was that without immediate surgery, was able to talk again. Bisla marvels.
Bradley would quickly lapse into a coma and die. 3

monitor [mnt] v.
coma n. The presence of 47000 U.S. troops in Japan
lobby [lb] v. reassures not only Tokyo, which is carefully
Malamud, 36, spent the past year shuttling among monitoring its great neighbors rise to power, but
30 countries, lobbying companies that initially even China, which along with other Asian
dismissed the project as unwieldy and countries is worried about Japans rearming.
unworkable. 4.7
36 30


unwieldy adj. moonlight [munlat] v.
He sometimes moonlights as a chef at Rovers, a
locate [loket] v. find French restaurant in Seattle.
According to CIA documents that TIME has
obtained, two agency officers went to Alexandria,
Virginia, in May 1981 and asked a psychic to mourn [mrn] v. grieve for
locate a group of POWs on a map of Laos. At Francois Mitterrands graveside not along ago,
the mistress mourned alongside the widow.
1981 5

multiply [mltpla] v.
psychic n. POW prison of war
Most industrial pollution comes from small

factories, which have multiplied from 15000 in

loom [lum] v. 1950 to nearly 2 million today.
While the political stakes of the devaluation (of 1950 1.5
the Peso) are enormous for Zedillo, they loom 200
large as well for Bill Clinton. nurture [nt] v. cultivate

The organizers hope that the infrastructure--- and

awareness--- nurtured by this exposition will

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launch a boom in Net use.

to grapple with:
outfit [atft] v. fit out prompt [prmpt] v. encourage
General Motors is outfitting a convoy of 10 Buick Kims warning was prompted by a slump in
LeSabres that are scheduled to make a test run exports and a rise in imports that forced the
next year on a modified stretch of I-15 outside San government to double its estimate of the countrys
Diego. 1996 current account deficit to as high as $12
10 billion.
LeSabre
15 1996
120
convoy n. stretch n. slump n.
penetrate [pntret] v. prosecute [prskjut] v.
grasp fathom Weve tried to prosecute him, but its hopeless
Little Women gently but firmly asks us to penetrate because he controls the court system and the
its 19th century disguises and discover something judges Hes also protected under parliamentary
of ourselves hiding in the dim past. immunity.

19

phase (in/out) [fez] v. immunity n.
Called Integrion, the partnership will phase in provoke [prvok] v.
such activities as bill paying, electronic lending A first reading of this book provokes a mix of
and stock and bond trading beginning next year. outrage and hilarity.
Integrion
hilarity n.
prowl [pral] n&v.
plunge [plnd] v. Reporters now regularly stroll the Internet for
After drifting through interplanetary space for stories in the same way they used to prowl the
millions of years, one of these Martian rocks corridors of City Hill. The tradecraft is a little
ventured close to Earth 13000 years ago and different, but journalists are learning fast.
plunged into the atmosphere, blazing a meteoric
path across the sky.

1.3
tradecraft n.
drift v. meteoric adj. quell [kwl] v.
proclaim [prklem] v. declare Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto resorts to force to
announce quell her own familys challenge to her power.
Whatever PETA says, he proclaims, is all lies and
nonsense.

rebound [rband] v.

Among the good omens: U.S. and Japanese

prod [prd] v. stimulate economies are strengthening, and the Japanese yen
A museum planned for the site of the notorious is expected to rebound.
labor camp Perm 36 will prod visitor into
grappling with those horrific tales.
 Chapter5 54

omen n. church needs to repent for its sometimes intolerant

treatment of other faiths. That notion shocked
reclaim [rklem] v.
some bishops.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Chen Jian even
suggested a timetable of sorts, saying that after

China reclaims Hong Kong in 1997 and Macao in
1999, then Taiwan will be high on the agenda of
the Chinese people. restrain [rstren] v. check
But Templeton reminds us that not all Mexican
1997 1999 companies will be hurt if the government fails in
its attempt to restrain prices.
reconcile [rknsal] v.

Washington has blocked Chinas membership in
the World Trade Organization, which Beijing
wants as a venue for reconciling trade disputes retrieve [rtriv] v. recover get back
and obtaining more favorable tariff treatment. He lost his heart ot her almost at once. Never did
he retrieve it.

savor [sev] v.
tariff n.
Fully savoring Tsai Ming-liangs He Liu (The
recruit [rkrut] v. River) requires patience.
To find out, Ho and one of his team, Dr. Martin
Markowitz, recruited two dozen men in the scramble [skrmbl] v.
earliest stages of infection and placed them on
Rebecca Runkle, a Morgan Stanley analyst who
combination therapy.
has watched toymakers scramble in the digital age,

calls the new CD-ROMS a strategic coup.

24

therapy n.
relate [rlet] v. tell scrape [skrep] v.
She would love to relate what happened that night, No useful devices exist yet, but the prophets of
Thomasson told Congress, but felt she should talk nanotechnology insist that it may be only a few
first only to special counsel Robert Fiske. years before cell-size robots swirl through the
body scraping fatty deposits off the walls of blood
vessels

relinquish [rlkw] v. give up
Nearly one-third of those who relinquished triad
ties were already in custody.
1/3 nanotechnology n.
triad n. tie n. custody n.
swirl v. deposit n.
renounce [rnans] v. seduce [sdus] v. tempt
One in seven Taiwanese mobsters turned Over the past three months, Microsoft
themselves in to police and renounced their lives programmers have released a stream of new
of crime. products designed to seduce Net users away from
1/7 Netscape.
3
repent [rpnt] v.
Specifically, he (the Pope) suggested that the shatter [t] v. destroy
 Chapter5 55

The Nintendo 64 shatters the convention of

two-dimensional horizontal scrolling video games.
64 to pick up

strand [strnd] v.
shell [l] v. The role is oddly similar to Schwarzeneggers
They shelled and blockaded Visoko, where persona in Last Action Hero: someone who plays a
Canadians (peacekeepers) were posted. superman at work but in the real world is stranded
without a script.

shun [n] v. avoid
In an era in which management gurus strive to
push decision making down the chain, Email has persona n.
made it easier for middle managers to shun script n.
responsibility by bucking decisions up the ladder. strangle [strl] v.

The members of the larger patriot movement are
usually family men and women who feel strangled
strive v. buck v. by the economy, abandoned by the government

shuttle [tl] v.
For three years, the West has sought a diplomatic
solution to the conflict in Bosnia while sending in stride [strad] v.
U.N. peacekeepers to shuttle around a war zone
But Chiappes foot had been so badly burned he
and provide humanitarian aid.
could baely hobble, let alone stride around looking
3 for ancient dinosaur hones.


snap [snp] v.
During rehearsals, Love and guitarist Eric stuff [stf] v. cram
Erlandson snap at each other.
Browsers brought order to the chaos of the World

Wide Web, a corner of the Net stuffed with text,

sounds and pictures.
snap up [snp p]
They (moviegoers) snap up copies of Winston 3W
Grooms 1986 novel, on which the film (Gump)
was based stumble [stmbl] v.

In January she stumbled in her mens fall

1986 collection, showing loose garments in prison
spell [spl] v. signal stripes; Jewish groups protested that they looked
It has become commonplace, in this digital era, like concentration-camp grab.
that electric communication will spell doom for 1
authoritarian regimes.

subsidize [sbsdaz] v.
spur [sp] v. Fel-Pro also subsidizes tutoring for children
PC sales are likely to pick up too, spurring having trouble at school and helps with college
demand for Asian-made components like disk counseling.
drivers and monitors. Fel-Pro

 Chapter5 56

surf [sf] v. terms of a full peace treaty even if Syria is still

haggling.
But its not hard to imagine millions of people a

few years from now surfing the World Wide Web
through their video-game players with sonic and
Mario at their side.

haggle v.
3W tempt [tmpt] v.
surge [sd] v. increase Even with the price cutting that started last week
Sales of Japanese cars equipped with CD-ROMS and is likely to continue through the holiday
and satellite navigation systems are already season, the (32-bit) systems are still far too
surging--- from 306000 in 1994 to a projected expensive to tempt consumers used to paying
750000 this year. $100 or less for a game machine with plenty of
good software.
1994 30.6 32
75
project v. 100

surpass [sps] v.

Star Wars demonstrated that revenues from
film-related action figures, magnets and whatnot tip [tp] v.
could rival a movies ticket sales--- and in at least The new finding tips the balance steeply toward
two cases, Batman and Jurassic Park, even the bird-as-dinosaur camp.
surpass box-office revenues.

topple [tpl] v. overthrow
Then toppling him would have meant U.S.
occupation of Iraq, which was untenable for
America, its allies and the Arab world.
revenue n. whatnot n.
box-office adj.
swarm [swrm] v. untenable adj.
The beggars who swarm through other Indian torment [trmnt] v. torture
cities are almost nowhere to be seen, making Surat, The Bosnian Serbs torment them, humiliate them,
by many standards, a picture of Indias prosperous take them hostage.
future.

hostage n.

trail [trel] v. follow

tamper [tmp] v. He got three speeding tickets--- two from the same
Before Java allows any line of code to be executed, cop who was trailing him
it determines whether the command is a legal one, 3
using powerful encryption to ensure that the

program hasnt been tampered with.
trigger [tr] v.
It (surgery) also helps temper the involuntary arm
and leg movements triggered by the Parkinsons
encryption n. medication L-dopa.

tap [tp] v. L-dopa
Eager to tap international aid before the P.L.O. temper v.
gets it all, Hussein hinted that he might agree to
 Chapter5 57

tug [t] v. yank human history, suggesting that life exists not just
on two planets in one paltry solar system but
Dan Farmer is a computer programmer with a
throughout this magnificent universe.
gold ring in his eyebrow, a curly shock of orange

hair and a tendency to tug on the beard of
authority.


warrant [wrnt] v.
curly adj. a shock of hair merit
Though Targ has not yet published her results, she
uncover [nkv] v. discover describes them as sufficiently encouraging to
warrant a larger follow-up study with 100 AIDS
The specialists did not uncover any noticeable patients.
deviations from the norm.

underline [ndlan] v. underscore 100
The President used a news conference to underline
once again his opposition to the House-passed follow-up adj.
welfare bill and to vow to fight for the
confirmation of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon whip [hwp] v. defeat
General. Newly ascendant to the No. 1 world ranking after
last weeks Australian Open, Agassi is likely to be
surrounded by fellow stars (at Atlanta), but
Michael Chang, who whipped Agassi in straight

sets in the semifinals at Melbourne, is less certain

unravel [nrvl] v. to appear.

It was an extraordinarily productive year for the
genetic engineers racing to unravel the secrets of
human DNA.
DNA
ascendant adj. straight adj.
unveil [nvel] v.
reveal wreck [rk] v.
Last week IBM and a group of 15 U.S. and Tull, feeling only jealousy and hatred, attempts to
Canadian banking behemoths unveiled a venture wreck Barrys career and his posh life.
that aims to provide a full range of financial
services to the banks 60 million customers at the

touch of a telephone button or the click of a
mouse. posh adj.
IBM 15
6000

vanish [vn] v. disappear

Its a bad idea to let Cruise vanish for almost an
hour in the middle of his picture.

verify [vrfa] v. confirm

If the results are verified, it is a turning point in
 Chapter6 58

Chapter6 telling (a.)
addict (n.) (v.) antidote (n.)
Oprah, who once confronted her own []cure remedy
childhood sexual abuse on her show, last Jessica Dubroff's adventuremight have
week broke down during a program featuring worked as a cuteuplifting antidote to the
female drug users and revealed that she had shaming mess of the O. J. Simpson trial.
smoked cocaine in the mid-1970s and become TIMEApr, 21996P39
an addict. (TIME, Jan. 23, 1995, p. 63)


mess (n.)
70 arbitration (n.)
to break down A clause added to athletesentry forms
Adversary (n.) [] opponent stipulates that competitors disputes be
enemy [] ally resolved by the Court of Arbitration for
Diplomacy without force against an Sporta 12-member body set up by the
adversary without scruples is useless. International Olympic Committee in
(TIME, May 15,1995, p.48) 1994TIMEJune 31996p. 17

12
scruple (n.) 1994
advocate ['dvkit] (n.) stipulate (v.)
['dv,ket](v.) [] (n.) arrogance (n. )
proponent (v.) recommend But Fidelity, the biggest fund company of
That's because much of AIDS research would all, known for its arrogance and
be impossible without experiments that aggressiveness, is under unprecedented
animal advocates consider unethical. strain. (TIME, Sept. 30, 1996, p. 44)
(TIME, July 8, 1996, p. 39)

strain (n.)
alert (n.) (v.)
The Pentagon saw no evidence that Pyongyang assets (n. )
was preparing for an attack and did not Mutual funds have topped $3. 145 trillion
order the 37,000 U. S. soldiers stationed in assets(TIME, Sept. 30, 1996, p. 44)
in South Korea to a higher alert level. 3.145
(TIME,May 5, 1997, p. 30) autonomy (n.) []
independence
3.7 It's no longer the authoritarian family of
the past So young people can now enjoy
anecdote(n.) autonomy within their parents' home. (TIME,
Princeton astrophysicist David Spergel July 14, 1997, p. 37)
offered a telling historical anecdote in an
address to colleagues at the American
Astronomical Society's January meeting beneficiary (n. ) [] recipient
TIMEMar61995P76 The new law will turn welfare over to the
1 50 states, where beneficiaries will be
required to find work within two years, be
limited to five years of benefits during
 Chapter6 59

their lifetime and face stringent The first casualty of the new Haiti policy
restrictions aimed at limiting howeverwas not the Haitian military but
out-of-wedlock births. (TIME, Aug. 25, Lawrence PezzulloWashingtons special
1996, p.25) envoy to Haitiwho was forced to step down.
50 (TIMEMay1994)

5

to turn over celebrity (n.) []star
wedlock (n.) out-of-wedlock A master at elevating his own celebrity
bidnv []attempt Calvin Klein may be one of the most
Because of pressure from the U.S.Beijing recognizable names anywhere in the
believesit lost its bid to host the 2000 worldTIMEJune 171996p. 19
Olympicswhich went instead to Sydney
Australia. TIMEMar. 251996P14
censorship (n.)
2000 As Internet pioneer John Gilmor once said
blockbuster (n.) The Net interprets censorship as damage
and routes around itTIMEJan. 15
The Soul of Chant, in any event, has risen 1996P51
to No. 10 on the classical charts, not a
blockbuster like Chant, but enough to make
MilanRecordsChairman Emmanuel
Chamboredon rejoiceTIMEMay 22 route (v.)
1995P72 chunk (n.)
Magellan underperformed because Vinik put
10 an enormous chunk of the fund in bonds
believing that stacks were
rejoice (v.) overvaluedTIMESept301996p. 44
bloom nv []blossom
long with the wastewater came a strain of
cholera that found a home in huge algal
blooms stimulated by unusually warm ocean clamor (n.) (v.)
waters and abundant pollutionTIMEJuly [](n.)uproar
81996p. 40 As Okinawansclamor for the expulsion of
US bases growsTokyo and Washington are
listening. (TIMENov. 61995p, 14
strain (n.)
algala. 226
capacity (n.) cliche (n.)
My job is to help our clients expand their She challenges the cliche that women are
perceived range of possibilities, Saffo more indirect than men and that
saysOf coursein that capacityhe tentativeness reflects a lack of
acknowledgesyou can affect outcomes. confidenceTIMEOct31994p. 60
TIMEJuly 151996p. 40

tentativeness (n.)
perceive (v.) consolation(n.)
casualty (n.) []victim
 Chapter6 60

It seemed odd when the Dick Morris story curfew (n.)

broke open that the PresidentFirst Lady Officials ordered a curfewto no avail.
and Vice President placed calls of TIMENov. 281994p. 46
consolation to Dick MorrisTIMESept23 to no avail
1996p. 60
delinquency (n.)
He made the6,000 payment covering seven
years of delinquency after being offered
context (n.) the Cabinet post. (TIMEJan.31994P17)
We are concerned about what kind of China 76000
will emergesays Singapore's LeeThe
problem is of such gigantic size that it is demise (n.)
not solvable in the Asian context alone The Houston Post was sold to the Hearst
Mar. 51996p16 Corpwhich immediately shut down the
110-year-old papera rival to Hearst's
Houston ChronicleThe Posts original
owners blamed its demise on the rising cost
conviction (n.) of newsprintTIMEMay 11995p21
Itthe discoverywouldstrongly support
the growing conviction that lifepossibly 110
even intelligent lifeis commonplace
throughout the cosmosTIMEAug. 19
1996P40
dilemma (n.)
A panel finds that corporate and public
policies in the U.S. do not ease the
counterpart(n.)[]equivalent work-family dilemma. TIMEMay61996
SheAlbrightthe U.S. ambassador to the p.52
U.N.was at times less successful winning
over her counterparts at the UNwhich
like Napoleon's armytravels on its stomach.
TIMEDec161996p. 37 disguise n. v.
Clinton feels so physically isolated at the
White House that he slipped out of the
compoundfive or six times last
yearHillary Clinton does the samebut
to travel on its stomach more often and usually in disguise.TIME
Feb. 71994p. 24


*
* compound (n.)
cult (n.) dismay (n.)
Following the trail trod recently by For its partMexico will have to abide by
JackieChanChowYun-fatis already an austerity plan thatto the dismay of most
a cult idol in the U.S. TIMEMay 61996 Mexicanswill give the U.S. unprecedented
p. 63 say over the country's economic
policiesTIMEMar. 61995p25
trod tread
 Chapter6 61

underdeveloped areasTIMENov41996
P50
IBM
IBM
to abide by austerity (n.)
fiasco (n.)
disruption(n.) []debacle
Similarlyclimate disruptions may be Rusk was second only to Lyndon Johnson as
giving new life to such ancient scourges as an architect of America's greatest foreign
yellow fevermeningitis and cholerawhile policy fiascothe divisiveultimately
fostering the spread of emerging diseases fruitless war in Vietnam.TIMEJan9
like hantavirus. TIMEJuly 81996p40 1995P.19



dissident (n.) divisive a.
His Open Society Fund backed the dissidents
of Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 and Poland flaw (n.) []defect
Solidarityhelping topple totalitarian The researchers found that these executives
regimes in those countriesTIMEApr21 failed most often because of an
1997P. 23 interpersonal flaw rather than a
77 technical inability. TIMEOct.91995
p. 30

doom(n.) []fate
After the comet hit a second jolt from foul (n.)
volcanoes may have helped send the Chinawith seven top women banned from
dinosaurs to their doom(TIMEJan9 Atlanta on drug chargescried foul when an
1995P59 American and an Australian who had flunked
drug tests were allowed to enter their
countries trials. TIMEMay 131996
edge (n.) p. 13
With a new 41-to-39 edge over Democrats 7
Republicans in the California state
assembly should have been able to oust
veteran Democratic speaker Willie Brown and
install one of their own. TIMEFeb6 flunk (v.)
1995p15 franchise(n.)
4139 (v.)
The 8-megabyte behemoth matched Netscapes
franchise browserNavigatorfeature for
oust (v.) featureand at a much better price
expertise (n.) freeTIMESept161996P40
And across Asia the companyIBMis 8
deploying a new generation of salespeople
who plan to offer IBM's hardware and
software and also Big Blue's expertise fraud (n.)
insetting up business networks in And according to the Los Angeles Times
Gerchasa jewelry-store ownerhas been
 Chapter6 62

suedat least 34 times in recent years for of other countriesTIMEJuly 221996

complaints including allegations of fraud P.42
and failure to pay creditors.TIMEFeb6
1995p. 56

34 20
complaint (n.) gratification (n.)
allegation (n.) []satisfaction
frenzy (n.) Notes Worrble's SprechialWe're taking
As the stars step from their limos and a principle of instant gratification and
navigate, the red carpetthe crowds erupt applying it to a game. "TIMEOct. 7
in full frenzy.TIMEJuly 221996P42 1996p. 40


navigate (v.) gross (n.)
friction(n.) []conflict Its restaurant at Disney World in Orlando
The Administration wants to fight for the Floridaclaims the world's highest gross
U.S. computer-chip industrybut it does not at45 million in 1995its first
want trade friction to topple Japan's yearTIMEJuly 221996p43
fragile reform coalition governmentTIME
Jan101994p. 9 1995
4500
claim (v.)
coalition (n.) guise (n.)
gear (n.) For the boysMattel's new offering is a
The state of Louisiana spent79,000 in computer mouse in the guise of a Hot Wheels
1968 for riot-control equipmentThis carcomplete with flashing lights and
included such useful civilian gear as revving engine.TIMENov. 111996P36
machine guns and an armored personnel Hot Wheels
carrierTIMEFeb271995p. 11
19687.9 to be complete with
rev (v.)
guru (n.)
(n.) Ide is now Sony's guruinstructing
into gear engineersin the art of merging home
electronics with information
into high gear technologyTIMEFeb241997p. 42

Campaign '96 is roaring into high
gearTIMEMar131995p. 66 gut (s) (n.)
1996 Yet Haiti's militarybelieve that the U.S.
lacks the guts for a sustained occupation.
roar (v.) It'd be just like Somaliasays a senior
glamo(u)r (n.) []glitter Haitian officerClinton will run away when
The scene would be repeated the following the first U.S. soldier is returned in a body
week in Seattlewith cyberczar Bill Gates bagTIMEMay 161994, p. 47
adding his virtual glamourand soon in the
most touristed spots in the U.S. and a score
 Chapter6 63

petition (n. )
custody (n.)
handicap (n.) hegemony (n.)
Enjoy life, heMagic Johnson Judaismthe first faith to crack Christian
saysLiveI'm not just talking about hegemony, is today deeply rooted in the
people with HIV or AIDSbut about people U.S.although it is being eroded by
with problems or handicaps or whatever secularizationlow birthrates and high
TIMEFeb121996P38 levels of inter-marriageTIMEJan30
1995P.52



haul (n.)
As portfolio managers knowthe value of erode (v.)
diversity may not be obvious in the short heyday (n.)
runbut it is the wisest policy over the Apple makes 3.3profit on every dollar of
long haul.TIMEJuly 151996P41 salesCompared with nearly 25for
MicrosoftIn some respectsthe power
Microsoft wields over the computer industry
may exceed IBMs in its heyday.TIME, June
havoc (n.) []chaos 51995p32
The real threat for peoplemay not be a 13.3
single diseasebut armies of emergent 25
microbes raising havoc among a host of IBM
creaturesTIMEJuly 81996P41 wield (v.)
hub (n.) []center
Their view is thatgiven Singapore's
an army of a host of position as a hubthey've got to have the
hedge (n.)v best information tools. TIMEFeb17
Tokyo's joint security treaty with 1997p. 46
Washington allows its defense budget to
remain lowand it abhors even thinking
about developing a nuclear hedge against hurdle (n.) []challenge
North Koreasnuclear The biggest hurdle for Chevron will be
capabilitiesTIMEFeb. 281994P45 getting the crude to market as production
increases from 30,000 bbl. to 700,000 bbla
day by 2010. TIMEJuly 41994P54
3201070
heed nv.
As she heads to court this week to contest crude (n.) bbl.
her estranged husband's petition for barrel(s)
custody of the couple's two young boys hybrid (n.)
Clark should take heed of a similar case The TV-PC hybrid idea is attractive to
decided last fall in Washington.TIME computer makersalthough most would prefer
Mar. 201995P40 to add TV reception to their PC lines than
into the TV businessTIMEAug. 121996
p.26

estranged a.
 Chapter6 64

Japan is now determined to make up for its

lag on the info highway and give the U.S.
line (n.) some competition.TIMEMar61995P.66
hypocrisy (n.) []sincerity
Hypocrisy and selfishness seem to be the
prevailing rulescomplained Beijings to make up for
official China Daily. TIMEMay 131996 Landscape (n.)
P13 Wallerstein took an ever growing readership
through a dispiriting landscape of anger
and griefof children unable to fit in with
infidelity (n.) peers, and young adults crippled in their
If you rinse away its deliciously corrupt own attempts at love. TIMEFeb. 271995
excitement, infidelity means the P53
infliction of pain upon ones spouse for the
sake of fresher pleasure. TIMESept23
1996P60

dispiriting (a.)
rinse (v.)
infliction (n.) spouse (n.) legacy (n.)
1.
instinct (n.) 2. [] Hes much more comfortable with it,
2.
intuition says a top aideand hes come to the view
Now a dramatic discovery announced in the that foreign policy will be an important
current Science suggests that the part of his legacy.TIMENov. 181996
carnivoresdinosaurshad a nesting P.30
instinct as well.TIMENov141994
p.78

Legitimacy (n.)
And royal legitimacy was conveyed by
intuition (n.)[]instinct Princess Diana in the Caribbean surf(TIME
Sequelslike blind datesinspire a certain July 11996p. 56
terror. We fear they will be loserswe
suspect they will never measure up to past
lovesand often intuition proves lieutenant (n.)
trueTIMENov141994p. 83 []second-in-command
Gates had been warning his top lieutenants
that the Net could change everything about
the way people used computersperhaps even
the fact that they needed an89 copy of
Windows to make their machines work(TIME
sequel (n.) Sept. 161996p.38
to measure up to
knack (n.)
Conner also possesses a knack for 89
compromise. TIMEMay 151995p.67 limelight (n.)
From the gossip columns to the Oscar preshow
promenadetheysupermodelsare stealing
lagnv
 Chapter6 65

the limelight from Hollywood's film himself out of the calamity of the Bay of
goddesses. (TIMEApr. 171995p. 66) PigsTIMEJuly 251994P58



promenade (n.) commitment (n.)desperate a.

literacy (n.) cf. illiteracy calamity (n.)
In additionliteracy among Malaysias 20 mania (n.)
million people is a relatively high 80 Gates confessed that the Internet mania
English is widely spokenand a greater had taken him by surpriseMillions of
percentage of Malaysians study abroad than people were communicating via computers
do residents of any other Asian using software standards and application
countryTIMEDec41995P26 programs that Microsoft had no hand in
2000 developing.TIMEJune 51995P46
80

loophole (n.)
There may be consumer-price shifts once tax hand (n.)
shelters and loopholes vanishApr. 17 manipulation (n.)
1995p. 26
Onaruto acknowledged that a series of such
manipulations allowed him to propel a
tax shelter wrestler named Kitanofuji to the title of
grand champion in 1970. TIMESept.30
lure (n.) 1996P30
Some people wonder what lure the words
Chow Yun-fat could have on a movie marquee 1970
in Dallas or Denver.TIMEMay 61996
p.63 mayhem (n.) []chaos
Natural Born Killers isnt an attempt to
profit from murder and mayhemsays Oliver
Stone(TIMEJune 121995p. 32
marquee(n.)

lyrics (n.) melodrama(n.)
At one point in the meetingTucker rose from Half his other movies show him
the audience and delivered a 17-minute chain-smokinghe keeps three cigarettes
attack on violent and misogynistic lyrics going at once in his most recent melodrama
in songs recorded by Time-Warner Peace Hotel(TIMEMay 61996p. 62)
performers(June 121995P37)
3
chain-smoke (v.)
17 memoir(n.)
misogynistic (a.) Warren Zimmermannthe last USambassador
maneuver(n.) to Yugoslaviawho published his memoirs
Origins of a Catastrophelast weekwrote
Many feel Kennedys commitment was a that the Serb leader was "responsible for
desperate political maneuver to lift
 Chapter6 66

the deaths of tens of thousands of sitting in front of a Christmas tree

Bosnians(TIMESept. 231996p. 35) TIMENov. 211994p. 92


(n.) [] organization
catastrophe (n.) Today, and tomorrow, any ambitious
moderation (n.) []restraint entertainment outfit must be an
But as Clinton has soared in the polls by all-purposeuniversaljoint conglomerate
emphasizing moderationGore's standing for two big reasons(TIMEMar. 271995
with the Presidentsays a senior p. 54)
presidential adviseris unparalleled.
(TIMEJune 171996P30)

parallel (n.)
[]equivalent
namesake (n.) If there is an explanation for Zhirinovskys
Martina Hingis charms the fans and reminds unique appealperhaps it is to be found in
them of her namesake.TIMESept161996 the parallel between the young boy who grew
p. 19 up feeling rejectedhumiliated and
despised and a nation that has just emerged
from seven decades of dictatorship feeling
newsletter (n.) abuseddeprived and defeatedTIMEJuly
[]bulletin 111994p 38
Not all the fund companies are that
competitivesays Eric Kobrenthe 70
publisher of the newsletter Fidelity
Insight. (TIME, Sept.301996p. 48


to merge from
obsession (n.) []fixation peer (n.)
Carl Lewis has always had an obsession with Johnson had to quit basketball then
image that made would-be fans a little supposedly for the sake of his own health
uneasy.TIMEJune 241996p.66 and definitely for the peace of mind of his
peers.TIMEFeb121996p39

would-be(a.)
onset (n.)
Then the physicians must ensure that less perspective (n.) []view
than three hours have elapsed since the Even more interestingfrom a business
stroke's onsetOtherwise the risk of perspectiveis the so-called intranet
bleeding into the brain is too great.TIME the collection of networks that connect
Sept161996P48 computers within corporationsthat both
3 Sun and Microsoft have targeted as a rich
area for growth. (TIMEJan. 221996
elapse (v.) p. 44)
outfit (n.)
It is picture of his two-year-old son
Matthew, dressed in a red plaid outfit and
 Chapter6 67

Thechances
are
pinnacle (n.) predator (n.)
We asked each to select his or her choice It turns out the pesticides had all along
of the five greatest Olympians and to tell been doing less damage to the invader than
us precisely the qualities that place them to its predators.TIMEMay 271996p.
at the very pinnacle.TIMEJune 241996 67
P52
5
predicament (n.) []dilemma
This sort of predicament is what the
plight (n.) Founders designed representative democracy
Gorbachev seemed fully aware of the to solve(TIMEJan. 231995p. 14)
military's plight only two months ago when
he warned the Russian parliament that no
army in the world is in such a poor state prohibition (n.)
as ours. (Jan. 161995p. 50) The tyrannicide game changed in 1976 when
President Gerald Ford issued an Executive
Order banning political assassinationsAll
Presidents since have extended the
poise (n.) prohibitionthough Ronald Reagan must have
While sheHillary Clintonprovided little had his fingers crossed when he went along.
new information on the tangled Arkansas TIMESept. 231996p. 35
land deal or her controversial commodity 1976
tradesthe real message was her attitude
and her poiseTIMEMay 21994P.65


to have one's fingers crossed
prophet (n.)
tangled (a.) The prophets of this healing offensive are
portfolio (n.) ()( photogenic and media-friendlybut here
) their common traits endThey speak in
Johnsonalong with other Fidelity different tongues to reach different
executivesinsists that the company's audiencesTIMEJune 41996, p44
homegrown style of managing portfolios
doesn't need much fixing. TIMESept. 30
1996P46

offensive (n.) photogenic (a.)
trait(n.)
precedent (n.) prototype (n.)
One problem is that if the U.S. tries to kill Somedaysay the futuristsour streets will
leaders it doesn't likechances are someone be filled with computer-controlled cars so
will try to do the same to the American "smart" they will make the prototype I'm
President. There is precedent for such riding in look like a brain-damaged Model
concern.Sept.231996P35 T(Nov. 41996p. 52)


 Chapter6 68

T 19711972
psyche (n.)
Suharto has such tight control of the sensation (n.)
Indonesian electoral process that neither The games eye-popping graphics were an
Megawati nor her brother can hope to govern instant sensationDKC not only became the
the country any time soonBut she holds a best-selling game of 1994 but also
crucial place in the Indonesian psyche. ratcheted up pressure on the teams deigning
TIMEOct.61997p. 21 games for the new machineTIMEMay 20
1996P58

DKC1994
rally (n.) v
Last monthwith a group of nine other AIDS
patientsGetty sat down in the middle of eye-poppinga.
a driveway and blocked traffic outside an ratchet (n.) (v.)
animal-rights rally in Washington.TIME
July 81996p. 39 setback (n.)
Impressionist and modern art auctions
9 continued to disappointAt Christies and
Sothebysartworks that were estimated to
rehearsal (n.) reap bewteen160 million and215 million
The performancehoweversuffered from an instead brought in101 milliona
obvious lack of rehearsalwith the pianist stunning setback for the already shaky art
and the conductorunable to agree on basic market(TIMEMay 231994p.13)
matters of tempoTIMEJuly 251994
p71
1.62.15
1.01
shaky (a.)
retaliation (n.)
Questions still linger about whether siege(n.)
retaliation could have been a factor in Though seahorses are under siegethey
Kennedy's death(TIMESept231996 are not yet on the verge of extinction,
p. 35) so any ban on their fishing now would harm
traditional livelihoods.TIMEJan. 13
linger (v.) 1997p.43
reversion (n.)
Hong Kong's reversion may have the biggest
effect on bilateral relationsNov.18 skirmish (n.)
1996p. 31 One of the fiercest skirmishes in recent
[] months has been over the market for
so-called Web browsersin which Microsoft
rhetoric (n.) Netscape and Sun all compete.TIMEJan.
Such high-level contacts could do much to 221996P .43
soften Chinese rhetoric against the U.S.
as did the historic Beijing visits of Henry 3W
Kissinger and Richard Nixon in 1971 and 1972.
(TIMEJuly 221996p. 37) smash (n.)
 Chapter6 69

In the 1989 box-office smash God of 2

GamblersheChow Yun-fatmunched on
chocolates. TIMEMay 619p. 62 staple (n.)
1989 Both Miles Davis and Quincy Jones
experimented with rap-jazz fusion in the
box-office (a.)munch '80sbut a decade later it is becoming a
(v.) staple.TIMENov. 211994P108
spell (n.)[] period 80
Unusual weather such as dry spells in wet 10
areas or torrential rains in normally dry
spots tends to favor so-called stereotype (n.)
opportunistic pestswhile making life Those who are urgently trying to reach
more difficult for the predators that females end up reinforcing sexist
usually control themTIMEJuly 81996 stereotypessuch asGirls like cooperative
P. 40 gamesnot action.(TIMENov. 111996
p. 36)



to end up
favor (v.) stewardship (n.)
spoiler (n.) In the next few weeks parliament must still
consider the fate ofthe central bank
Though radically different in ideology chairman VictorGerashenko and vote on the
the presidential candidatesPerot and economic stewardship of Prime Minister
Jackson both yearn to advance an ambitious Victor ChernomyrdinTIMEOct241994
agendaeven if that means playing the P43
spoiler.( Mar. 131995p. 91)


yearn stigma (a.)
(v.) As long as the stigma and discrimination
stagnation (n.) exist around AIDS out therewe're going to
Economists say the nation's anemic savings have to treat it differently from other
rate of 4in contrast to Germanys 12 diseasesTIMEJuly 41994p. 60
and Japan's
17is a key reason behind the stagnation
in many workerswages since 1973. (TIME stroke(n.)
May 221995p. 35) Of all the medical catastrophes that can
4 befall a personsuffering a stroke is one
1217 of the most terrifyingTIMESept16
1973 1996P48

anemic (a.)
stake (n.) catastrophe (n.) befall (v.)
The financial stakes are enormous as
wellP&G has already invested200 million strolln. v. [](v.) wonder
in developingstudying and testing olestra. A stroll through the center of the city
(TIMEJan. 81996p.31) reveals the transformation nearly
 Chapter6 70

everywhere(July 4, 1994, p. 50) transmission (n.)

After doctors determined that AZT could
suspense(n.) block the transmission of HIV to the fetus
In Savannah these dayswhen people talk in some pregnant womenresearchers
aboutthe Bookthey are referring not wondered if they could make the therapy more
to the Bible but to Midnight in the Garden effectiveJuly 81996p39
of Good and Evilthe best-selling suspense AZT
yarn by journalist John BerendtTIME
Apr31995p. 79 block (v.)
fetus (n.)
treason(n.)
He was sentenced to 15 years for high
treason. May.22, 1995. p.56
yarn (n.) 15
symptom (n.) upheaval (n.)
All this activitymany scientists Or are they a precursor of the kind of
speculatemay be a symptom that overall climactic upheavals that can be expected
tectonic pressure in the region is from the global warming caused by the
increasing.TIMEJan311994p. 45 continued buildup of CO2 and the other
so-called green-house gasesTIMEJuly8
1996P.40
speculate (v.)tectonic (a.)

threshold (n.) buildup
Those who will really pay for the fiasco are (n.)
Mexico's emerging middle classwho had come velocity (n.)
to believe they were finally on the The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
threshold of prosperity.TIMEMar. 6 states that you cannot know a subatomic
1995P34 particle's exact position and its exact
direction and velocity at the same
timeTIMENov. 281994p. 78

(n.)
Through a long chain of intermediary venture (n.) (v.)
companiesMurdochs Australia-based News
Corpwould own the remaining 24of the No fan of the United NationsDole opposes
voting stockjust under the federal U.S. participation in UNpeacekeeping
threshold.(Apr. 171995P45) ventures and in nation-building exercises
in third-tier countries like Haiti and
24 SomaliaJuly 81996P29

25
transaction(n.)
The company's CyberCoin system will allow tier (n.)
online micro-transactions, of as visionary (n.)
little as a quarterTIMEOct71996 The steadfast visionary who began his
P40 career by bringing land reform to his island
had started to win more equal ground for
0.25
 Chapter6 71

Taiwan in the world's eyes. (TIMEDec.25

1995 / Jan. 11996p. 54)

watershed (n.)
[]turning point
In a watershed decisionthe U.S. Supreme
Court sharply restricted the ability of the
Federal Government to fashion
affirmative-action programs(TIMEJune
261995p23)

fashion (v.)affirmative-action

windfall (n.)
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev
visited Washington last week and came away
with a windfall of311 millionTIME
Feb. 281994p. 13

3.11
 Chapter7 72

Scientists are studying how genetic abnormalities

Chapter7 that make hormone levels go awry may play a role
abysmal (a.) []dismal in sexual orientation
There is no ignoring Cuba's abysmal state. In the
three years since Soviet aid was virtually
elimianatedthe island's overseas buying power abnormality (n.)
has dropped from $8 billion to $2 billion. goballistic (a.)
In shortdo household pets really have a mental
and emotional lifeTheir owners think so, but
80 20 until recentlyanimal-behavior experts would
all-out (a.) have gone ballistic on hearing such a question.
Digital change has evolved from an amusing walk
toward the future to an all-out sprint.


sprint (n.) benign (a.)
antagonistic (a.) Private cars will virtually be bannedMahathir
The antagonistic ants have been harassing (the envisions an environmentally benign
U.S.) peoplemostly in the Southfor metropolis---and replaced by a public transport
decades. system combining busesmetrostrams and
ferriesTIMEDec. 41995P26

apace (adv.) []speedily swiftly
After a 32-year career pioneering the development
of California's Silicon ValleyNoyce moved in
1988 to Austin to head Sematecha government breezy (a.)
and industry research consortium working to keep Invented at a time when optimism was in the air
the U.Sapace with Japan in semiconductor and hedonistic pleasures were beginning to be
manufacturing technology. celebrated, the breezy little bikini shows no sign
32 of growing up or growing old.TIMEJuly 1
1988 Sematech 1996p. 56


consortium (n.) hedonistic (a.)
appalling (a.)
In an appalling demonstration of the mistreatment bulky (a.)
of recruits and their meager food rationsin They include the most bulky medalist-U.S.
March 1993 four sailors on Russky Island in the super-heavyweight freestyle wrestler Chris
Fat East died of malnutrition. Taylorand the most petite----among there
mothlike Chinese gymnast Li Lu
1993 3

meager (a.)
astute (a.) []shrewd
Lawrence Korban Assistant Secretary of petite (a.)
Defense in the Reagan Administrationcalls
Powellas astute a politician as I've met
cameo (a.)
HeMagic Johnsonmade cameo appearances
awry (a.) first at the 1992 N.B.A. All-Star Game and then as
a member of the USAs Dream Team in the
 Chapter7 73

Barcelona OlympicsTIMEFeb12 Cook was a Cambridge undergraduate preparing

1996P39 for a career in foreign service when he joined the
1992 comic quartet known as Beyond the Fringe
NBA wowing West End and Broadway stages in the
1960s with his deadpan surrealism.TIMEJan.
canny (a.) []shrewd 231995 p. 13
The next step after getting a job was to find a 60 4
women to marryand Kennedy has settled this
matter as wellfinding someone chiccanny and
appealing.

quartet(n.)fringe (n.
;
chagrined (a.) wow (v.)
When Bush lost the 1992 electionMilt was demure (a.) []reserved
chagrined. Demure and sexy at the same timeBrigitte
1992 Bardot at 21 stunned in a gingham bikini in the
comely (a.) movie And God Created WomanTIMEJuly
Jacqueline Joyner came into the world in 1962 in 11996P56
godforsaken poverty in the town of East 21
StLouisIllinoisand was named after the
then President's comely wife
1962 dubious (a.)
[]questionable uncertain
Wallerstein insists thatI have never told people
godforsaken (a.) to stay together at all costsand opposes
consecutive (a.) []successive tougher divorce laws for being of dubious value
Employees work 10-hour daysfour days a for the children.TIMEFeb271995
weekwith rotating day and night shiftsAt the P53
end of each three-week cycle, they get five
consecutive days off. (TIMEMay 61996p52
10 4
3 5 edgy(a) []tense
shift (n The incident prompted the military to fortify the
cutthroat (a) []ruthless position and strengthen the troop force
It's cutthroatbut not enough to concern game thereStillthe soldiers remain
guru Enowho predicts a booming future--in edgyTIMEDec. 51994p. 83
online games.

fortifyV.
eerily (adv.)
cynical (a.) Your clone might be eerily like youor perhaps
[]idealistic eerily like someone else
CynicalcoolLennon was the eye of sanity in
the Beatlemania hurricaneTIMENov20
1995p. 52sanity(n.) clone (n.)
engaging (a.)
In a series of engaging dramasRyder grew up
deadpan (a.) on film and matured in her skills.TIMEJan.
91995p.64
 Chapter7 74

www.spumco.comwith its hilarious

Japanese pizza commercial
engrossing (a.)
Our discussion of sexual fantasiesadultery and
homosexuality was so engrossing that more than
four hours had passed before we noticed the time. hip (a.) []trendy
Friends quoted in the press say Bessette is hip and
4 determineda natural socializer who knows how
feisty (a.) to get what she wants
[]spunky
Clinton has not named a replacementbut one
possibility is Madeleine Albrightthe feisty
ambassador to the U.Nwho would be the first impromptu (a.)
woman in the post.TIMENov181996p. []spontaneous
31 The following day Coetsee paid an impromptu
unannounced visit to the world's most famous
political prisoner.

fickle (a.) 12 []
1
capricious [] 2dependable invincible (a.) 1 2
Fashion is ficklefads are fundamentalcareers [] 1unbeatable
are often brief. Except in JapanThere not only Some analysts were saying Netscape had an
do quality and creativity reignbut stability rules. invincible lead in the browser business, even
(TIMEOct91995p47 against Microsoft


lackluster (a.)
formidable (a.) Sasser triumphed in their first debatebut Frist
turned his lackluster performance into another
The small central African republicBurundi
sign that he wasnt a smoothie from the big city.
didnt have a national Olympic Committee until
(TIMENov. 211994p. 54
1993but it has had formidable runners for

several yearsTIMEJan81996p13

1993

smoothie(n.)

malign (a.) []harmful

graphic (a.)
[]benign
[]explicit
Presenting four-year-old information and focusing
Theater in the US. is filled these days with
on just one of China's hundreds of orphanagesit
graphic homosexual stories
boldly concludes thatthe pattern of cruelty

abuse and malign neglectnow constitutes one

grass-roots (a.) of the country's gravest human-rights
His messagehas helped make the Christian problems
Coalition one of the most powerful grass-roots
4
organizations in American politicsTIME

May 1 51995p. 28

grave (a.)
hilarious (a.)
maverick (a. n.)
Easier to access are such less-traffickedWeb
[]outsider
sites as RenStimpy creator Spumco
 Chapter7 75

Maverick director Ann Hui should feel flush

nowher sweetminor-key family drama
Summer Snow just won four of Taiwan's Golden
Horse awardsincluding Best Picture and Best
ActressTIME Jan291996p42 oblivious (a.) conscious
Chinese citizens have greater freedom today than
4 they have had in 50 yearsTo be oblivious to that
is foolish(TIMEMar, 251996p. 15)
flush (a.) minor-key 50

mercurial (a) []volatile ostensible (a.) alleged
In contrast with the mercurial Campbell Some of the funds were not doing as well as they
Chretien projected a calming image to voters ought to have beenand many were wandering
buttressed by his plain-folks persona far from their ostensible mandates. (TIMESept.
301996p. 48

buttressv
microscopic (a.) to wander from
LSD first won fame for its powerin microscopic palatable (a.) 1 2
dosesto induce hallucinations and a psychotic 1tasty 2acceptable unpalatable
state. LSD The Clinton Administration has no intention of
withdrawingbut it will reduce
hallucination (n.);psychotic (a.) USintrusivenessand do everything it can to
make the situation more palatable.TIME
nascent (a.) []budding Nov.181996p32
The countrys nascent green lobby has found an
ally in the 25-member Supreme Courtwhich has
ordered several polluting factories to intrusiveness (n.)
closeTIMEMar. 251996P46 paltry (a.)
In 199384 of its diversified U.S. equity
:25 funds outperformed the marketin 1994 about 51
didlast year the figure dropped to a paltry 21
nimble (a.) 1 2 TIMESept301996p.48
[] 1sprightly 2alert 1993 84
"I don't think you'd he interviewing me on this 1994 51
topic if we were any less nimbleGates told 21outperform
TIMEYou'd be writing our epitaph. v.
(TIMESept161994p. 41 provisional (a.)
Iraq was in provisional compliance with that
significant U.N. requirementTIME
epitaph (n.) Oct241994p.34
in compliance with
no-holds-barred (a.)

Cramer is a hedge-fund manager who for years

has written a no-holds-barred financial column for replete (a.)
a succession of magazinesmost recently the It was clear that the concept of Hong Kong is
two-year-old Smart Money(TIMEMar6 replete with ambiguity.TIMEMar. 17
1995p.73 1997P22
 Chapter7 76

arnbiguity(n.) into question the very idea of a nationstate.

(TIMEJan. 151996p. 51
resilient (a.)

But the Japanese economy is so big and resilient
that while it might staggerit could absorb the sinister (a.)
quakes blow.TIMEFeb.61995p. 45 Our statesmen used to revile Hitler
Mussolini-large and sinister enemieswho
wanted to take over the world.TIME
stagger (v.) Oct271997p. 60
riveting (a.)
The words were powerfulbut not as riveting as
the three Polaroid photos that Edwards later took
at the West Los Angeles station houseTIME sleek (a.)
Feb131995P44
More than half a million people will reside in
3 Putrajaya and surrounding suburbsand sleek
commercial buildings will accommodate 135,000
runaway (a.) workers. (TIMEDec41995p. 26
Since the runaway success of his book Ageless 50
Body, Timeless Mind in 1993he has written one 13.5
best seller after anotherselling an astonishing 6
million copies(TIMEJune 241996p.46) stark (a.)
1993 That courthouse seriousnesshoweveris in
600 stark contrast to the playful tone that Barksdale
has set inside NetscapeTIMESept16
saturated (a.) 1996p. 44
Its new Microsoft Home divisionfor example
is an attempt to leverage its position in the market
for business desktops, which is becoming staunch (a.)
saturated and move into the so-called SOHO A staunch conservative on monetary policy
small officehome officemarket(TIME Tiemeyer nonetheless has supported European
June 51995 p. 32 integration.TIMEFeb. 241997P.41


steadfast (a.) []firm
An innocent personwill remain steadfast in
Soho denying guilt. TIME, May 221995p. 51

savvy (a.) torrential (a.)
In Moscow and StPetersburgwe call find The flow of money into mutual funds this year is
only 100 people here and there who are torrentialand has already set an annual
Internet-savvyTIMEFeb171997 recordTIMESept301996p44
p47

100
seamless (a.)
trailblazing (a.)
By creating a seamless global-economic zone, Thanks to Morrison's trailblazing successblack
borderless and unregulatablethe Internet calls women are not only writing more; their books are
 Chapter7 77

being bought and read in droves. TIMEJune

171996p. 41
voracious (a.) insatiable
If webanksare dinosaursthen we're putting
in droves competitors on notice that a new breed has
ubiquitous (a.) evolved with a voracious appetite for expanded
The city's seemingly ubiquitous statues of market shareTIMESept231996p. 42
communist-era heroeshave been disdainfully
torn downGone too are the metronomic boot
clicks of the goose-stepping guard outside Lenin's
tomb(TIMEJuly 41994P. 50 breed(n.)
wayward (a.) unruly
unmanageable
Four times out of fivethe cause of a stroke is a
wayward clot that blocks an artery and robs the
disdainfully(adv.)metronomic (a.) brain of oxygen-rich bloodTIME
Sept161996p. 48
unfathomable (a.)
[] incomprehensible
For most adultsthe very idea of considering whizzy (a.)
children as sexual objects is an unfathomable Netscape and Microsoftwhose Web-browsing
deviancyTIMESept2199p41 software dominates the marketare currently
engaged in a life-or-death struggle to be the first
to introduce the newest and whizziest Internet
unfettered (a.) [] unconstrained embellishmentsTIMEAug. 121996p.
We don't live under freeunfettered 27
capitalismIsn't that why we have antitrust
laws(TIMEJune 51995p. 52)

embellishment(n.)
unscrupulous (a.)
[] unprincipled wistful (a.)
Arguing that Gregorian chants cannot be When Michael Jordan successfully returned to the
arrangedEMI called the former monks game last yearthe original MJfelt
somewhat wistful.
shameless and unscrupulousand refuses to

pay (royalties)(TIMEJuly 251994

P73
EMI

arrange (v.)

virtuoso (a.) (n.)

Yamamoto calls himself a nomad in the fashion
worldbut he brings a visionary Eastern quality
to whatever he touchesLast year he rang
virtuoso changes on the ancient art of kimono
design.TIMEOct. 91995P47

 Chapter8 78

Decemberwhen People for the Ethical Treatment

Chapter8 of Animals assailed an AIDS treatment that
abide (v.)endure involved taking immune cells from a baboon and
then killing it for autopsy.
In factinterviews with Travers suggest little more
than that she couldn't abide journalists and had 12
little patience with people who yearned to elicit (PETA )
trivialsimplistic or self-evident answers from her.

baboon(n.);autopsy (n.)
beef up (v.)strengthen
yearn (v.) elicit (v..)()( The Vietnamese defense budget has recently
) increased nearly50largely to beef up its air
force with an eye toward protecting the reserves.
abscond (v.)()
The owner of a Kobe sporting-goods store was 50
arrested after allegedly absconding with 64
000in advance payments for Air Mazes (athletic bolster (v.)strengthen
shoes). The danger is that otherwise healthy men will take
sildenafil to bolster their sexual performance and
Air Maxes 6.4 then become psychologically addictedunable to
achieve an erection without it.

sildenafil
adapt(v.)
It should be a snap to adapt a John Crisham
thriller.
brandish (v.)()
AmEx clients could brandish their cards in
snap (n.) 3.7million upscale establishments worldwideVisa
aggravate cards open 11million doorsMaster Card
12.3million.
Sanctions are not a sensible"choicesaid
Foreign Minister Qian Qichen.They would only
aggravate the crisis. 370
1100
1230
annex(v..)() upscale (a.)
He has threatened to restore Russia's imperial breach (v.)violate
bordersannex Alaskainvade Turkeyrepartition But in 1995rising temperatureallowed Aedes a
Polandgive Germany another Chernobylturn Egypt mosquitoes to breach the coastal barrier and
invade the rest of the country.
Kazakhstan into a scorched desert.
1995

bristle(v.)\stand an end

A mountain range bristling with antennas harbors

a maze of bombproof underground arsenals and
scorch (v.) shelters served by a tunnel 4km long.
apprehend(v.)catch
After the U.S. embassy receives a tipAmerican 4
agents and local police apprehend Youself in
Room at the Su Casa west House.
harbor (v.) maze n.) arsenal (n.)

brush aide(v.)()
16 ignore I saw him(Kennedy)brush aside the doubts
assail (v.)attack and point this nation toward great adventure.
Tensions between the two groups exploded last
 Chapter8 79

chasten(v.)()() (
discipline )
These chastening experiences have caused
governments to be more reluctant to provide the incapacitate (v.)
military contingents upon which the U.N.entirely consolidate(v.)
depends.
Murayama is pressing a more substantive gambit
to get the U.S.to consolidate some bases on
Okinawa.
.
contingent (n.)
chide(v.)scold
In his last public appearanceduring the substantive (a.)
1972World Serieshe chided major league contravene(v.)break
baseball for not having a black manager. Proponents of the North American pact
1972 (NAFTA)argue that nothing in the agreement will
contravene the GATT accordif it is ever reached.

churn out(v.)\turn out
In one bedroom police found eight culminate (v.)()
(software)coping machines that could churn out There it (the Olympic torch)began an 84day24
130floppy disks an hour. 000-km odyssey that will culminate in Atlanta's
8 Olympic Stadium at the climactic moment of the
130 July 19opening ceremony.
click (v.)(n.) 84 2.4
Its (Netscapes)killer application was a program 7 1s
that made navigating the Net as simple as pointing
at what you wanted to see and clicking on it.
odyssey (n.);climactic(a.)

dabble (v.)
clobber (v.)hit
But Bonnie Lu Nettleswho dabbled in astrology
What researchers now realize is that to treat the
believed it (their relationship)was fated in stars.
joint disease they dont have to clobber the whole

immune systemjust certain portions of it.

debilitate (v.)()weaken

More than half the 122patients in one study

showed significant improvement without

coincide (v.) debilitating side effects.
Disney's Toy Story is being given an especially 122
big push to coincide with its video release
because Disney felt it had underestimated the
.
marketing possibilities then the film was released
in theaters last fall. decry (v.)condemn
Abuse experts also decry the argument that a

man's obsessive love can drive him beyond all

control.
confine(V.)restrict
The coastal mountain ranges of Costa Rica had
long confined dengue fevera mosquito born
disease accompanied by incapacitating bone pain
to the country's Pacific shore.
obsessive (a.)
deluge (v.)flood
Disney Interactive has been deluged with calls
from unhappy parents who purchased the Lion
King Animated Storybook CD.IOM and were
 Chapter8 80

unable to get it to roar. But where Clinton imposed sanctions on firms

doing business with Cubahe infuriated allies like
Canada but eluded a certain Republican trap.

despise (v.)
We dont despise the veterans of America's 90's
warthe Gulf Warwe merely pity them. entertain (v.)()harbor
90 Many progressivewesternized Albanians had
continued to entertain hopes for a rational
dissemble (v.)()( settlement of the crisis.
)
They discounted his (Clinton's)womanizing and
his dissembling about the draft because they like entitle (v.)
his energy and intelligence and the fact that he Ever since Franklin Roosevelt sat in the White
wasn't George Bush. House six decades agoone U.S .tenet has never
changedif you are poor and eligibleyou are
entitled to cash paid by the Federal Government to
improve your life.
discount (v.) disregardwomanize 60
(v.)(draft (n.)
diverge (v.)part
Their paths diverged when Ben went East to get a
masters degree in business and Harold started epitomize v.)
building satellites on the West Coast. There are hardly any major designerswho have
not been influenced by the kind of American style
Calvin epitomizes
diversify (v.).branch out
Saysa Nissan dealer who now also sells Fords
"We'll never sell Toyotasbut there is definitely a evaporate (v.)disappear
move to diversify.Consumers want variety. When Bill Clinton ran for president four years
agohe missed no opportunity to distance himself
from incumbent George Bush's foreign policy.:
Once he triumphedthoughClinton's difference
evaporated like dew in July.
don (v.)put on 4
Todays bikini offers more supportand the
body-conscious woman is able to don a bikini in 7
confidence.
extol (v.)
A brochure promoting investment opportunities in
dub (v.)name Kwangju touts its reputation as the Vanguard of
Many tore down traditional homes and uprooted Democracyand extols those citizens who
venerable trees to build concrete dream houses sacrificed so much against the past unjust regime
using nearly every square meter of the plot.The in order to recover its freedom.
new architectural model was dubbed "the monster
house.


flout (v,)defy
plot (n.) Last July 4Nye County commissioner Richard
elude (v.)escape Carver,flouting federal lawused a bulldozer to
 Chapter8 81

break open a road in a national forest and then plan calls for fully-automated cars to be plying the
filed a criminal complaint against forest-service island nation's dreadfully gridlocked roadways by
workers who tried to stop him. the year 2010.
7 4 . 2010


ply (v.)
flush (out)(v.) grill (v.)
Only a week after ordering the Mexican army to interrogate
flush out the Chiapas rebels from their mountain Detectives who grill suspects in Homicide (TV
hideoutsMexican President Ernesto Zedillo series)do it with verbal cunning,not strong-arm
abruptly changed course and called off the troops. bullying.


huddle (v.)cluster
foil (v.) At 10a .m.a U.S.Coast Guard plane appears .
It's been a long time since the U.S.was on the right Hoping not to be seenpassengers huddle on the
side of a good coup.Take this latest foiled attempt floor of the boatwhich is slim with vomit and
on the part of the Kurds and the CIA to knock seawater.
Saddam Hussein out of power in Iraq. 10


slimy(a.)
hurtle (v.)plunge
garner (v.)gather acquire He was about to send a company with6billion in
That was also the day the initial public stock sales and 19641workers-all70billion
offering for Netscape Communicationsa worth-hurtling in that direction.
company that had yet to turn a profitinstantly 60 19641
garnered2billion on the strength of one 700
idea(World Wide Web).
impede (v.)hinder hamper
3W In many areas there was nothing to impede the
20 . terrible mud slides because the wildfires of
gobble (up)(v.) 1993had destroyed all the vegetation.
After watching everyone from Microsoft to Meca 1993
Software gobble up online-banking customers
banks have became eager to prove that they're not indict (v.)charge
headed for extinction. Then last week Murayama got an agreement from
the U.S .that American servicemen wanted in
serious crimes can now be taken into Japanese
custody before they are indictedrather than
to headfor) afterward as was previously the case.
grab (v.)(
)
Barksdale slipped into a suit,grabbed a quick
breakfast and pointed his Mercedes toward
Netscapes Mountain.View headquarters. custody (n)
, infringe (v.)()violate
The Indiana Democratwho was worried that the
gridlock (v.) ban might infringe on the rights of law abiding
Japan's Intelligent Transportation System master gun ownershad already voted against the bill.
 Chapter8 82

molest (v.)abuse
Don't molest crops,women or prisoners of war.

inhibit (v.)restrain mushroom (v.),
The highly popular Prime Minister is committed Faced with a mushrooming crisisYetltsin last
to ending political corruption and trimming the week called for a new effort to sterns crime.
vast web of economic regulations that inhibit
imparts push up consumer prices and infuriate the
U.S. negotiate (v.)navigate
Trying to negotiate the curve around a sea of red
inkAmtrak announced that it would cancel more
than a fifth of its service throughout the nation and
trite (v.) trim500employees.
invoke (v.)
1/5
He invoked the names of Johns parents and said 5500
how proud they would have beenonce again a sea of ;red ink trim (v.)
many of those present were brought to tears.
nibble (v.)()
Rats and cockroaches nibbled at the torn flesh on
jolt (v.n.) his leg as he spent his nights in a bare brick cell
He added that a surge in short-terra rates could jolt unheated even when the temperature fell to -7C.
the stock and bond market
7
bare (a.))
languish (v.)() nudge (v.)
Chicken sales are down at markets and Officials are trying to nudge the economy toward
restaurantsand caged birds languish unsold in pet such higher-value goads as electronics and
shops. machinery.But so are competitors elsewhere in
Asia.

leverage (v.)()()
(n.)facilitate
We also try to energize the remaining people override (v.)()overrule
around increasing top-line growththat is getting He persuaded Ronald Reagan to get the
close to your customersexpanding the business PhilippinesFerdinand Marcos to leave office but
you're good at and looking for opportunities to use lined up votes to override Meagans veto of a bill
technology to leverage the work. imposing sanctions on South Africa.



top-.line growth to line up
balance sheet() income peg (v.)
statement()(top line) Scientists pegged the age of the carbonate
revenue()(bottom line) globules at 3.6billion yearsstrongly suggesting
top-.line growth .bottom that they formed in crevices of the rock while it
line was still part of the Martian crust.
mimic (v.)imitate 36
A rapid expansion of hot gas would mimic a
nuclear explosion.
crevice (n.)()
 Chapter8 83

perch (v.) rehabilitate (v.)

Masayoshi Esashi is perched proudly on the Abu A1rub said he committed the crime on behalf
cutting edge of technology. of the militant Islamic group Hamas to rehabilitate
Esashi himself after being accused of collaborating with
on the cutting edge of Israel.
precipitate (v.)()
bring about hasten
At the same timethe overbuilding binge that .
glutted Americas skylines with vacant buildings collaborate (v.)()
has pushed the construction industry into a reiterate (v.)repeat
depression and helped precipitate a general credit Even before Secretary of State Warren Christopher
crunch. traveled to Brussels to reiterate U .S.commitment
to the Contact Group plan the Pentagon was
urging Clinton to cut his losses and compromise
, with the Serbs.
binge (n,)crunch (n

prescribe (v.)
Oregon adopted the only measurein the U.S.to
allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of relish (v.)()enjoy
medication to terminally-ill patients. They relish citing examples of overzealous
enforcement (of federal regulation)the sheep
rancher who was fined4.000for shooting a
terminally (adv.) grizzly bear that was attacking him
pursue (v.)()
An increasing number of marital therapists believe
it is their job to save the relationship rather than 4000
simply help each party pursue his or her chosen overzealous (a.)
path.
rendezvous (v.n.)(v.)meet
Leeson had left Kuala Lumpur to rendezvous with
his wife Lisa in the Malaysian resort town of Kota
rankle (v.) Kinabaluand therehe boarded the plane in his
Not only have Washington's harangues on human own name.
rights rankledbut there have been other sources
of friction.

resort (n.)
harangue (n.v.) repeal (v.)()rescind You can outlaw
ravage(v.) techniqueyou cannot repeal biology.
UNICEF plans to use that time to step up public
()
health and education programs in 14warravaged
outlaw (v.)
countries
replenish (V.)refill
14
The challenge for every prisonerparticularly

every political prisoneris how to survive intact

to step up
how to emerge undiminishedhow to conserve and
recede (v.) even replenish one's beliefs.
During the past 100yearsthe sea level has risen
1ft.along the U.S.Atlantic Coastcausing beaches
to recede between 200ftand 300ft.on average.

100, 1

200 300
revile (v.),hate despise
 Chapter8 84

Meanwhilethe Bosnian Muslims revile them ascentsas the ubiquitous Netscape Navigator
(peacekeepers)for standing by when women and browser helped spawn the world's starling online
children are shot. stampede.


revitalize (v.)
revive revivify stampede (n.v.)
While the California company reported a healthy spearhead (v.)lead
10%gain in third-quarter profitsmost of its toy As president of the International Green Gross
lines are mature,and for them to growthey must Green Crescenta private organization intended to
be constantly revitalizedparticularly in the US. help coordinate global environmental
initiatives,Gorbachev hopes to do nothing less
10 than spearhead a drive to save the planet.


rig (v.)()
In late February he carne up with tentative stifle (v.)repress
agreements on improved medical carealong Critics charge that Gingrich is playing rightwing
with proposed reforms intended to make elections politictrying to stifle funds for cultural projects
harder to rig. that he and his allies dislike.
2

scurry (v.)
Like an array of antsHaitians by the hundreds synchronize (v.)
scurry up and down the dusty bans of Massacre Seven persons were killed and at least 36injured in
River with their gallon plastic jugs synchronized dawn attackswhen two
explosive-laden vans blew up at British army
checkpoints near Londonderryin the northwest
and Newryin the south.
shell out fork out 7
Before longMeeks had shelled out more than 36
25000in legal fees.
2.5
torpedo (v.)sabotage wreck
simulate (v.) Neither Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Medican Osaka-based software companyis Netanyahu nor the Arabs have torpedoed the
selling a popular video game in which players search for Middle East peace.
simulate the experience of AIDS from HIV
infection until death.
Medic tout (v.)
Even fashion editors who tout couture's more
fanciful currents on the pages of their magazines
venerate Sander.
solicit (v.)
When the White House close new Democratic
National Committee membersit did not bother to
solicit Jackson's opinion. couture (n.)()fanciful (a.)()
19 ;venerate (v.)
traverse (v.)cross
spawn (v.)() Anyone who wants to traverse the chamber has to
The result wars one of historys headiest corporate crawl through a tight passagelighted by a string
 Chapter8 85

of dim electric light bulbswhere dirt has been vilify (v.)malign

painstakingly cleared away. They branded her an apostate appointed by
imperial forces to vilify Islam.


crawl (v.)() apostate (n.)
trudge (v.) vindicate (v.)
As the Israelis and Palestinians trudged toward justify
accommodationhope for progress shone on Those who were responsible for the operation now
another front as well. seemed desperate to vindicate their judgment in
the face of overwhelming criticism.

.
trumpet (v.) overwhelming(a.)
In Los Angele this week Sego will be trumpeting wink (v.)
the arrival of a 32-.bit version of Sonic the Nintendo won't say anything about its Internet
Hedgehoga soaring game called Nightsand a plans right now except to wink and sayas Lincoln
Net Link telephone hookup doesthat itwill be making announcements in the
32 near future.


underscore (v.)underline
To launch his fall line-and celebrate 25years in the
business-he (Issey Miyake)put on an extravaganza
in Parisa longlavish show that underscored a
strong reason for his enduring careercomplex
technology made beautiful by artistry.
25

line (n.);extravaganza (n.)

unravel (v.)
His struggle against his homosexuality was
unraveling both his marriage and his academic
post in a religious school.
,

usher in herald
By answering such questionsLewis and other
researchers hope to usher in an exciting new era in
materials scienceone based not on petroleum
products like nylon and plastic but on proteins
synthesized by livinggrowing things.

 Chapter9 86

One country's louseof courseis another's

Chapter9 bulwark against [fill in the ismcommunism
advent (n.) [] arrival nationalismimperialismcapitalism].TIME
appearance Sept231996p. 35
But with the advent of the drip-dry shirt and the
frozen breakfast burritoit became possible for
any fellowno matter how dometical1y
challengedto get out of the house on his own. louse (n.)
TIMEMay 61996P53 bump (n.)
Says Christensen of Thailand's progress from low
tech to highIt's a long journeyThere will be
bumps along the way.TIMEAug.51996
p. 42
animosity (n.) []hostility
It is almost entirely the product of animosity
between two men leading rival parties who are carnage (n.) [] slaughter
deeply jealous of each other.TIMEMar. 27 The once shabby alleys leading to Provincial
1995p36 Government Plazasite of the worst carnage in
1980are now lined with trendy boutiques
while a sprawling shopping mall has just opened
antecedent (n.) []precursor under the plaza.TIMEDec. 111995p. 20
In 1937working in his kitchenStibitz cobbled 1980
together a primitive adding device out of drycell
batteriesmetal strips from a tobacco can
flashlight bulbs and telephone wiresMany
consider it the earliest antecedent to the digital shabby (a.) trendy (a.)
computer.TIMEFeb. 131995P.23
1937 catalyst (n.)
But the innocence and trust of the young that most
adults celebrate and nurture are powerful catalysts
for the sexual fantasies of pedophilesTIME
adding device to cobble together Sept21996p. 41

aura (n.) []air
Redfords festival created an aura that welcomed
young directors and persuaded Hollywood to do censure (n. v.) (n.) condemn (v.)
the same. TIMEJune 171996p. 45 condemnation
As he demonstrated in the award-winning This
Boy's Life1989Wolff knows exactly how to
behemoth (n.) find and then walk the line between self-censure
[]monster and self-pity,TIME,Oct311994p. 81
The deal may spur more competition for 1989
Microsoftbut it removes the threat that the
government will try to break up the behemoth.
TIMEJuly 251994P13 charisma (n.)
[]magnetism
Because of his high profile and charismaand
bulwark (n.) because of his own admission that he engaged in
 Chapter9 87

numerous unprotected sexual encounters 10

Johnson has probably done as much to educate the
public about AIDS as anybody.TIME
Feb121996p40 coup (n.)
In an impressive coupshe was on the September
cover of both Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
TIMEDec261994P157
high profile 9

chic (n.) (a.) dearth (n.) []lack
Now Chinese chic has become Hollywood's latest And though Hou is proud of his filmshe thinks
maniaAng Lee is an Oscar front runner for his the dearth of commercial films is hurting Taiwan
first studio filmSense and Sensibility. TIME cinema.TIMEJan291996p. 43
Jan. 291996p. 40

detractor (n.) []critic
front runner Barbie may not be everyone's favorite companion
studio (n.) detractors love to hate her plastic perfection
conglomerate (n.) but the fashion doll with the impossible figure has
Few American communities of any size have more long been the most popular girl at
than a single newspaperwhich is frequently MattelTIMENov. 111996p. 36
owned by a distant conglomerate. TIMEFeb.
101997p. 56


contingency (n.) []possibility dominion (n.)
eventuality The deal immediately raised questions about
The doctorwho is something of a gadget whether Gates who has near monopoly control of
freakwas equipped for any contingency. the PC software industry and is moving
TIMESept231996P43 aggressively into computer networkingis
planning to extend his dominion into graphic

images as wellTIMEOct231995

P66
freak (n.) []

contraption (n.) []gadget

For quick acceleration and hill climbingthe

turbine is linked to a flywheelan
downsizing (n.)
energy-produring and energy-storing contraption
that is at least as old as the first potter's HeMajoreased off on the giant welfare cuts and
wheelTIMESept231996p. 41 industrial downsizing.TIMEMay 121997, p.
35
to ease off
episode (n.)
corridor (n.) Although civilian rule was restored to South
It was for Asia the celestial event of the decade Korea in 1993the wound inflicted by the
total eclipsesoccur somewhere on the globe Kwangju episode has yet to healTIMEDec.
every one to two yearsbut rarely are they visible 111995P20
along such a densely populated corridor. TIME 1993
Nov.61995p21
 Chapter9 88

errand (n.) the issue that will bring elderly Americans back to
His father, a carpenterdied when Paavo was the Democratic fold next year. TIMEMay 22
12and the boyeldest of five childrenhad to 1995P36
quit school and work as an errand runner
pushing a heavy wheelbarrow through the
streetsTIMEJune 241996p. 66
12 forum (n.)
5 She helped bring such topics as child abuse
homosexuality and marital dysfunction out of the
closet and into the public forumTIMEJune
ethnic group 171996P27
According to several statistical measures of
intelligencepeople of Asian and especially
Chinese descent consistently outscore other racial to bring-out of the closet
and ethnic groups.TIMESept.111995p. dysfunction (n.)
60 fray (n.)
Members of the NASA-led team arrived in
Washington fully prepared to enter the fray.
outscore (v.) TIMEAug. 191996P.41
excursion (n.)
Crichtons other major excursion into cutting-edge
science involves the trendy field of complexity... gadget (n.) [] appliance
TIMEOct.21995P45 To see about this technology for myselfI spent
some time using one gadgetPhilips Magnavox's
WEBTV.TIMEMar. 101997P49
cutting-edge (a.)trendy
(a. Magnavox
fad (n.) []craze
Her legacy can be seen in every presidential gambit (n.) []ploy tactic
candidates who discuss their marital problems on Specter's pro-choice gambit may be less appealing
TV to the fad for crash diets. TIME, June 17, when women are reminded of his role as Anita
1996, p.27 Hill's grand inquisitor during the Clarence Thomas
hearingsTIMEMar. 131995P66

crash (a.)
feat (n.) []accomplishment
Its worth noting that establishing growth at a
company the size of IBMwith72 billion in pro-choice (a.) pro-life
sales last yearit is the 18th largest on the planet geek (n.)
is no mean feat.TIMENOV41996p. Programmers who find the market for Windows
49 software increasingly crowded and unprofitable
IBM see fresh opportunities to make their mark in
720 18 JavaThe geeks are buzzedIt's like a whole
no mean world just opened up to usTIMEJan22
1996p. 42
fold (n.)
Republicans want to slash that rateof Medicare
dramatically. Bill Clinton's advisers believe this is
 Chapter9 89

widen the warTIMEOct101994p.

to make one's mark 19
glut (n.) []surplus
The House of Representatives last week passed a
series of legal-reform bills intended to discourage
frivolous lawsuitsof which there is alleged to be
a glut.TIMEMar.201995p13 heretic (n.)
He has been called a fascista heretic and
shenjingbinga lunatic.TIMEFeb. 20
frivolous (a.) 1995P. 61

holdout (n.)
The RSVPs are inand 196 of the 197
gorge (n.)
nations invited to Atlanta have said yesEven
In the interest of participatory journalismI
holdout North Korea is wavering TIMEJan.
swallowed my rising gorge and triedDoom
81996P. 13
computer gameagain.TIMEDec. 181995
197
p. 60
196

R.S.V.P. rpondez sil vous pla t

in the interest of journalism (n.)
waver (v.)

hacker (n.)
hook-up (n.)
The transformation that has set Microsoft on the
MCI and the Japanese telephone company KDD
road to a Net-based future has also completed
Gates beatification as not just a great hacker but donated an estimated20 million to the cost of
the 45-megabit-per-second data
also a world-class CEOTIMESept.16
hook-upTIMEMar. 111996p. 35
1996P41
MCI KDD 2000

45

iconoclast (n.)
beatification (n.)
Yet this unbending iconoclast lived a life of such

relentless personal rectitude and brought such

unmatched excellence to his many Olympic races
hardler (n.) that he won far more of our experts votes as the
Some captured radio operatorsordered by the greatest Olympian than any other
North Vietnamese to ask for more agents athleteTIMEJune 241996p66
managed to signal to their CIA handlers with code
words that they were being heldTIMEJune
241996P.25

unbending (a.)
relentless (a.)rectitude (n.)
haven (n.) []refuge
MeanwhileNATO Defense Ministers approved indignity (n.) [] humiliation
a plan of intensified retaliation against Bosnian This son of a Georgia sharecropper endured
Serb violations of cease-fire and safe-haven unspeakable indignities and taunts to become
agreementsa move that some fear may only
 Chapter9 90

baseball's first black player.TIMEApr. 28

1997p. 100 15

nostalgia (n.)
taunt (n.) Popular for its satirical toneAll My Children
insurgent (n.) [] rebel tried to capitalize on viewer nostalgia last
Politicians had no credibility with slap-together Januarywhen it celebrated its 25th
committees of insurgents.TIMEMar. 24 anniversaryThe show spent a week reviewing in
1997p. 29 flashback its quarter century on the air.TIME
May 291995 P73
to slap together slap-together
1 25
interlocutor (n.)
Without AmericaGreat Britain and France 25
cannot sustain the political balance in Western review (v.) flashback (n.)
EuropeGermany would be tempted by
nationalismRussia would lack a global novice (n.) [] old hand
interlocutor. TIMEMar. 141994p. 73 While some nations immediately supported the
ideaothers completely missed the point of
Malamud's visionto make the fair a
public-works project that focuses on what the
juggernaut (n.) Internet can offer expert or noviceTIME
Many Americans see Japan's economic juggernaut Mar111996p. 35
as a continuation of war by other
meansTIMEDec. 21991p. 70


lever n. omniscience (n.)
The U.S. has abandoned the trade weapon as a DeepBlue's omniscience will make it
lever to improve human rights in omnipotent. It can play-fight-with the abandon of
ChinaTIMEJune 131994p. 13 an immortal(TIMEFeb261996
P42

minimalism (n.)
One could even argue that Klein's elegant take on abandon (n.)
minimalism has came to define the look of the late
outlay (n.)
20th century in the U.S.TIMEJune 17 But those hoping for new or even replenished
1996p.18 foreign-aid outlays should not hold their breath
there will be little money to throw at problems.
20 TIMENov. 181996p. 33
take (n.)
nausea (n.)
The FDA has approved the first-ever vaccine for to hold one's
hepatitis Awhich afflicts up to 150000 breath
Americans annually with feverachesnausea paranoid (n.)
and vomitingTIMEMar61995 Andy Grovethe Intel CEOhas distilled the
P 25 essence of competing in a high-tech world down
 Chapter9 91

to a single sentenceOnly the paranoid survive. Japanese corporations were quick to seize the
TIMESept161996p. 41 chance of putting their technological prowess on
show.TIMEMar. 111996P35

distill (v.)
pariah (n.) [] outcast pundit (n.)
For decades South Africa was an international [] expert
sports pariahTIMEAug. 19199p. 51 Some pundits speculate that many computers are
obsolete before they're even designedwhich
pestilence (n.) [] plague goes a long way toward explaining why the ATM
Soon the bikini was causing international at my grocery store never worksTIMENov.
incidentsFrance's Mediterranean neighbors 111996p. 16
reacted as if some pestilence were
spreadingItaly and Spain forbade bikinis on
their beachesTIMEJuly 11996p. 54

to go a long way toward

pilgrimage (n.) qualm (n.)
TheyReligionstell us that something is waiting They have no qualms about bestowing their inner
for us on the other sidethat death may be a life on a dozen members of the next generation.
pilgrimage and not a destinationthat the afterlife TIMEMar. 101997p. 41
is a warm awakening after the fretful dream of
lifeTIMEAug. 81994p. 68
rancor (n.) [] bitterness
The nuclear material was made in Russiaand
both Washington and AlmatyKazakhstan's
fretful (a.) capitalknew they had to gain Moscow's approval
ploy (n.) for the unprecedented transferIt did come
It was a familiar ploy for Sun's Joywho helped and apparently without rancorin June. TIME,
foster the growth of the Internet itself in the early Dec51994P. 38
1980s by shipping free Internet Protocol software
with every Sun computer.TIMEJune 221996
p. 44 6

80 rebuke (n.) []reprimand
In a surprising and embarrassing rebuke to the
Justice Departmenta federal judge rejected the
precursor (n.) government's antitrust settlement with
[] forerunner Microsoftthe worlds largest computer software
Under the tutelage of Dan LenoLondons most companyTIMEFeb271995P11
beloved comedian and a precursor of Charlie
ChaplinLizzie became a starTIMEMay
291995p52
redoubt (n.) []haven
In the past decadean economic megaboom on
prowess (n.) this offshore Nationalist Party redoubt has
produced one of the world's largest nest eggs of
 Chapter9 92

foreign-exchange reservesTIMEDec25 merger (n.) lofty (a.)

1995/Jan. 11996p. 54 10 spin-off (n.)
The filmwhich links Michael Jordan with Bugs
BunnyDaffy Duck and the rest of the Looney
remnant (n.) Tunes stablehas generated more than 200
The setting [of the wedding] was one of the spin-off items that Warner is hoping will
wildunspoiled sea islands off Georgiato eventually pull1 billion.TIMEDec.2
visitorsthey seem like remnants of the New 1996p. 70
World as it was before its discoveryTIME
Oct. 71996p. 42

10
unspoiled stable (n.)
(a.) swap (n.)
reprimandnv Electronic Artsa leading producer of games for
[](v.)admonish personal computers and video-game machines
The Navy claims it punished Meyer with a letter announced it will acquire Broderbund Software in
of reprimand that effectively ended his career. a400-million stock swapTIMEFeb.21
TIMEAug. 151994p37 1994P.15

4
rigor (n.)
A committee of Taiwanese curators and university tabloid (n.)
scholarsexamined the works that were ready to []broadsheet
be crated and requested that certain pieces
But public male heterosexualitylike water
considered too fragile to withstand the rigors of
seeking its own levelhas settled down in the
travel be withdrawn. TIMEApr. 11996p.47
tabloid bottomlands, where it does its best to

provide low entertainmentTIMESept23

1996P.60

curator (n.)cratev

thrall (n.)
scourge (n.) If nothing else, the sense of crisis and impending
Earlier this centurybreakthroughs in antibiotics doom that Asahara cultivated has kept his
inspired similarly confident predictions that the followers in his thrall.TIMEApr. 31995
ancient scourges (infectious diseases) would soon
P30
be eradicatedTIMEMay 271996p. 67

impending (a.)
eradicate (v.)

traction (n.)
shackles (n.)

As for Ted Turnerthe merger liberates his lofty Dole has even been unable to find traction on
ambition from the shackles of cash-strapped
defense spending. (TIMESept. 21996
circumstance.TIMEJuly 291996p. 43
P23

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trauma (n.) 1994 11 32

What does seem clear is that pedophilialike
many sexual disordersmay have at its root some studio (n.)
childhood sexual traumaTIMESept2
1996p. 41

twist (n.)
The 1996 world's fair is no exceptionbut it also
has a decidedly eve-of-the-21st-century twistthe
whole event happens in cyberspaceTIME
Mar. 111996p. 3 5
1996
21

variant (n.)
Over the yearsthere have been women
wrestlersincluding a renowned nunand a
variant so bloody that the sport was briefly
banned.TIMESept.301996P29

venue (n.)
If New York City is the premier venue for
political fund raisingBob Dole appears to be its
unchallenged starTIMEApr. 171995
P.13

volatility (n.)
[]instability
And the Kuala Lumpur stock exchangethough
the world's 15th largestis plagued by volatility
and frequent rumors of trading by politically
linked partiesTIMEDec41995p. 26
15

write-off (n.)
In November 1994 the corporationSonytook a
32 billion write-off for five years of studio
mismanagementTIMEFeb241997p.
42
m