1B-15 Today's News

Saturday, January 25, 2014

1B-15 Today's News

1B-15 Today's News: Information or Entertainment?

abandon -- biased -- contemporary -- dramatic -- exploit

Achieve Readings

When Sinking a Ship is Good News -- Generate Questions
A New Home for Two Pandas -- Compare and Contrast
Not the News! --
What are they trying to sell? -- Generating Questions
To Warn the People -- Main Idea

Word Generation Pages - -1B-15

Definition

academic

|ˌakəˈdemik|

adjective

relating to education and scholarship: academic achievement

ex-ploit

To take advantage of a person or opportunity; to make use of something, sometimes unfairly

--- exploitation, exploitative, exploiting

dis·cre·tion

/disˈkreSHən/

Noun

The freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation.
The quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense or revealing private information.

prac·ti·cal

/ˈpraktikəl/
Adjective
describing anything that is useful, effective or efficient.
describing anything likely to succeed or be effective in real circumstances; feasible.
Synonyms
handy - real - businesslike - virtual

sta·tis·tic

/stəˈtistik/

Noun

A fact or piece of data from a study of a large quantity of numerical data: "the statistics show that the crime rate has increased".

intrinsic |inˈtrinzik, -sik|adjectivedescribing anything that belongs naturally; anything that is essential: Access to the arts is intrinsic to a high quality of life.

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Saturday, January 25, 2014

1B-15 Today's News

/ˈpraktikəl/
Adjective
describing anything that is useful, effective or efficient.
describing anything likely to succeed or be effective in real circumstances; feasible.
Synonyms
handy - real - businesslike - virtual

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