Monday, March 31, 2008

newweek vocab Post #3

  1. Reconiliation
  2. Noun
  3. My understanding of the word reconciliation form reading the Article "Scions of the Serge"in Newsweek magazine, is to make peace or settle a dispute after a worngful act.
  4. His constant push to get community leaders to talk may be the best way to make amends. Just don't call it reconciliation.
  5. The process of making consistent or compatible.
  1. Ubiquitous
  2. Adjective
  3. By reading the sentence in an article about the war in Iraqi was able to get some understand of the word ubiquitous; hidden or in secret.
  4. Working through the ubiquitous translater Ali,X began to communicate with Wright every day, building trust.
  5. Existing or being elsewhere, aspecially at the same time, omnipresent

Newsweek Vocab Post #1

  1. Fugitive
  2. Noun
  3. Wrights boss, Lutient Col. Walter Piatt, decided that if they couldn't kill or capture the fugitive, they co-opt him
  4. Based on my prior knowledge and from reading the article I was able to figure out the definition of this term, a person who was held captive or prisoner. The article is about war so that also helped.
  5. A person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstance.
  6. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fugitive