Word: comprehend
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...it’s largely due to progression through the series. You realize things are more related or relevant than you originally thought,” Yock said. “At the same time, I don’t think that if I were a fifth grader . . . I comprehend it at a level above a fifth grader...
...scholarship, taught him to fear." Deng Xiaoping cleared Tiananmen Square by force in 1989 in part because of vivid memories of the luan, or chaos, caused by rampaging Red Guards; Nazi Brown Shirts would have made a similar impression on Kissinger. Given this context, it's easier to comprehend the striking degree of empathy Kissinger displayed following the Tiananmen crackdown. "No government in the world would have tolerated having the main square of its capital occupied for eight weeks by tens of thousands of demonstrators," he noted - and then counseled everyone return to business...
Your writers asked if there is too muchreading and math in Grades 1 through 6. Children need to master the Three Rs (reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic) to fully comprehend and appreciate history, science and all other subjects. Those who don't will truly be left behind...
...we’ve met here at Harvard, whether it was drunk at senior bar, in a slightly more comprising way at the Last Chance Dance, or even on move-in day of freshman year, have improved our lives, the total benefit of which we won’t comprehend until many years down the road...
...both in and outside of that country targeting the U.S. The President very quickly put it to political use against the Democrats. On Wednesday, speaking at a commencement address to the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., he said: "The question for our elected leaders is: Do we comprehend the danger of an al-Qaeda victory in Iraq, and will we do what it takes to stop them? However difficult the fight in Iraq has become, we must win it. Al-Qaeda is public enemy number one for Iraq's young democracy, and al-Qaeda is public enemy number...