Word: smallest
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Even in Hatewatch's smallest category--anti-Christian-the two groups represented there fail to take the same line...
...concept that Adams brought to the fore was "phonemic awareness." Phonemes are the smallest meaningful sounds in a language. English has 44 phonemes that its speakers combine to make all its words. Cat, for example, has three: "kuh-aa-tuh." Adams concluded that in order to read, one must understand that the sounds in a word can be broken up this way; it must also be understood that letters represent these sounds. Some people have phonemic awareness intuitively, but others must be taught it, which can be done with simple exercises...
Sporting the smallest team at the show, the Harvard riders tied for third place with Tufts. Harvard indeed held its own against top-notch competition such as Mt. Ida, Dartmouth, Boston University, Bates, University of Vermont, MIT and Endicott...
...have the peculiar quality of being shaken by events of the smallest magnitude. As if the they were capable of throwing off the direction of your journey. Hah. Beef...
...built to a dreamy sigh. Lilith offers the audience three stages, in separate locations, of gradually descending size and occupied by performers at staggered time intervals. McLachlan was the first act up, playing a spare, unassuming set by herself, holding only her acoustic guitar, on the third and smallest stage, which was about the size of a tollbooth. Cassandra Wilson, on the medium-size second stage later in the day, was the Fair's most disarming delight--her smart, laughing, 30-minute set began with a few dozen people watching but ended with several hundred, who gave her a standing...