◎◎◎ perigee ⪢⪢
Now about half a month later, the moon has orbited halfway around its path and it gets to its closest point to the earth. We refer to this as
perigee.
→ apogee,
perihelion
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◎◎◎ forces ⪢⪢
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in clashes in the West Bank and a third in Jerusalem after he opened fire at police, hours after Israeli soldiers were wounded in a car attack in Jerusalem.
┆an organized body of military
personnel or police
→ troops
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○○○ would ⪢⪢
When
Persephone was with her mother, Demeter _____ shine from happiness and the land _____ become fertile and fruitful and this was spring and summer.
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○○○ would ⪢⪢
His heart _____ soften when he saw
Persephone and he was amazed by her youth and her beauty and her freshness. He asked Demeter to marry
Persephone but Demeter said that that _____ never happen.
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○○○ Peru ⪢⪢
In
Peru, police guard an area around the national legislature. On Monday President Martin Vizcarra dismissed Congress and called for new elections.
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○○○ influencer ⪢⪢
A social media influencer is a
person who gets paid to promote certain products or services to their follower base on media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and so on.
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○○○ synchronous ⪢⪢
Because the moon's
period of rotation is equal to its
period of revolution, that is to say, because the moon takes the same amount of time to spin as it does to orbit the earth, we from the earth only ever see one face of the moon.
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○○○ Mona Lisa ⪢⪢
This is
perhaps the best known painting in the world. The Mona Lisa shows the head and shoulders of a dark-haired woman. When people look at this painting, they are often captivated by her smile and by her eyes which have a look of mystery.
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○○○ third person ⪢⪢
He explains that English does not have a third
person singular pronoun that does not identify as male or female.
Zimmer says that more and more "they" is being used to replace the traditional phrase, "he or she".
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○○○ wreckage ⪢⪢
Chinese emergency workers find nine bodies in a mine that collapsed two weeks ago in Shandong province. On Sunday, China pulled eleven survivors from the wreckage. One
person died earlier; another remains missing.
2021-01-25
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○○○ plunge ⪢⪢
These incidents, many caught on video over the past 2 decades, show U.S. military encounters with shadowy objects that seem capable of traveling upwards at 11,000 miles
per hour, changing direction and plunging into water without slowing down. #bookmark
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○○○ jargon ⪢⪢
Again I'm sure you heard a teacher or a grammar book point out that with the third conditional you use if plus the past
perfect, plus would or wouldn't have and the past participle. That's a lot of jargon.
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○○○ intimidating ⪢⪢
Speed, strength and aggression, these made Mike Tyson the most dangerous
person on the planet. His boxing style was both ferocious and intimidating which was better and more powerful in the style of most other boxers in the ring.
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○○○ hold out ⪢⪢
Suddenly it seems plant-based meat is everywhere, grocery stores, sit down restaurants even fast food chains but
perhaps the world's most famous fast food chain is holding out.
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○○○ commission ⪢⪢
China's national health commission announces changes to its "Zero-COVID" policy
permitting some infected people to recover at home and ending some testing requirements.
2022-12-07
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