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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - June 27, 2012

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  1. escalate
    increase in extent or intensity
    Buoyed by support from its NATO allies, Turkey escalated its warnings against Syria on Tuesday, even as some American and allied officials privately raised questions about whether the Turkish warplane shot down by Syrian air defenses — provoking the denunciation — had been on a spy mission.
  2. bellicose
    having or showing a ready disposition to fight
    Mr. Erdogan’s bellicose tone came as ambassadors from the Atlantic alliance, seeking to avoid a wider conflict, held emergency talks in Brussels at Turkey’s behest.
  3. parody
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
    Soon she was contributing to a parody of The New York Post put out during the 1962 newspaper strike.
  4. guise
    an artful or simulated semblance
    The scene wouldn’t have gotten past the Hollywood censors of the past, but in many other respects Ms. Ephron’s films are old-fashioned movies, only in a brand-new guise.
  5. decipher
    convert something hidden or secretive into ordinary language
    Alabama officials said they were studying the Supreme Court decision to decipher its impact on the state law.
  6. irreparable
    impossible to rectify or amend
    “The irreparable harms are just too severe.”
  7. assertion
    a declaration that is made emphatically
    That assertion, however, did not dispel doubts among officials here, in allied capitals and even in the blogosphere, that the training exercise also included some reconnaissance.
  8. dispel
    force to go away
    That assertion, however, did not dispel doubts among officials here, in allied capitals and even in the blogosphere, that the training exercise also included some reconnaissance.
  9. veer
    turn sharply; change direction abruptly
    After it was hit, the plane veered to the left and crashed, he said.
  10. constitute
    form or compose
    “Every military element that approaches the Turkish border from Syria in a manner that constitutes a security risk or danger would be considered as a threat and would be treated as a military target,” he said in a speech to lawmakers attended by Arab diplomats.
Created on 六月 27, 2012 (updated 六月 27, 2012)

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