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  1. dire straits
    a state of extreme distress
    FITZPATRICK: If somebody was in real dire straits and they were, you know, something happened to their crop of food or they were running low on provisions, and they had some stone money, they might trade.
  2. cumbersome
    difficult to handle or use, especially because of size or weight
    KESTENBAUM: So you've got money but it weighs as much as a car, which makes it pretty cumbersome.
  3. ungainly
    lacking grace in movement or posture
    FITZPATRICK: Yeah, way bigger weighing and very ungainly to move.
  4. dowry
    money brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
    You'd use it for something big like, say, a dowry.
  5. pundit
    an expert who publicly gives opinions via mass media
    In The Blank Slate, he notes "that there is a quasi-religious theory of human nature that is prevalent among pundits and intellectuals, which includes both empirical assumptions about how the mind works and a set of values that people hang...
  6. discourse
    an extended communication dealing with some particular topic
    But lawmakers said they expected a leveling of the discourse on even the most divisive issues, like cutting spending, whether to raise the federal debt limit and the Republican measure to repeal the Democrats’ health care overhaul, which the House is set to vote on this week.
  7. indenture
    formal agreement as to terms of a debt
    Behind the headlines that lay behind these buildings is the fate of the often-indentured construction worker. 1.1 million of them.
  8. overwhelm
    overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
    But the numbers are simply overwhelming
  9. complacent
    contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
    The question is, as a building professional, as an architect, an engineer, as a developer, if you know this is going on, as we go to the sights every single week, are you complacent or complicit in the human rights violations?
  10. contentious
    showing an inclination to disagree
Created on 三月 8, 2011 (updated 三月 10, 2011)

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