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belting | 1complex | 8 | WASHINGTON -- Whether belting out lyrics to Al Green 's `` Let 's Stay Together , '' leading a mournful congregation through `` Amazing Grace , '' or tweeting his Spotify music playlist that includes Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone , President Barack Obama has shown that he 's a pretty soulful guy . | 3 |
tallying | 1complex | 5 | And he took a sophomore-level course by MIT professor Anant Agarwal called `` Circuits and Electronics , '' tallying 91 percent . | 18 |
uncertain | 0simple | 0 | `` In no uncertain terms , it 's been the worst winter on the lakes in 35 years . | 3 |
balloons | 0simple | 0 | Its launch Friday was part an offbeat experiment by Google in using lighter-than-air balloons , a concept pioneered in the 18th century , to solve the 21st-century problem of delivering Internet service to underserved parts of the world . | 13 |
Crew | 0simple | 0 | The firefighters belonged to the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew , an elite unit sponsored by a fire department in nearby Prescott , where residents were grieving through social media after word of the deaths arrived Sunday night . | 9 |
hypothetical | 1complex | 9 | What has long been a hypothetical question may soon become a real one : What would the national economy look like with a $ 15-an-hour minimum wage ? | 5 |
restaurant | 0simple | 0 | Because if you shut off the supply of 24-ounce fountain drinks , bacon cheeseburgers , fried chicken and stuffed tacos , the children who frequently eat at fast-food restaurants will go home and do what they generally do when not eating at a fast-food restaurant : They 'll snarf cookies and chips , chug sugar-sweetened... | 44 |
supervision | 1complex | 6 | ## Liberation Day For the first time in 22 years -- since Briscoe was 14 years old -- the former Vice Lord gang member and five-time felon was free of any kind of state supervision . | 34 |
Latino | 0simple | 0 | That the campaign hired her speaks to the growing influence of the immigrant youth movement she helped lead , as well as the distinct demographics of Latino voters . | 26 |
punishing | 1complex | 4 | LOS GATOS , Calif. -- Three punishing years of drought have parched California streams , rivers and wetlands . | 6 |
network | 0simple | 0 | But after a trial run in New Zealand earlier this year , DeVaul and other engineers on the project say they believe a global network of low-cost , high-altitude balloons could carry enough wireless transponders to beam Internet connections to remote parts of Africa , Asia and other developing regions . | 24 |
Trombone | 0simple | 0 | The latest installment of the PBS series `` In Performance at the White House '' celebrated the history of American music with performances by Queen Latifah , Smokey Robinson , Usher , Trombone Shorty and Esperanza Spalding , among others . | 32 |
quest | 1complex | 6 | The river is the site of the final battle in the long-running quest to eradicate the beaver-like rodents -LRB- `` nutria '' means `` otter '' in Spanish -RRB- that have destroyed thousands of acres of the state 's wetlands over the past 40 years . | 12 |
prayed | 0simple | 0 | He prayed that he 'd live to see 21 . | 1 |
many | 0simple | 0 | Virginia was one of many states that moved to offer more personal-finance courses on the heels of the Great Recession , hoping to instill practical money-management skills to help the next generation avoid the pitfalls that many of their parents experienced . | 4 |
deliberate | 1complex | 8 | The remains of people who lived even earlier had been found , but archaeologists assumed they were preserved naturally from burial in the hot and dry desert sand and not through any deliberate mummification by their survivors . | 32 |
battled | 0simple | 0 | With a new army of workers , the latest in steam-powered machinery and an intense focus on keeping workers healthy , the Americans battled through the muddy ground , digging deep and constructing gigantic concrete locks to raise and lower ships as they went through the canal . | 23 |
followed | 0simple | 0 | The awkward kickoff for a series of official meetings in Beijing followed Biden 's speech earlier Wednesday urging young Chinese citizens to challenge orthodoxy and the status quo . | 11 |
24-ounce | 0simple | 0 | Because if you shut off the supply of 24-ounce fountain drinks , bacon cheeseburgers , fried chicken and stuffed tacos , the children who frequently eat at fast-food restaurants will go home and do what they generally do when not eating at a fast-food restaurant : They 'll snarf cookies and chips , chug sugar-sweetened... | 8 |
levying | 1complex | 7 | As many cities and states promote walkable neighborhoods , in part to attract more young people , some also are levying fines on distracted walkers and lowering speed limits to make streets gentler for the inattentive . | 20 |
fourth-graders | 0simple | 0 | BERKELEY , Calif. -- To save their classmate who was deported to Mexico , the fourth-graders devised an epic plan . | 15 |
far-flung | 0simple | 0 | Lost in the debate about online learning , however , is its impact in far-flung regions of the globe , places like the electrical engineering department at the University of El Salvador and the modest walk-up apartment of the Palacios family , above the medical clinic of Dr. Roberto Palacios Navarro , Roosemberth 's fa... | 14 |
transmitted | 1complex | 8 | In an address transmitted on Brazilian television and radio Friday night , Rousseff asked for understanding about `` the political and economic limitations '' the country is facing and beseeched Brazilians not `` to put at risk all that we 've achieved . | 3 |
job | 0simple | 0 | It took Francisco `` Frank '' Miranda , a veteran of the war in Afghanistan , about three years to find a job in the civilian world that was a good fit . | 22 |
expensive | 0simple | 0 | The states could become the first to pass such a referendum ; Washington state and California rejected similar measures after expensive campaigns in 2013 and 2012 , respectively . | 20 |
jurors | 0simple | 0 | The jurors were told to consider two sets of factors when considering the sentence . | 1 |
implications | 0simple | 0 | The illicit industry also has significant national security implications . | 8 |
partisan | 1complex | 8 | The problems Ryan identified had less to do with partisan gridlock between Republicans and Democrats and more to do with divisions within his own party stoked by difference over tactics and ideology . | 9 |
wisecracks | 1complex | 6 | Three weeks after receiving a kidney transplant from his brother , a former Ravens ' player , Chris Kemoeatu has heard all of the wisecracks . | 24 |
teeth | 0simple | 0 | With their industrial-strength buck teeth and flat tails , beavers and their dams offer a defense against drought . | 4 |
case | 0simple | 0 | The case is just one example in a recent spate of animals turning up in places they do n't belong - generally , either Pacific species showing up in the Atlantic , or vice versa . | 1 |
pretty | 0simple | 0 | `` Everybody is counting on crab to make it , so this is pretty disappointing , '' said Larry Collins , president of the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association . | 13 |
remaining | 0simple | 0 | About 35,000 -- or nearly 10 percent of the remaining population -- are being slaughtered each year . | 9 |
leisurely | 1complex | 9 | The Nizards complain that Sacha has lost his bearings , and that their leisurely Tuesday evenings , when the family could go out to dinner or Sacha could watch TV without worrying about class the next morning , have been sabotaged . | 13 |
groundwork | 1complex | 4 | `` Clearly Eiji was the person that laid the groundwork for what Toyota is today , '' said David Cole , former chairman of the nonprofit Center for Automotive Research . | 9 |
disaster | 0simple | 0 | The 2015 seaweed invasion appears to be a bumper crop , with a number of shorelines so severely hit that some tourists have canceled summer trips and lawmakers on Tobago have termed it a `` natural disaster . '' | 36 |
flicker | 1complex | 7 | LOS ANGELES -- The amber lights flicker on above the tennis courts at DeForest Park in Long Beach . | 6 |
sphere | 1complex | 4 | Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are barred from driving , but debate about the ban , once confined to the private sphere and social media , is increasingly spreading to public forums too . | 27 |
publisher | 1complex | 3 | `` It 's a major step for them , '' said Dan Sarto , co-founder and publisher of Animation World Network . | 16 |
vegetables | 0simple | 0 | Many are small farmers and vintners who either lack irrigated water or believe that dry farming produces better-tasting fruits and vegetables . | 20 |
forward | 0simple | 0 | He also can not participate in any league business going forward . | 10 |
cave | 0simple | 0 | PRIVAS , France -- Jean-Marie Chauvet noticed air whistling out from a crack on a plateau in southern France , so he and fellow cave enthusiasts went to investigate . | 24 |
Apple | 0simple | 0 | Apple told her the charges were valid purchases from the game DragonVale . | 0 |
south-central | 0simple | 0 | ANCHORAGE , Alaska -- Many middle school students in south-central Alaska spent spring break playing video games , skiing in what little snow has fallen or just enjoying a lazy week away from school . | 9 |
magazine | 0simple | 0 | `` I just cried , '' Allen recalls of the moment when he saw his image framed in red on the front of the magazine . | 24 |
pens | 0simple | 0 | At a local elementary school this month , Kyle moved boxes crammed with pens , pencils , crayons , markers and mechanical pencils with his mom 's help . | 13 |
speaking | 0simple | 0 | One female activist , speaking on condition of anonymity , said the publication of the video clips and photographs was the first part of a two-stage campaign designed to change attitudes . | 4 |
foot | 0simple | 0 | But lose a leg , as Zac Vawter did after a motorcycle accident in 2009 , and you will appreciate the myriad calculations that go into putting one foot in front of the other . | 28 |
disapproved | 1complex | 4 | Independents disapproved 56 percent to 41 percent . | 1 |
range | 0simple | 0 | The expanding range of Naegleria infections could potentially be related to climate change , she adds , as the organism thrives in warmer temperatures . | 2 |
wins | 0simple | 0 | The first team to score wins . | 5 |
remarkable | 0simple | 0 | But it is Vawter 's ability to control the prosthetic with his thoughts that makes the latest case remarkable . | 18 |
suburban | 1complex | 8 | The girls were paired in the Rising Stars Buddy Baseball program in west suburban Wheaton , Illinois , which matches students with special needs with partners on the field . | 13 |
bottle | 0simple | 0 | Because if you shut off the supply of 24-ounce fountain drinks , bacon cheeseburgers , fried chicken and stuffed tacos , the children who frequently eat at fast-food restaurants will go home and do what they generally do when not eating at a fast-food restaurant : They 'll snarf cookies and chips , chug sugar-sweetened... | 58 |
surge | 1complex | 6 | But nonetheless , the 24-year-old civil engineer from Baghdad plans to fly to Turkey next week in order to join the surge of migrants and refugees making a bid for a better life in Europe . | 21 |
exception | 0simple | 0 | Under the new policy , those two hours include using the Internet for entertainment , including Facebook , Twitter , TV and movies ; online homework is an exception . | 28 |
passage | 1complex | 3 | The passage is , of course , the literary skeleton of what down-on-his-luck Samuel Clemens would transform into literary gold , a wildly improbable story originally called Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog , '' which introduced much of the 19th-century world to Mark Twain . | 1 |
purchases | 1complex | 3 | `` You can not charge consumers for purchases they did not authorize , '' said Edith Ramirez , the commission chairwoman . | 7 |
models | 0simple | 0 | Scientists analyzed more than 200 published food-web -LRB- interacting food chains -RRB- models from all over the world , which included more than 3,000 ocean species . | 12 |
opening | 0simple | 0 | They 're arguing that as sea ice continues to melt in the Arctic , passageways are opening for certain animals - heretofore restricted by the ice - to start moving through , enabling them to cross into new territories . | 16 |
orbiting | 1complex | 5 | As the largest , heaviest object orbiting our sun , Jupiter 's namesake world is the lord of planets , a dominant force in the solar system . | 6 |
poisonings | 1complex | 4 | Already perceived as ugly and saddled with being a symbol of death and decay in many cultures , their numbers are dropping because of poaching , poisonings and collisions with electricity pylons and wind turbines . | 26 |
justice | 0simple | 0 | Government officials promise to give the children their day in court , but immigration advocates fear that even though justice may be swift , it will not necessarily be fair . | 19 |
hearings | 0simple | 0 | If the agency decides to proceed with reintroducing grizzlies , the next step will be a lengthy process that includes scientific reviews and public hearings that could take years . | 24 |
dolphin | 0simple | 0 | For the people on the Solomon Islands , it 's long been about the teeth : Necklaces made of dolphin teeth are `` bride prizes , '' given by grooms to their betrothed . | 19 |
body | 0simple | 0 | CHICAGO -- For years a general complaint about dolls has been that they send the wrong messages to children , whether it 's promoting an unrealistic body image or reinforcing stereotypes about girly interests . | 26 |
nod | 1complex | 4 | It will be a nod to his West Baltimore neighborhood -- where more friends and peers than he can count on all his fingers have died in gun violence . | 4 |
Thinking | 0simple | 0 | Thinking of being in the sky brought the 17-year-old some respite . | 0 |
leaving | 0simple | 0 | The machines spent a good deal of time on the sidelines , leaving humans to do the most hazardous work . | 12 |
barriers | 1complex | 4 | When Superintendent Tiffany Anderson arrived here 3 1/2 years ago , she was determined to clear the barriers that so often keep poor kids from learning . | 16 |
teaches | 0simple | 0 | `` A lot of times kids want to test me because I was in the military , '' said Anthony Kajencki , a West Point graduate and former air defense artillery officer who teaches at Northern High School in Durham , N.C. '' ` Look at this guy . | 33 |
bundle | 1complex | 3 | A report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine describes how the team fit Vawter with a prosthetic leg that has learned -- with the help of a computer and some electrodes -- to read his intentions from a bundle of nerves that end above his missing knee . | 41 |
supervisor | 1complex | 4 | But not Guoshing Cui , a Samsung supervisor from Guangzhou . | 7 |
exposing | 0simple | 0 | Many fear the day when Wyoming 's oil market fails , as it last did in the mid-1980s , exposing a fundamental flaw in the state 's job picture : The lure of the oil dollar has prompted teenagers to skip college , or abandon high school , for the petroleum fields -- many without a Plan B if things go bust . | 19 |
swimming | 0simple | 0 | Last week , 9-year-old Hally Yust died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba infection while swimming near her family 's home in Kansas . | 15 |
Israrullah | 0simple | 0 | He said the two men convicted -- identified only as Izhar and Israrullah -- have each been sentenced to 46 years ' imprisonment for the attack on Malala . | 12 |
clips | 0simple | 0 | One female activist , speaking on condition of anonymity , said the publication of the video clips and photographs was the first part of a two-stage campaign designed to change attitudes . | 16 |
pick | 0simple | 0 | Toughened ships like Marchenko 's converted Arctic fishing vessel , the RV Lance , can usually pick their way slowly through it . | 16 |
developing | 1complex | 6 | But the more important number may be the 39,000 hours Disney Animation spent developing the computer program that made the movie possible . | 13 |
hurling | 1complex | 4 | The state news agency said about 500 young men hurling stones and Molotov cocktails set ablaze the headquarters of Morsi 's Muslim Brotherhood party in Cairo . | 9 |
surrounds | 1complex | 4 | On the chain-link fence that surrounds the courts , spray paint marks the goals . | 5 |
free | 0simple | 0 | <img class="pull-right" src="https://newsela-test-files-f331e.s3.amazonaws.com/article_media/extra/20140630_ISLAMICSTATE.jpg" /> KALAK , Iraq -- Waving pots and pans , police pushed back dozens of hungry Iraqi refugees as they rushed to seize free food , ending their first daylong fast of the holy Muslim month of... | 23 |
wreckage | 1complex | 5 | `` The appearance of at least some wreckage takes it out of the realm of ` vanished without a trace , cue the music , ' with ` OK , sure , it did go down in the ocean , ' '' said Ric Gillespie , a former U.S. aviation accident investigator who wrote a book about Earhart 's still-unsolved 1937 disappearance over the Pac... | 7 |
unfazed | 1complex | 5 | Onstage , the players are stone-faced and appear unfazed by the commotion around them . | 8 |
separatists | 1complex | 8 | It is a story that echoes among the tens of thousands of Ukrainian residents who fled their homes when fighting intensified in August between pro-Russia separatists and Ukrainian government forces . | 25 |
deportation | 1complex | 7 | `` I believe a large number , 50 percent , have been able to show up in immigration court and have been allowed to stay , avoiding deportation , '' said Nora Sandigo , leader of American Fraternity . | 27 |
sued | 0simple | 0 | In August , it sued to block a 2011 Texas voter-identification measure . | 4 |
rise | 0simple | 0 | Afghans have grown familiar with firearms over long decades of war , from the 1979 Soviet invasion and the resulting insurgency to the civil war and the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s . | 27 |
implicitly | 1complex | 7 | He defended his record -- and implicitly urged the public to elect another Democratic president to build on it -- but acknowledged the persistent anxieties of Americans who feel shut out of a changing economy or at risk from an evolving terror threat . | 6 |
bystander | 1complex | 5 | The shooting April 4 was captured on video by a bystander , showing Officer Michael Slager firing eight times as 50-year-old Walter Scott ran away , inflaming a national debate about how black people are treated by white police officers . | 10 |
evident | 1complex | 6 | `` Given the way the meeting transpired , '' Ray Halbritter , an Oneida representative and leader of the `` Change the Mascot Campaign , '' said Wednesday , `` it became somewhat evident they were defending the continued use of the name . | 33 |
diving | 0simple | 0 | `` It would n't fluke up , '' Nancy Black , a marine biologist on board the ship that day said , referring to the picture-perfect tail flip that humpbacks display before diving to feed . | 32 |
downturns | 1complex | 6 | Business owners warn it will tie their hands in downturns , drive small employers out of business and lead to millions of layoffs . | 9 |
riverside | 1complex | 4 | NEW YORK -- A New York City commuter train rounding a riverside curve derailed Sunday , killing four people and injuring more than 60 in a crash that threw passengers from the toppling cars and left a snaking chain of twisted wreckage just inches from the water . | 11 |
expands | 1complex | 5 | SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court became the first in the nation to rule that prospective jurors may not be excluded because of their sexual orientation , a decision that expands juror protections beyond race and gender and provides legal ammunition to challenge laws that limit gay rights . | 31 |
segregation | 1complex | 9 | Five million public school students in Texas will begin using new social studies textbooks this fall based on state academic standards that barely address racial segregation . | 25 |
owls | 0simple | 0 | It turned out there were 10 owls in Bagu 's dark , warm attic . | 6 |
eradication | 1complex | 9 | WICOMICO RIVER , Md. -- On the wall of the nutria eradication team 's drab office at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge , there 's a large whiteboard with names and numbers on it . | 11 |
faulted | 1complex | 8 | Blistering audits have faulted efforts to fight what one official called a `` rat crisis . '' | 3 |
golfers | 0simple | 0 | Castro is among those experienced golfers plagued by an inexplicable phenomenon known as the yips . | 5 |
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