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compose | 1complex | 7 | Most of us have experienced writer 's block at some point , sitting down to write , paint or compose only to find we ca n't get the creative juices flowing . | 19 |
ethnic | 1complex | 8 | It is unclear how many of them are ethnic Russians , but local humanitarian workers confirmed that most aid recipients appeared to have ethnic or family ties to Russia . | 8 |
scenarios | 0simple | 0 | Their work , which was published in the journal Nature , was focused on the children 's reaction to two types of scenarios that are unfair . | 22 |
extension | 1complex | 3 | Major construction on the highly anticipated Westside subway extension wo n't begin until next year , but an exploratory shaft dug at the corner of Ogden Drive to assess soil conditions for future stations and tunnels has burped up a bonanza of prehistoric swag . | 8 |
karate | 1complex | 3 | But this karate grandma is no joke . | 2 |
snarf | 1complex | 6 | 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... | 48 |
samples | 0simple | 0 | In 2014 , Oceana , an international conservation organization , published a two-year study of 1,215 seafood samples and 46 fish types from 674 retailers in 21 states . | 17 |
Reading | 0simple | 0 | Reading proficiency remained level in Connecticut , which had the highest percentage of fourth-graders reading proficiently in 2003 , and in Montana . | 0 |
divisions | 1complex | 4 | Speech that creates ethnic divisions has been outlawed . | 4 |
shells | 0simple | 0 | COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER , France -- Gone are the screaming shells , seasick soldiers and bloodied waters of 1944 . | 8 |
telegraph | 1complex | 7 | And when it comes to the Civil War , children are supposed to learn that the conflict was caused by `` sectionalism , states ' rights and slavery '' -- written deliberately in that order to telegraph slavery 's secondary role in driving the conflict , according to some members of the State Board of Education . | 36 |
mammoths | 0simple | 0 | Since most modern humans will never get to see the masterpieces in what is widely known as the Chauvet Cave , scientists , artists and the French government have spent 56 million euros -LRB- about $ 60 million -RRB- and several years creating the next best thing : a near-exact replica of the cave about 2 kilometers -LR... | 75 |
collision | 1complex | 5 | Jupiter still shepherds swarms of asteroids , occasionally sending some whizzing harmlessly into interstellar space or on destructive collision courses with Earth and other planets . | 18 |
laborers | 1complex | 4 | `` It 's hard out here , '' he says of Cutler-Orosi , adding that many people work as farm laborers and there are lots of gangs . | 20 |
released | 0simple | 0 | In the months after the outrage stirred by the deaths of Brown and another unarmed African-American , Eric Garner , in New York , singer D'Angelo released his first album in more than a decade , `` Black Messiah , '' which included references both glancing and startlingly direct to the chain of events between Selma and... | 26 |
circumstances | 1complex | 9 | On Wednesday , Kemoeatu -LRB- key-moy-AH-too -RRB- and his brother Ma'ake -LRB- ma-AH-kay -RRB- spoke at the University of Maryland Medical Center of the unusual circumstances surrounding their Aug. 27 surgeries there . | 25 |
satisfied | 1complex | 3 | Neither the members nor the people are satisfied with how things are going . | 7 |
enacted | 1complex | 4 | The North Carolina law is one of a series enacted in Republican-governed states imposing new requirements on casting ballots . | 9 |
credited | 1complex | 3 | Toyoda , who is credited with developing the car company 's efficient , low-defect manufacturing processes and who helped spearhead Toyota 's aggressive push into the U.S. auto market , died Tuesday . | 4 |
ambitious | 1complex | 8 | The app is part of an ambitious effort by environmentalists to use data and social media to use the power of public opinion in a country that lacks other routes to social change , such as elections or an independent judiciary . | 6 |
ritual | 1complex | 4 | STATE COLLEGE , Pa. -- At St. Paul 's Episcopal School in Mobile , Alabama , the high school that produced Crimson Tide quarterbacks AJ McCarron and Jake Coker , there 's a new preseason ritual for football players : the social media talk . | 35 |
difficult | 0simple | 0 | `` It is very difficult to push for these kinds of changes on a national level ... It has taken many , many years . '' | 4 |
impose | 1complex | 5 | In January , city council members voted to ban sledding in 48 of the city 's 50 public parks and impose a $ 750 fine on repeat offenders . | 20 |
nomination | 0simple | 0 | He won the support of all but nine of his Republican colleagues a day after 43 had voted for another candidate in a closed-door nomination vote . | 24 |
GPS | 0simple | 0 | Investigators have used ground-penetrating radar and specialized GPS devices to peek below the landscape , but no one is entirely certain why the holes form along the surface of this landmark , which attracts thousands of visitors each year . | 7 |
run | 0simple | 0 | Because beavers are so good at recharging ground water , they can make streams flow when they would otherwise run dry such as during the summer months . | 19 |
northern | 0simple | 0 | BEIRUT , Lebanon -- U.S.-led airstrikes across a broad swath of northern Syria appear to have caused extensive damage to militant positions on the ground and left an unknown number of casualties , according to initial reports emerging Tuesday . | 11 |
contact | 0simple | 0 | New York and New Jersey announced mandatory quarantines for anyone traveling from three West African nations who has had direct contact with an Ebola patient , including health care workers . | 20 |
slew | 1complex | 5 | When she opened her credit card statement , she saw a slew of charges from Apple , totaling $ 600 in one day . | 11 |
rainy | 0simple | 0 | Only about half the rainy season is over . | 4 |
low-income | 0simple | 0 | But the Jennings School District -- serving about 3,000 students in a low-income , predominantly African-American jurisdiction just north of St. Louis -- does all of these things and more . | 12 |
replaced | 0simple | 0 | The youngsters , their baby fluff half replaced by feathers , looked tatty and nervous . | 7 |
Thank | 0simple | 0 | `` Thank you for having been here in the summer of ' 44 . | 1 |
farmer | 0simple | 0 | A year with a dry winter can devastate crop output and put an onerous dent in a farmer 's wallet . | 17 |
builds | 0simple | 0 | `` We 're taking the Iron Man concept and bringing it closer to reality , '' said Dowling , referring to the Marvel Comics character Tony Stark , an industrialist and master engineer who builds a rocket-powered exoskeleton , turning himself into a superhero . | 34 |
praised | 1complex | 5 | President Barack Obama praised the court for its decisions . | 3 |
Marching | 0simple | 0 | Marching alongside the protesters , Allen snapped portrait after portrait that offered a view from the front lines in the days after Gray 's death . | 0 |
sorry | 0simple | 0 | `` Sometimes you just have to say you 're sorry ... my heartfelt apologies for what happened in 1961 , '' Brackett said . | 9 |
squares | 0simple | 0 | Protesters against President Mohamed Morsi filled streets and squares , yelling `` Leave , leave '' on the first anniversary of his inauguration . | 8 |
scientific | 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 . | 20 |
conflict | 1complex | 3 | `` This was in conflict with the overwhelming imagery they receive from the media about having to have long hair . '' | 4 |
account | 0simple | 0 | `` The Justice Department expects to show that the clear and intended effects of these changes would contract the electorate and result in unequal access to the participation in the political process on account of race , '' Holder , joined by federal prosecutors based in North Carolina , said during a news conference a... | 33 |
exorbitant | 1complex | 9 | He has fashioned himself as a populist who stands apart from a political class known for its exorbitant tastes and high-profile corruption scandals . | 17 |
draft | 1complex | 3 | Tom Brady has been an NFL golden boy , with movie-star looks , a supermodel wife , four Super Bowl championship rings , and a regular-guy-makes-good back story -- he went from being a sixth-round draft pick to one of the greatest quarterbacks in league history . | 35 |
robbing | 0simple | 0 | San Joaquin Valley farm groups say too much water has been allowed to escape to the ocean for nature , robbing the multibillion-dollar agriculture industry . | 20 |
disapproval | 1complex | 4 | He kept playing in defiance of his family 's disapproval , with clandestine jam sessions his only outlet until the day he was selected for a monthlong U.S. cultural program that would allow him to perform in California , New Mexico and other states he 'd heard about only in movies . | 9 |
migrants | 1complex | 3 | 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 . | 23 |
stuck | 0simple | 0 | But unlike the other whales , the 25-foot-long young adult stuck near the surface -- and it did n't dive down to feast on the blooms of krill that attract humpbacks to the bay . | 10 |
learn | 0simple | 0 | This summer , Berry is one of eight African-American students in the Chicago area enrolled in a new , rigorous program to learn how to fly and obtain a private pilot 's licenses . | 22 |
lick | 0simple | 0 | `` When nobody was looking I 'd stick my arm in up to my elbow and then lick off the chocolate . '' | 17 |
toy | 0simple | 0 | It should be no surprise then that young children play `` police and Taliban , '' chasing each other around with toy guns and weaponry designed to mimic the real thing . | 21 |
catastrophic | 0simple | 0 | Environmental and fishery groups say agriculture is manipulating the drought crisis to extract delta water , exposing even non-threatened fish and the fishing industry to catastrophic losses . | 25 |
animation | 1complex | 5 | It 's the latest salvo in a technological arms race among animation houses . | 11 |
timetable | 1complex | 4 | Holder also said his office is examining all available evidence before deciding whether to pursue charges against neighborhood watchman Zimmerman in the shooting death of the black teen -- though he gave no indication of the timetable involved . | 36 |
succeeded | 1complex | 7 | The European Space Agency -LRB- ESA -RRB- says it has succeeded in landing a spacecraft on a comet for the first time . | 10 |
interstellar | 1complex | 5 | Jupiter still shepherds swarms of asteroids , occasionally sending some whizzing harmlessly into interstellar space or on destructive collision courses with Earth and other planets . | 13 |
pitfalls | 1complex | 7 | 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 . | 34 |
beds | 0simple | 0 | When they see their beds , they think of those trapped on a mountaintop who must sleep on nothing but rocks . | 4 |
disappointing | 1complex | 3 | `` 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 . | 14 |
clouds | 0simple | 0 | CHICAGO -- On her toughest days , Selena Berry would look to the sky and imagine herself soaring high in the clouds above her troubled Englewood neighborhood and hardscrabble middle school . | 21 |
relax | 0simple | 0 | The passenger in front of her wanted to relax with some knitting . | 8 |
Nature | 0simple | 0 | CORNUCOPIA , Wis. -- On some days , Kevin Hunt stands at his Star North gas station in this eye-blink of a town on mighty Lake Superior , marveling at Mother Nature and his own dumb luck . | 31 |
become | 0simple | 0 | WASHINGTON -- In a major shift in immigration patterns over the next 50 years , Asians will have surged past Hispanics to become the largest group of immigrants heading to the United States , according to estimates in a new immigration study . | 22 |
mere | 1complex | 3 | The ball was a mere 5 feet from the hole , but when Chey Castro raised his putter for what should have been a clean shot , his hand spasmed and he missed the putt that would have won him $ 180 at the tournament . | 4 |
down-on-his-luck | 0simple | 0 | 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 . | 12 |
perched | 1complex | 4 | Ray Yurkewycz perched on the rim of the Northwest 's most restless volcano and marveled at the primordial forces at work . | 2 |
Waves | 0simple | 0 | -LRB- This dangerous cycle is illustrated in `` Waves of destruction '' in the May issue of Scientific American . -RRB- | 8 |
simulate | 1complex | 5 | The course is designed to simulate a disaster area too dangerous for humans to enter . | 5 |
formalities | 0simple | 0 | With the bathroom formalities out of the way , Evans , 25 , went into the gym to begin a workout with her EFT trainer , Jacob Ross . | 3 |
said | 0simple | 0 | At least 184 people , nearly all children , suffered eye injuries over the recent Eid al-Fitr holiday from toy weapons that fire BB pellets and rubber shot , health officials said . | 31 |
left-brained | 0simple | 0 | There is a scientific belief that the cerebral cortex is the part of the brain that `` makes us human , '' and that the two hemispheres of the cortex differentiate the creative thinkers from the logical thinkers -LRB- the `` right-brained '' from the `` left-brained '' -RRB- . | 46 |
kinds | 0simple | 0 | `` It is very difficult to push for these kinds of changes on a national level ... It has taken many , many years . '' | 9 |
dependent | 1complex | 3 | As people become more dependent on medical devices that share information , the chance increases that their codes could be scrambled , causing malfunctions . | 4 |
menu | 0simple | 0 | OXKUTZCAB , Mexico -- Wander into Cafe Rex in Oxkutzcab , Mexico , deep in the interior of the Yucatan Peninsula , and some odd things pop out on the menu . | 30 |
receiving | 1complex | 4 | Three weeks after receiving a kidney transplant from his brother , a former Ravens ' player , Chris Kemoeatu has heard all of the wisecracks . | 3 |
Castañeda | 0simple | 0 | Castañeda does n't choose participants based on grade-point average . | 0 |
worry | 0simple | 0 | Do n't worry , parents . | 2 |
orbiter | 1complex | 3 | Philae separated from the Rosetta orbiter at 3:35 a.m. EST Wednesday , after a decade of being attached to the spacecraft . | 5 |
tour | 0simple | 0 | `` These temperatures exceed what we are expecting anywhere else in the world in the tropics over the next century , '' says John Burt , a marine biologist at a branch of New York University in the Emirates , who led the reef tour in 2012 . | 44 |
beleaguered | 1complex | 9 | WASHINGTON -- The beleaguered director of the Secret Service resigned Wednesday after President Barack Obama lost confidence in her ability to lead the troubled agency amid a string of high-profile security lapses . | 3 |
valley | 0simple | 0 | `` It 's cascading down into this valley now , '' Yurkewycz said , pointing out a tongue of ice flowing over a rise and into a rubbly ravine . | 7 |
initiatives | 1complex | 3 | `` It 's growing in the last 10 years within the native communities in the United States , '' said Susen Fagrelius , coordinator of Little Earth 's community health initiatives . | 30 |
Flying | 0simple | 0 | `` Flying makes you feel big , '' Berry said . | 1 |
reports | 0simple | 0 | `` Over the last several days , we 've seen recent and accumulating reports raising questions about the performance of the agency , and the president concluded that new leadership of that agency was required , '' said Josh Earnest , the White House spokesman . | 13 |
dark | 0simple | 0 | On a sun-drenched Saturday afternoon in Silver Spring , Maryland , the dark , cavernous Fillmore theater is roaring with life . | 12 |
politics | 0simple | 0 | Twice as many Latinos will be eligible to vote next year as in 2000 , but Latinos tend to turn out at lower rates than other groups , in part because many young Latinos are n't engaged in politics . | 38 |
census | 1complex | 6 | <img class="pull-right" src="https://newsela-test-files-f331e.s3.amazonaws.com/article_media/extra/20131230_CENSUS_maps.jpg" /> WASHINGTON -- Population growth in Southern and Western states , led by Texas , California and Florida , accounted for more than 80 percent of new residents nationwide over the last thre... | 56 |
special | 0simple | 0 | And as the number of `` buddy '' or `` inclusion companion '' sporting opportunities continues to proliferate across the country , advocates for children with special needs say young people today are growing up with a better understanding and openness toward people with disabilities than the generations before them . | 26 |
astronomical | 1complex | 9 | From an astronomical observatory on Chews Ridge in the Santa Lucia Mountains , the University of California , Davis atmospheric scientist has for the last three years measured ozone , the lung-damaging gas in smog , as it arrives to California . | 2 |
agreement | 1complex | 4 | The agreement capped two years of work by a parents advocacy group started by Teri Saurer , the mother of daughters who just finished first and third grades . | 1 |
cornfields | 0simple | 0 | Surrounded by cornfields and Husker football fans , they stare at their phones and wait for news from northern Iraq , as if connected to their kin by a psychic tether . | 2 |
entire | 0simple | 0 | A closure along the entire West Coast would be a blow to the industry , which harvested nearly $ 170 million worth of Dungeness crab in 2014 . | 4 |
involved | 0simple | 0 | Their study , published May 28 in Scientific Reports , suggests the cerebellum , the brain region typically associated with movement , is involved in creativity . | 23 |
products | 0simple | 0 | There are many similar designs for sale on the Internet , but Grayson 's products , which he currently makes himself at his home , hide some unique and potentially lifesaving items . | 14 |
blown | 0simple | 0 | Farther inside the pack there are kilometers-wide chunks that have been blown together into a nearly solid mass . | 11 |
entirely | 0simple | 0 | The landing was not entirely smooth , however . | 4 |
commerce | 1complex | 8 | A number of businesses opened late or closed early , but in many parts of the city , commerce continued as usual . | 18 |
vivid | 1complex | 4 | What they found that Sunday in 1994 still fills Chauvet 's voice with wonder : an immense cave covered with prehistoric paintings of horses , mammoths and rhinos -- paintings so vivid , he says , it felt like the Stone Age artists had just moments ago put down their ochre and walked away . | 31 |
argument | 1complex | 3 | Mostly , it 's about river water allowed to reach the Pacific Ocean through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta -- a perennial California argument filled with suspicion , lawsuits and politics . | 23 |
House | 0simple | 0 | Fresh security breaches , and Pierson 's repeated stumbles during a combative House of Representatives hearing Tuesday , led to growing calls in Congress for her resignation and Obama quickly agreed . | 12 |
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