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increased | 0simple | 0 | Nudged by local governments worried about water shortages , home builders and homeowners associations are showing increased willingness to embrace the drought-tolerant landscapes that more naturally suit California . | 16 |
childhood | 0simple | 0 | Obama began focusing on the nation 's childhood -LSB- childhood obesity problem -RSB- -LRB- https://www.newsela.com/?tag=obesity -RRB- as soon as she got to the White House in 2009 . | 9 |
boom | 1complex | 4 | CASPER , Wyo. -- These are boom times in the resource-rich Cowboy State , courtesy of an oil explosion whose ripples can be felt across the land . | 6 |
irregularities | 1complex | 9 | Bach bristled when asked at a news conference about the possibility of any voting irregularities . | 14 |
integrated | 1complex | 8 | ROCK HILL , S.C. -- The convictions of nine South Carolina black men who integrated a whites-only lunch counter during the height of the civil rights movement were tossed out Wednesday during an emotional hearing before a packed courtroom . | 14 |
trained | 0simple | 0 | The president 's directive comes along with the release of a new White House review that found the so-called `` surplus '' programs of the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to be a mishmash of rules and practices , with no clear sign that all police are properly trained and certified to use the military-... | 50 |
domoic | 1complex | 5 | A massive bloom of microscopic algae -- which produced a natural toxin called domoic acid that is harmful to wildlife and fish -- in the Pacific Ocean is threatening the crab industry during a time when many fishing outfits make their most money . | 13 |
segregationist | 1complex | 9 | The men 's refusal to pay bail money into the segregationist town 's city coffers served as a catalyst for other civil disobedience . | 10 |
People | 0simple | 0 | She has authored a best-selling memoir , was featured this year on the cover of Time magazine 's `` 100 Most Influential People , '' and has starred in a viral Under Armour ad , twirling amid the reading of a rejection letter declaring she has `` the wrong body for ballet . '' | 22 |
solve | 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 . | 24 |
cases | 0simple | 0 | The noise of gunfire is almost unmistakable to most Afghans , and unlike in the U.S. , there have been no prominent cases of police officers here killing children brandishing toy Kalashnikovs or plastic pistols . | 22 |
accident | 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 . | 12 |
frequently | 1complex | 5 | And yet , few foods are discarded so frequently . | 8 |
spot | 0simple | 0 | The group vets the man-made elements seeking a permanent spot on the chart that adorns chemistry classrooms around the world . | 9 |
machines | 0simple | 0 | The world will see just how far robots have advanced in the subsequent years when the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -LRB- DARPA -RRB- hosts the final round of a robotics competition aimed at building autonomous machines that can step -- or roll -- in when disasters strike . | 37 |
donors | 0simple | 0 | In the years since the hundred days of bloodletting , in which as many as a million people were killed , the small Central African country has impressed donors and investors , though lately human rights advocates have criticized President Paul Kagame for his increasingly authoritarian approach . | 28 |
calorie-dense | 1complex | 4 | But in early 2015 , calorie-dense sardines and anchovies -- the best food -- were hard to find . | 5 |
weak | 0simple | 0 | China has many laws against pollution , Ma said , but `` enforcement is weak '' because the cost of committing violations is too low . | 14 |
junior | 1complex | 3 | Dressed in a red uniform in a Lenexa , Kansas , martial arts studio , Helen Dugan puts an opponent 73 years her junior in a choke hold , then throws him to the mat . | 23 |
exposed | 1complex | 6 | Organizers say the girls ' five-year friendship -- which spills over from the baseball field to Taylor Swift concerts , trips to the local swimming pool and other activities -- is an inspiring example of the meaningful bonds formed in programs like Buddy Baseball , in which young people with special needs are exposed t... | 53 |
squarely | 1complex | 4 | The president 's address to lawmakers and a prime-time television audience was meant to both shape his legacy and put his imprint squarely on the race to succeed him . | 22 |
battle | 0simple | 0 | Oregon and Colorado on Nov. 4 will decide the fate of labeling laws for genetically modified organisms , or GMOs , the latest fronts in a battle over packaging . | 26 |
meningoencephalitis | 1complex | 8 | Once in the brain it causes a swelling called primary meningoencephalitis . | 10 |
heels | 1complex | 4 | 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 . | 15 |
listening | 0simple | 0 | JOHANNESBURG -- Allyn Bagu lay in bed , listening to the creatures nesting under the roof of her new apartment in suburban Johannesburg . | 8 |
transportation | 1complex | 3 | `` Although tragic , commercial air transportation has had a stellar safety record -- something like 40 times safer than driving , '' he said . | 6 |
Troops | 0simple | 0 | Troops to Teachers , a nearly 20-year-old Pentagon program , has produced more than 15,000 teachers , largely for high-need schools . | 0 |
revered | 1complex | 6 | Copeland , 32 , has become one of America 's most famous female athletes , revered for her unlikely ascendance in an arts world notorious for showcasing only lithe white ballerinas . | 15 |
connected | 0simple | 0 | Another person connected to the case had said earlier that the union was `` ready to go once he -LSB- Brady -RSB- gives the go-ahead . '' | 2 |
year-old | 0simple | 0 | NEW YORK -- As the Girl Scouts ' membership continues a sharp decline , its leaders are betting on technology to reverse the trend , including a major expansion of its year-old program enabling Girl Scout cookies to be sold via mobile apps and the girls ' personalized websites . | 31 |
bars | 0simple | 0 | `` There was this big , giant tub of chocolate in the factory '' that was used in Milka candy bars , Prochnik said . | 20 |
inclusion | 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 . | 10 |
site | 0simple | 0 | The monitoring site , more than 5,000 feet above sea level on a pine-studded overlook above the lowest layer of the atmosphere , gives Faloona access to undisturbed air from across the Pacific before it is fouled by U.S. pollution sources . | 2 |
choice | 0simple | 0 | `` If I had a choice , I would n't have ever talked about it , '' Christie said on Tuesday , confirming a news report that detailed his surgery nearly three months ago . | 5 |
references | 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... | 43 |
superintendent | 1complex | 3 | 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 . | 1 |
reefs | 0simple | 0 | But the researchers came looking for something even more precious : clues that could one day help coral reefs around the world survive the onslaught of global warming . | 18 |
ozone | 1complex | 5 | 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 . | 28 |
commit | 1complex | 5 | Henderson 's choices should n't come as a surprise , according to a recent University of Texas at Dallas study that found that teens who believe they will die young are more likely to commit crimes -- and more serious ones at that . | 34 |
putting | 0simple | 0 | `` I was very good at putting up a facade , '' said the Los Altos High student , now a senior , who later was diagnosed with major depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , a diagnosis that her parents resisted for six months and that many who knew her could n't believe . | 6 |
heads | 0simple | 0 | SEATTLE -- A tiny white sliver inside the heads of fish could hold evidence of a century 's worth of humans wrecking the environment : atomic bombs , overfishing , even climate change . | 8 |
regulations | 1complex | 6 | The nutritionists are worried about three regulations . | 6 |
became | 0simple | 0 | Even as the children 's `` Bring Rodrigo Home '' campaign built momentum , it became clear that things would not move fast . | 15 |
dipping | 1complex | 4 | Still , theme-park restaurants are just dipping their toes into the water compared with other restaurants . | 6 |
Flames | 0simple | 0 | Flames engulfed the board . | 0 |
exhibition | 1complex | 7 | Now an iron ballast and a wooden pulley block retrieved from the shipwreck of the São José-Paquete de Africa are coming to Washington , where next year they will be on view in an exhibition on slavery in the new National Museum of African American History and Culture . | 34 |
escape | 1complex | 6 | `` It helps me escape . | 4 |
otherwise | 1complex | 3 | 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 . | 18 |
WKRG | 0simple | 0 | `` You would not expect a fire like that to come out of a little thing like that , '' Cade told his local TV station , WKRG . | 27 |
look | 0simple | 0 | The software , called Hyperion , simulates the physics of light , which can make animated films more lifelike or give them an otherworldly look . | 24 |
exciting | 0simple | 0 | For Scott , the most exciting finds have been a rock embedded with what appears to be part of a sea lion 's mouth -LRB- perhaps 2 million years old -RRB- and a non-fossilized 10-foot limb from a digger pine tree that would look right at home today in Central California woodlands . | 5 |
efforts | 0simple | 0 | `` Knowing that it is native should help guide restoration efforts . '' | 10 |
audiotapes | 1complex | 4 | He said a league investigation found that the league 's longest-tenured owner was in fact the person on the audiotapes that were released over the weekend . | 19 |
loan | 0simple | 0 | `` These will be part of the list of ` I 've got to see this , ' '' predicted Lonnie Bunch , the museum 's founding director , who was in South Africa for a formal announcement Monday of the long-term loan of the objects from the Iziko Museums . | 42 |
handful | 0simple | 0 | Computer-animated films are big business : In most years , a handful rank among the top 10 U.S. box-office hits . | 11 |
proposing | 1complex | 6 | Obama is also proposing a three-year , $ 263 million spending package to expand training and increase the use of body-worn cameras for monitoring police interactions with the public . | 3 |
map | 0simple | 0 | Displayed on a tablet , the app shows a map of northeastern China covered with large orange circles , each representing one of the country 's major polluters , reporting its emissions in real time . | 9 |
environmental | 1complex | 9 | The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering an environmental group 's request to set aside 110,000 square miles for grizzly bears in California , Arizona , New Mexico , Utah and Colorado . | 9 |
connections | 1complex | 4 | So , too , is a movement among Native Americans across the nation to improve their health by rediscovering ancestral foods and connections to lands once lost . | 22 |
all-time | 0simple | 0 | While illicit border crossings in this southern Arizona corridor have plummeted , deaths are at an all-time high . | 16 |
survey | 0simple | 0 | Every high school senior in Tech Connect has gone on to attend college -- a great feat , especially considering that 62 percent of adults in Cutler-Orosi do n't have a high school diploma , compared to 32 percent throughout Tulare County , according to a 2013 survey . | 47 |
tub | 0simple | 0 | `` There was this big , giant tub of chocolate in the factory '' that was used in Milka candy bars , Prochnik said . | 7 |
requested | 1complex | 7 | She worked so hard to try to give me everything , and I could never do anything for her , '' said Rocky , who requested that only his English name be used because he 's embarrassed by his poverty . | 25 |
indy | 1complex | 3 | `` If you want to learn how to run Indy cars , you do n't start at Indy . '' | 9 |
rated | 0simple | 0 | A GoldieBlox skydive action figure , also highly rated on Amazon , invites children to build a parachute pack . | 8 |
futures | 0simple | 0 | Parents , perhaps mindful of their daughters ' futures , are helping to make STEM dolls a `` burgeoning category , '' said Jackie Breyer , editor-in-chief for gift guide Toy Insider . | 8 |
District | 0simple | 0 | Before the jurors began their deliberations , District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. reminded them that they had to decide if Tsarnaev would spend the rest of his life in prison or if he should be executed by the federal government . | 7 |
bid | 1complex | 4 | 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 . | 28 |
starving | 1complex | 4 | They wound up stranded on mainland beaches in record numbers , emaciated and starving . | 13 |
activities | 0simple | 0 | Despite warnings that the demonstrations could cause serious damage to Hong Kong 's economy and reputation as a stable Asian financial hub , the city 's stock exchange seemed to take the day 's activities in stride , falling less than 2 percent . | 34 |
using | 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 . | 9 |
language | 0simple | 0 | Now a doctoral candidate in the University of Houston 's Language Arts program , she has spent much of her life thinking about the power and dangers of nuanced language . | 29 |
precisely | 1complex | 5 | Halbritter says the dictionary defines the word ` redskins ' precisely that way . | 10 |
suspected | 1complex | 3 | In a March report in Geophysical Research Letters , scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory -LRB- NRL -RRB- describe how large waves can penetrate more deeply into ice cover and break it up faster and more completely than anyone had suspected . | 41 |
problematic | 1complex | 8 | The panel also found problematic a uniform exemption for students who wore the attire of national youth organizations like the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts on meeting days . | 4 |
guise | 1complex | 8 | Cleverly crafted by a Missouri transplant who journeyed west with visions of making his fortune in the gold fields of California , the story gave Clemens the strike he was looking for , but in a guise he 'd never imagined . | 36 |
traveler | 0simple | 0 | `` The airlines have been so focused on the bottom line that they do n't realize you ca n't balance your budget on the back of passengers , '' said Alex Gerwer , a frequent business traveler from Long Beach , California . | 36 |
World | 0simple | 0 | When the observatory at One World Trade Center -LRB- 1 WTC -RRB- opens May 29 in lower Manhattan , visitors will be treated to a spectacular 360-degree view of New York City and the surrounding area from nearly 390 meters -LRB- 1,280 feet -RRB- above its bustling streets . | 5 |
determining | 1complex | 4 | <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... | 50 |
belongs | 0simple | 0 | With the Malaysian prime minister 's announcement Thursday that a wing fragment found on an Indian Ocean island belongs to the missing plane , the mystery has changed . | 18 |
soliciting | 1complex | 6 | The Special Operations Command began soliciting ideas for the suit this year from industry , academia and government labs , and has held two conferences where potential bidders , including Dowling 's company , Revision Military , demonstrated their products . | 5 |
fit | 0simple | 0 | 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 . | 15 |
round | 0simple | 0 | The world will see just how far robots have advanced in the subsequent years when the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -LRB- DARPA -RRB- hosts the final round of a robotics competition aimed at building autonomous machines that can step -- or roll -- in when disasters strike . | 28 |
requires | 1complex | 4 | The current rule requires half the grain servings to be rich in whole grains . | 3 |
lung | 0simple | 0 | He and other scientists at rural , high-altitude sites across the western U.S. have been documenting rising levels of ozone , which can trigger asthma attacks , worsen heart and lung disease and lead to premature deaths , even as emissions have plummeted nationwide over the last few decades . | 30 |
slavery | 1complex | 5 | 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 . | 27 |
link | 0simple | 0 | Having to pay to play school sports may have long-reaching health effects , according to a newly released University of Michigan survey that may reinforce a link between income and health . | 26 |
occupying | 1complex | 6 | Extending their protests into the workweek , Hong Kong democracy activists continued occupying major thoroughfares Monday , forcing the closure of some schools , banks and other businesses in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory . | 12 |
short | 0simple | 0 | The nearly 20 girls unanimously agreed that if a woman had short , kinky hair , she was not beautiful . | 11 |
recharging | 1complex | 6 | 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 . | 6 |
probably | 0simple | 0 | If you think it can be done , then it can probably be done . '' | 11 |
turned | 0simple | 0 | COLORADO SPRINGS , Colo. -- In an unprecedented backlash , two state lawmakers who helped stiffen Colorado 's gun laws were ousted Tuesday in a recall that turned into a nationally watched referendum on gun control . | 27 |
aging | 0simple | 0 | Non-governmental organizations , nursing homes and provincial governments increasingly are picking up the slack , said Robert Stowe England , an expert on population aging who 's the author of the 2005 book `` Aging China . '' | 24 |
room | 0simple | 0 | `` I always had a little cabinet of curiosities in my room , and in the garage , '' Borders recalls . | 11 |
push | 0simple | 0 | `` It is very difficult to push for these kinds of changes on a national level ... It has taken many , many years . '' | 6 |
drives | 0simple | 0 | `` The people that guessed 90 , 70 , 120 , they 've already lost , '' says Stephen Kendrot as he drives along a Wicomico County , Md. , back road . | 22 |
slogged | 1complex | 5 | Not many of the 150,000 Allied soldiers who slogged onto storm-torn beaches or parachuted into Normandy remain alive to pass on the legacy of that `` longest day . '' | 8 |
21-st | 0simple | 0 | Vawter 's prosthetic is a marvel of 21-st century engineering . | 7 |
Hunting | 0simple | 0 | The Humane Society supports the coalition backing the initiative , which is led by a group called Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting . | 21 |
ammonite | 1complex | 9 | How about a Lottie astronomer doll complete with a telescope , tripod and fact sheet about notable women stargazers , or a fossil hunter armed with a magnifying glass , geology hammer and ammonite fossils ? | 33 |
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