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Common | 0simple | 0 | In the midst of the stirring `` Glory , '' the musical centerpiece of the Oscar-nominated movie `` Selma , '' Chicago rapper Common delivers a terse summation of how words , melody and a protest merged during the civil-rights movement . | 23 |
eliminating | 1complex | 7 | Attorney General Eric Holder said the North Carolina law imposes several `` troubling new restrictions '' on voters including reducing early voting days , eliminating same-day registration during the early-voting period and imposing a restrictive photo-identification requirement for in-person voting . | 24 |
laid | 0simple | 0 | A layer of calcium carbonate laid down each year offers a snapshot of both the fish 's yearly growth and its surrounding ocean conditions . | 5 |
reintroducing | 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 . | 7 |
biosafety | 1complex | 7 | Not only does Venter say his invention will detect and decode DNA hiding in otherworldly soil or water samples -- proving once and for all that we are not alone in the universe -- it also will beam that information back to Earth and allow scientists to reconstruct living copies in a biosafety facility . | 52 |
noise | 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 . | 1 |
meager | 1complex | 6 | His monthly wage was a meager $ 400 . | 5 |
musical | 0simple | 0 | In the midst of the stirring `` Glory , '' the musical centerpiece of the Oscar-nominated movie `` Selma , '' Chicago rapper Common delivers a terse summation of how words , melody and a protest merged during the civil-rights movement . | 11 |
hazardous | 1complex | 7 | The machines spent a good deal of time on the sidelines , leaving humans to do the most hazardous work . | 18 |
interactions | 1complex | 8 | 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 . | 25 |
smooth | 0simple | 0 | The landing was not entirely smooth , however . | 5 |
progeny | 1complex | 9 | For the next 11 months , the mothers swim off to forage for days to provide food for themselves and milk for their progeny . | 23 |
intrusions | 1complex | 11 | It also says the industry `` is not as resilient to cyber intrusions compared with the financial and retail sectors , therefore the possibility of increased cyber intrusions is likely . '' | 12 |
mishmash | 1complex | 7 | 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-... | 35 |
naming | 0simple | 0 | The Oneidas asked Goodell and Snyder to `` visit our homelands , '' and sought an amendment to league bylaws to prohibit franchises from naming a team with any term that is a racial epithet . | 24 |
militants | 1complex | 9 | WASHINGTON -- Ahmed Abdulateef 's gift for music made him a target in his hometown of Baghdad , where his father smashed his guitar and militants held a gun to his head for daring to follow a passion that has no place in their rigid brand of Islam . | 25 |
populations | 1complex | 4 | A new study on snakebite rates in Costa Rica has found that the bite rate shoots up during El Nino -- at both the hot and cold parts of the cycle -- and that the problem disproportionately affects poor , rural populations . | 41 |
half | 0simple | 0 | Results from the 2012 Program of International Student Assessment showed that U.S. teenagers were in the bottom half for financial literacy among the 18 countries that participated , ahead of France and Spain , but below Latvia , Russia and China . | 17 |
personas | 1complex | 7 | This season , Mask is taking his players ' online personas so seriously that he 's assigning an assistant to monitor their accounts . | 10 |
videos | 0simple | 0 | They created a Facebook page and posted videos to YouTube . | 7 |
low-water | 0simple | 0 | The Cannery project will feature drought-tolerant landscaping along its bike paths , and most of the front yards will be landscaped with low-water plants in place of grass . | 22 |
pieces | 0simple | 0 | Near its edges pack ice is composed of pieces loosely drifting on the water . | 8 |
dynasty | 0simple | 0 | Born in Rome on Jan. 5 , 1938 , Juan Carlos was the son of Don Juan of Bourbon and Battenberg , the heir to the throne of the Bourbon dynasty , which had been overthrown in 1931 . | 30 |
lobbying | 1complex | 8 | NEW YORK -- It has been a big year for bears in the news , especially in Maine , where voters on Nov. 4 face a question that has bedeviled other bear-heavy states : how to keep the species ' population at bay in the face of pressure from animal rights groups lobbying to ban certain hunting methods . | 52 |
effects | 0simple | 0 | The findings , described in the journal Science Advances , reveals another complexity of the effects of climate change -- both the effects it has on animal populations and the way it affects human disease , in the context of socioeconomic disparities . | 15 |
church | 0simple | 0 | The recent killings of nine black parishioners in a South Carolina church sparked a broad backlash against the Confederate battle flag , to some a symbol of Southern heritage but to others a divisive sign of slavery and racism . | 11 |
listing | 0simple | 0 | `` I was chief cook in three Thai restaurants , '' said Eduardo Dzib Vargas , listing venues on Potrero Hill , the Embarcadero district and Ghirardelli Square . | 16 |
defending | 1complex | 3 | MOSCOW -- The day after the 2014 Sochi Olympics ended with Russia atop the medals table , a beaming President Vladimir Putin presented his athletes with state awards for `` defending the honor '' of their country by showing that its `` great and glorious '' sports traditions were still strong . | 30 |
ear | 0simple | 0 | Fish ear bones , also known as otoliths , are like tree rings for the ocean . | 1 |
pans | 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... | 8 |
granted | 1complex | 3 | After all , Japan has offered zero resettlement places for refugees from Syria , according to Amnesty International , although the Japan Association for Refugees says three were granted refugee status in 2013 . | 28 |
psychic | 1complex | 8 | 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 . | 29 |
landscaped | 1complex | 5 | The Cannery project will feature drought-tolerant landscaping along its bike paths , and most of the front yards will be landscaped with low-water plants in place of grass . | 20 |
especially | 1complex | 3 | 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 . | 18 |
glancing | 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... | 45 |
acuity | 1complex | 6 | The acuity of mental illness among students has sharpened , they say , and it 's striking ever younger children , though many quietly bear the stress for years before snapping . | 1 |
seamlessly | 1complex | 5 | Taking on the challenge , a team of software and biomedical engineers , neuroscientists , surgeons and prosthetists has designed a prosthetic limb that can reproduce a full repertoire of ambulatory tricks by communicating seamlessly with Vawter 's brain . | 34 |
geologist | 1complex | 4 | CHICAGO -- Geologist Erin Argyilan has in the last 10 months studied sediment , analyzed wind patterns and mapped terrain , but she has n't solved the mystery of the holes that appear and vanish in the beige sands of Mount Baldy at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore . | 2 |
repeated | 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 . | 7 |
Corals | 0simple | 0 | Corals in the Persian Gulf reefs , however , typically tolerate temperatures as high as 36 degrees C -LRB- 97 degrees F -RRB- during summer and as low as 13 degrees C -LRB- 55 degrees F -RRB- in winter . | 0 |
busted | 0simple | 0 | `` The entire gang involved in the murder attempt ... has been busted , '' Bajwa said , adding that the `` terrorists '' were part of Tehrik-e-Taliban , an umbrella group encompassing militant organizations across the tribal areas . | 12 |
forestry | 1complex | 5 | The curriculums , taking hold as school budgets tighten and the numbers of farms in the United States decline , are rich in science and touted as stepping stones for college-bound students considering careers in everything from urban forestry to renewable natural resources and genetic engineering of crops , perhaps for... | 38 |
marveling | 1complex | 9 | 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 . | 28 |
attract | 0simple | 0 | KINGSTON , Jamaica -- The picture-perfect beaches and turquoise waters that people expect on their visits to the Caribbean are increasingly being fouled by mats of decaying seaweed that attract biting sand fleas and smell like rotten eggs . | 29 |
afflicted | 1complex | 8 | The afflicted physician , Craig Allen Spencer , was whisked into isolation , his fiancee and friends were clamped into quarantine , and his apartment was sealed and decontaminated by a biohazard crew . | 1 |
responding | 0simple | 0 | Restaurants and theme parks say they are responding to consumers who are increasingly tech-savvy and hungry for convenience . | 7 |
Due | 0simple | 0 | Due to the demonstrations , government officials said they would cancel a major annual fireworks celebration scheduled for Wednesday -- China 's equivalent of the Fourth of July . | 0 |
received | 0simple | 0 | Ryan won 236 votes Thursday , while Rep. Daniel Webster -LRB- R-Florida -RRB- , who won a following among staunch conservatives for his procedural reform agenda , received nine votes . | 27 |
airstrikes | 1complex | 6 | 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 . | 5 |
developed | 1complex | 3 | LOS ANGELES -- The type of aircraft flown by Asiana Airlines that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday has long been regarded as one of the safest passenger jets ever developed . | 32 |
greeting | 0simple | 0 | WASHINGTON -- Welcoming guests with the traditional Muslim greeting of `` asalaam alaikum , '' first lady Michelle Obama announced a U.S. pledge of $ 70 million to help educate 200,000 adolescent girls in Pakistan . | 8 |
mountain | 0simple | 0 | WASHINGTON -- Army Capt. Brian Dowling was leading his Special Forces team through a steep mountain pass in eastern Afghanistan when insurgents ambushed his patrol , leaving two of his soldiers pinned down with life-threatening wounds . | 15 |
policing | 1complex | 3 | At 22 , Mohamed is a newly minted cop on the beat , a community liaison officer making a courtesy call to a local merchant -- a time-tested neighborhood policing method . | 29 |
band | 1complex | 4 | The governor , who throughout his career has joked about his weight on television , in social media and before countless audiences , said it was his plan all along never to acknowledge publicly that he had undergone gastric band surgery , more commonly known as lap band surgery . | 39 |
central | 0simple | 0 | On some days in this isolated central Nevada town , she 'd actually sift through the hair of students found with live head lice . | 6 |
transponders | 1complex | 7 | 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 . | 34 |
carries | 0simple | 0 | Across town at the Limba Restaurant , the menu carries an assortment of dishes from Thailand , created by a chef who spent a decade in kitchens in San Francisco , where Asian food is prevalent . | 9 |
returned | 0simple | 0 | She asked to be excused from English class to go to the bathroom , but she never returned . | 17 |
wind | 0simple | 0 | CHICAGO -- Geologist Erin Argyilan has in the last 10 months studied sediment , analyzed wind patterns and mapped terrain , but she has n't solved the mystery of the holes that appear and vanish in the beige sands of Mount Baldy at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore . | 15 |
reason | 0simple | 0 | In the spring of 2010 , a lone gray whale was spotted off the Mediterranean coast of Israel , an event that sparked international interest for an important reason : It was the first North Atlantic sighting of a gray whale , a species nowadays restricted to the Pacific Ocean , in about 200 years . | 28 |
mountaintop | 1complex | 4 | When they see their beds , they think of those trapped on a mountaintop who must sleep on nothing but rocks . | 13 |
layer | 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 . | 18 |
winning | 0simple | 0 | `` Big Hero 6 '' has been a critical and commercial hit for Walt Disney Animation Studios , winning an Oscar and taking in more than $ 500 million at the box office . | 18 |
diversion | 1complex | 5 | The resulting screaming match caused an unscheduled landing in Jacksonville , Florida , the third diversion in nine days caused by passenger fights over shrinking legroom . | 15 |
shortest | 0simple | 0 | The winning robots will complete eight different tasks on a DARPA obstacle course in the shortest amount of time . | 15 |
signal | 0simple | 0 | Its clasp is also a whistle that can be used to signal for help . | 11 |
threatening | 1complex | 4 | They 're endangering shorebirds , threatening city taps and quite possibly raising the crime rate . | 5 |
officer | 0simple | 0 | Such cameras might have provided more information in the deadly August shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer in Ferguson . | 21 |
charity | 1complex | 3 | Here , when the food ended , there would be no more until another charity came by . | 14 |
demonstrators | 1complex | 8 | In late April , the then-26-year-old shot his Fuji X-T1 over and over again as demonstrators took to the streets to protest the death of Freddie Gray , who suffered a fatal injury in police custody . | 15 |
Shots | 0simple | 0 | Shots whiz by like cars on a freeway . | 0 |
mini-doll | 0simple | 0 | A Lego vet clinic with a mini-doll named Mia has five stars on Amazon . | 6 |
attributed | 1complex | 6 | `` There has been this idea that Neanderthals did not have an organized use of space , something that has always been attributed to humans , '' said lead study author Julien Riel-Salvatore , an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado-Denver . | 22 |
borderlands | 1complex | 8 | These are the sort of hard decisions that hundreds of residents who live in the harsh , mesquite-speckled borderlands have had to make on a regular basis . | 18 |
gifts | 0simple | 0 | The bags were gifts for family and friends in China , where Coach goods sell for two to three times the price in the U.S. `` It 's a smart move , '' he said of his purchases . | 3 |
heading | 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 . | 28 |
subway | 0simple | 0 | And even jaded New Yorkers were both disgusted and a little impressed by `` Pizza Rat , '' the plucky rodent in a recent viral YouTube clip seen dragging a large cheese slice down a subway stairwell . | 35 |
missteps | 1complex | 8 | In the wake of the confusion and missteps that surrounded the first U.S. Ebola diagnoses in Dallas last month , public health officials in New York were ready . | 7 |
outlawed | 1complex | 3 | Speech that creates ethnic divisions has been outlawed . | 7 |
mass | 1complex | 3 | That engagement extended far beyond what can be measured in pounds or body mass index . | 13 |
purchase | 0simple | 0 | Those who want the label contend that consumers are entitled to know whether their food contains GMOs so that they can make informed decisions about their purchase . | 26 |
neighborhoods | 0simple | 0 | But by focusing on the lack of opportunities in many of the city 's minority neighborhoods , and doing it through the lens of the city 's youth , Emanuel took on one of the top criticisms lobbed at him during the campaign : He 's a mayor who has perpetuated two Chicagos -- one for the wealthy and one for the rest . | 15 |
outpace | 1complex | 6 | The new data reinforce a trend that has seen Southern states ' growth outpace that of the Northeast and Midwest . | 13 |
computer | 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 . | 30 |
Question | 0simple | 0 | The campaign around the Maine Bear Hunting Ban Initiative , which will appear on the ballot as Question 1 , has shed light on Maine 's unique status in the wildlife world . | 17 |
main | 0simple | 0 | BUDAPEST , Hungary -- Hundreds of migrants chanted defiant slogans outside Budapest 's main international train station Wednesday as Hungarian police blocked them for a second day from seeking asylum in Germany and other wealthy European Union countries . | 13 |
prospector | 1complex | 7 | ANGELS CAMP , Calif. -- In the humble-looking notebook of a luckless prospector staying in a cabin on Jackass Hill near here in California 's Gold Country a century and a half ago , there 's an entry barely longer than a tweet . | 12 |
skyscraper | 1complex | 7 | They are not the fastest in the world -- Taiwan 's Taipei 101 skyscraper elevators race to the top of that 508-meter-tall -LRB- 1,667 feet -RRB- tower at up to about 60 kilometers per hour -LRB- 37.2 miles per hour -RRB- -- but they are still a full 25 percent faster than the express elevators in the building 's predec... | 13 |
credit | 0simple | 0 | When she opened her credit card statement , she saw a slew of charges from Apple , totaling $ 600 in one day . | 4 |
cents | 0simple | 0 | Each tooth is worth about 70 U.S. cents and its value creates a further incentive for hunters . | 7 |
election | 1complex | 3 | NEW YORK -- Lorella Praeli has one of the most important jobs on Hillary Rodham Clinton 's presidential campaign -- even though she 's never voted in an election . | 28 |
woman | 0simple | 0 | The nearly 20 girls unanimously agreed that if a woman had short , kinky hair , she was not beautiful . | 9 |
consultant | 1complex | 4 | `` There 's a shortage of workers in a number of careers , and the numbers of those jobs are staggering , '' said Harley Hepner , the Illinois State Board of Education 's chief consultant for ag education . | 35 |
act | 0simple | 0 | The act of walking may not seem like a feat of agility , balance , strength and brainpower . | 1 |
spaces | 0simple | 0 | Ongoing excavation of a collapsed rock shelter that was used by Neanderthals suggests that our extinct human relatives organized their living spaces according to tasks , researchers say . | 21 |
teachers | 0simple | 0 | Over the years , how teachers resolved potentially dangerous disruptions -- a child throwing objects , for example -- has changed from a ruler to the knuckles , to in-school suspension , to expelling a student altogether . | 5 |
divide | 0simple | 0 | CAIRO -- Hundreds of thousands of protesters swelled through villages and cities Sunday , denouncing Egypt 's Islamist president and raising fears of a new revolution that could divide the nation , threaten its young democracy and unhinge its already-troubled economy . | 28 |
cabin | 0simple | 0 | ANGELS CAMP , Calif. -- In the humble-looking notebook of a luckless prospector staying in a cabin on Jackass Hill near here in California 's Gold Country a century and a half ago , there 's an entry barely longer than a tweet . | 16 |
hollowed-out | 1complex | 5 | Few people realize , he said , that the hollowed-out crater where lava was flowing just a few years ago now holds the world 's youngest glacier . | 9 |
answer | 0simple | 0 | Then , once again , their answer was unanimous : They agreed Nyong ' o was beautiful . | 6 |
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