blaze, ablaze, arson, tantamount to, an assimilation, on edge, ivory bonfire

Where Education and Assimilation Collide

The strike that killed Iran's most prominent general was tantamount to an act of war—a rare overt move with profound consequences for the region

America will have to rethink its own regional position

America will have to rethink its own regional position

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Iran vows vengeance after America kills Qassem Suleimani

to put it bluntly, the election was tantamount to a stitch-up

Some 100 tons of ivory from 6,000 elephants will be set ablaze in Kenya today in a bid to shock the world into better protecting the endangered species.


Kenya to burn largest ever ivory stockpile to highlight elephants' fate
Kenyan president to light pyres in move some fear will drive further…
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By GINGER THOMPSON

A record influx of immigrants has put classrooms on the front lines of America’s battles over whether and how to assimilate the newcomers and their children.
Political party factions may also sponsor tickets in primary elections. When this occurs, a group of candidates, usually one for each office for which the party's nomination is being contested in the primary, endorse each other and may make joint appearances and share advertising with the goal of securing the party's nomination for the office each is seeking for all ticket members. This system was frequently seen in the "Solid South" era in the Southern United States when there was no effective two party system and victory in the Democratic Party primary was considered to be "tantamount to election".

Assimilation is the process by which new information is assimilated or incorporated into ones' existing neural structures.

Merkel rejects call for Turkish schools in Germany

Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected a call by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for Germany to build Turkish-language schools and universities. Merkel told reporters in Hamburg that minorities who want to live in Germany have to accept the German way
of life. Erdogan also drew criticism for using a speech in Cologne on Sunday to tell Turks in Germany that they should integrate but not assimilate. Assimilation, Erdogan said, was tantamount to a crime against humanity. Tensions between Germans and Turks have been
raised by a recent fire at an apartment building that killed nine Turkish immigrants. Some Turks fear that neo-Nazis set fire to the building. An investigation into the cause of the blaze is ongoing.


Fire Sets German-Turkish Race Relations on Edge
A house fire in Germany that took the lives of at least nine Turkish residents has the country increasingly on edge, amid speculation that the blaze was the result of racially motivated arson.
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on edge
nervous and not relaxed:縦に（して）; 興奮して［気が立って］; しきりに…したがって ((to do)).
Is something wrong? You seem a bit on edge this morning.


arson noun [U]━━ n. 【法】放火（罪）.
the crime of intentionally starting a fire in order to damage or destroy something, especially a building:
A cinema was burnt out in north London last night. Police suspect arson.

arsonist noun [C]
Police are blaming arsonists for the spate of fires in the Greenfields housing estate.




tantamount 
adjective SLIGHTLY FORMAL
tantamount to being almost the same or having the same effect as, usually something bad:
Her refusal to answer was tantamount to an admission of guilt.
assimilate 
verb [I or T]
to take in, fit into, or become similar (to):
The European Union should remain flexible enough to assimilate more countries quickly.
You shouldn't expect immigrants to assimilate into an alien culture immediately.
It's hard to assimilate (= learn and understand) so much information.
In this form vitamins can be easily assimilated by the body.

assimilation 
noun [U]
The assimilation of ethnic Germans in the US was accelerated by the two world wars.

assimilable 
adjective
A textbook needs to be assimilable (= able to be understood) to sell a lot of copies.

━━ vt. 同化する, 吸収する ((to)); 消化する; 理解する.
━━ vi. 吸収される; 同化する; 似る ((to, with)).
━━ n. 〔米〕 同化された物［人］.
as・sim・i・la・ble
　━━ a. 同化しうる.
as・sim・i・la・tion　━━ n. 消化吸収; 同化（作用）; 【音声】同化.
as・sim・i・la・tive　━━ a. 同化の, 同化力のある.
as・sim・i・la・tor　━━ n.

每日一詞 ：Assimilation |米歇爾·奧巴馬被“同化”？

為何前米歇爾·奧巴馬保持了白人的同理心，而不是與黑人種族共情？時報觀點文章作者Erin Aubry Kaplan認為 ，前第一夫人米歇爾在回憶錄《成為》(Becoming)中更多表達的是白人的立場， 她遵循了一種“同化”(assimilation)規則 ，並做出了政治選擇。

同樣作為黑人的Kaplan指出，儘管米歇爾在書中審視了黑人身份帶來的“熟悉的負擔”，但卻沒有提到，在各式阻力下，美國黑人仍贏得了的極大榮耀，更沒提及黑人群體長期累積的、對主流社會的“怨恨”。

Assimilation意為“同化” ，指接受新事實或對新情況作出反應，以符合已有認知的過程。在文化適應的語境中，assimilation可用於說明文化在發生接觸後出現的趨近性，一種文化習得或包容了另一種文化的信仰或傳統習俗。在語義學、動物體學及植物學中，assimilation有著更多元的含義。