McCarthy, Laboring to Adjust After the Speakership, Eyes Exiting Congress
Kevin McCarthy is still angry at his ouster and has struggled to acclimate. His colleagues expect him to retire, but he is taking his time deciding.
UNIVERSITY | On Monday, University President Peter Salovey announced the launch of a public survey of campus sexual climate for the Association of American Universities — the organization’s second nationwide survey on sexual misconduct at institutions of higher education.
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It comes despite Russian and British investigations claiming the plane was brought down after a bomb is believed to have been stored in the hold with an Isis affiliate claiming the attack in November.
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UNIVERSITY: Alumni voice opinions on campus climate
“A number of alumni have contacted me, primarily through email, expressing support for our minority students, as well as an interest in making sure that Yale is a campus where there can be a free exchange of ideas — and I think it’s important to note that many of these email messages express both sentiments,” Salovey told the News.
A 92-YEAR-OLD politician may be inured to insults, however outrageous his alleged transgression. Even so Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s president from 1988 to 2000, may...Leyla Yunus, an imprisoned human rights defender in Azerbaijan, can bear it all. Physical pain, pressure from hardened prisoners, visits from the prosecutor’s office. "Most difficult of all is you are not nearby," she writes to her husband. After 36 years of being together, the country's authoritarian president has separated them http://econ.st/1hQ3p1I
No Biographers of his Calibre spend their Time there. Stop—this is Weakness and Fear speaking; first I must be contented with myself, in Solitude, before I meet another Biographer. I must acclimate to my Life without Boswell.
Tolerance: the person becomes acclimatized, requiring increasing amounts of Internet time to get that "buzz."
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Pronunciation: /ˈklʌɪmət/
Definition of climate in English:
noun
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French climat or late Latin clima, climat-, from Greek klima 'slope, zone', from klinein 'to slope'. The term originally denoted a zone of the earth between two lines of latitude, then any region of the earth, and later, a region considered with reference to its atmospheric conditions. Compare with clime.
lay hold of
Grasp, seize on, as in He clutched at branches, shrubs, anything he could lay hold of to break his fall. [First half of 1500s] Also see get hold of.
acclimate
Pronunciation: /ˈaklɪmeɪt, əˈklʌɪmət/
verb
- Biology respond physiologically or behaviourally to a change in a single environmental factor:trees may acclimate to high CO2 levels by reducing the number of stomataCompare with acclimatize.
Derivatives
acclimation
noun
noun
Origin:
late 18th century: from French acclimater, from a- (from Latin ad 'to, at') + climat 'climate'
acclimate
- ac • cli • mate
- 発音
- ǽkləmèit, əkláimət
- acclimateの変化形
- acclimated (過去形) • acclimated (過去分詞) • acclimating (現在分詞) • acclimates (三人称単数現在)
blank (blăngk)
adj., blank·er, blank·est.- Devoid of writing, images, or marks: a blank page; a blank screen.
- Containing no information; unrecorded or erased: a blank tape; a blank diskette.
- Not completed or filled in: a blank questionnaire.
- Not having received final processing; unfinished: a blank key.
- Lacking expression; expressionless: "Although his gestures were elaborate, his face was blank" (Nathanael West). See synonyms at empty.
- Appearing or seeming to appear dazed or confused: greeted me with a blank stare.
- Devoid of thought or impression: a blank mind.
- Devoid of activity, interest, or distinctive character; empty: tried to fill the blank hours of the day.
- Absolute; complete: a blank refusal.
- An empty space or place; a void: During the exam my mind was a blank.
- An empty space on a document to be filled in.
- A document with one or more such spaces.
- A manufactured article of a standard shape or form that is ready for final processing, as by stamping or cutting: a key blank.
- A blank cartridge.
- Something worthless, such as a losing lottery ticket.
- A mark, usually a dash (-), indicating the omission of a word or of a letter or letters.
- The white circle in the center of a target; a bull's-eye.
v., blanked, blank·ing, blanks. v.tr.
- To remove, as from view; obliterate: "At times the strong glare of the sun blanked it from sight" (Richard Wright).
- To block access to: blank off a subway tunnel.
- Sports. To prevent (an opponent) from scoring.
- To punch or stamp from flat stock, especially with a die.
- To become abstracted. Often used with out: My mind blanked out for a few seconds.
- To fail to find or remember something: I blanked when asked the name of our mayor.
- To fade away: The music gradually blanked out.
[Middle English, white, having spaces to be filled in, from Old French blanc, white, of Germanic origin.]
blankly blank'ly adv.blankness blank'ness n.
hard·en (här'dn)
v., -ened, -en·ing, -ens. v.tr.
- To make hard or harder.
- To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship.
- To make unfeeling, unsympathetic, or callous: "To love love and not its meaning hardens the heart in monstrous ways" (Archibald MacLeish).
- To make sharp, as in outline.
- To protect (nuclear weapons) by surrounding with earth or concrete.
- To become hard or harder.
- To rise and become stable. Used of prices.
- To become inured.
SYNONYMS harden, acclimate, acclimatize, season, toughen. These verbs mean to make resistant to hardship, especially through continued exposure: was hardened to frontier life; is acclimated to the tropical heat; was acclimatized by long hours to overwork; became seasoned to life in prison; toughened by experience.
also
tr.v., -ured, also -ured, -ur·ing, -ur·ing, -ures, -ures.
To habituate to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection; accustom: "Though the food became no more palatable, he soon became sufficiently inured to it" (John Barth).
tr.v., -ured, also -ured, -ur·ing, -ur·ing, -ures, -ures.
To habituate to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection; accustom: "Though the food became no more palatable, he soon became sufficiently inured to it" (John Barth).
[Middle English, back-formation from enured, customary, from in ure : in, in; see in1 + ure, use (from Old French euvre, uevre, work , from Latin opera, activity associated with work).]
inurement in·ure'ment n.harden
- hard • en
[動](他)
1 〈物を〉堅くする, 固める, 硬化する；((しばしば受身))〈水を〉硬水にする.
2 ［III[名]（[副]）］〈人・心を〉非情にする, 頑固にする, かたくなにする, 〈性格・感情などを〉強固にする, ますます強化する；((受身))（…に対して）無感覚になる((to ...))
3 ［III[名]（[副]）］〈体などを〉がんじょうにする, 強健にする, 鍛える
4 〈軍事施設を〉核爆撃に備えて補強する；〈ミサイルを〉地下サイロに入れる.
━━(自)
1 〈物が〉堅くなる, 硬化する, 固まる；〈水が〉硬水になる.
2 〈心などが〉無情になる；〈顔つきなどが〉きびしくなる, こわばる.
3 〈人が〉（困難などに）慣れる, 粘り強くなる, 〈事が〉確固たるものとなる, 強固になる.
4 〈市場・物価などが〉落ち着く, 堅調になる, 高くなる, 上がる.
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Pronunciation: /həʊld/
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