ROCKVILLE, Md. — My sister told me not to gloat. But Democrats are eating a giant helping of crow since voters delivered a stunning victory to Donald Trump after spending months — years, really — claiming he was a racist, a wannabe dictator, Adolf Hitler and a threat to democracy.
When he was given the chance to pose a question to Mr. Lee, Mr. Zhang mentioned his colleague’s singular success working in both the Asian and American markets and asked, rather intently, “How do you make the world understand you?”
Private
tuition has long been popular with the rich. A gaggle of London-based
firms hire new graduates from Oxford and Cambridge who charge £70-£100
an hour to prepare children for independent-school entrance exams taken
at 11 or 13. Yet thanks to ambitious parents and government policies,
many more children from lower-income families are being tutored
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Eating crow is a colloquial idiom, used in some English-speaking countries, that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong ..
singular
ADJECTIVE
1Grammar (Of a word or form) denoting or referring to just one person or thing:the third person singular form of the verb
1.1Single; unique:she always thought of herself as singular, as his only daughter
2Exceptionally good or great; remarkable:he had the singular good fortune not to die in the trenches
2.1Strange or eccentric in some respect:no explanation accompanied this rather singular statement
3Mathematics (Of a square matrix) having a zero determinant.
4Physics &
Mathematics Relating to or of the nature of singularity.
NOUN
Grammar
1A singular word or form.
1.1(
the singular)
The singular number:a word in the singular
Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'solitary, single', also 'beyond the average'): from Old French
singuler, from Latin
singularis, from
singulus (see single).
crow
VERB (past crowed or crew /kruː/)
[NO OBJECT]
1(Of a cock) utter its characteristic loud cry:she was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowingROCKVILLE, Md. — My sister told me not to gloat. But Democrats are eating a giant helping of crow since voters delivered a stunning victory to Donald Trump after spending months — years, really — claiming he was a racist, a wannabe dictator, Adolf Hitler and a threat to democracy.
2(Of a person) express great pride or triumph, especially in a tone of gloating satisfaction:Ruby crowed with delightavoid crowing about your success[WITH DIRECT SPEECH]: ‘I knew you ’d be back,' she crowed
skulk (skulk)
verb intr.
1. To hide, evade, or move stealthily.
noun
1. Someone who lies in hiding, evades, or lurks.
2. A pack of foxes.
Etymology
From Middle English skulken, of Scandinavian origin
Usage
"Heaven's Acre Wildlife Center has a gaggle of geese, a skulk of foxes, an over-abundance of raccoons and a singular problem - it violates city zoning." — Gary Gerhardt; Wildlife Rehab Center Runs Into the Teeth of Arvada's Zoning Rules; Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado); Aug 6, 1998.
gaggle
(găg'əl)
n.
- A flock of geese. See synonyms at flock1.
- A cluster or group: "A gaggle of photographers huddled on the sidewalk beside a swelling crowd of onlookers" (Gioia Diliberto).
[Middle English gagel, from gagelen, to cackle, probably of imitative origin.]
tuition
Syllabification: (tu·i·tion)
Pronunciation:
/t(y)o͞oˈiSHən/
noun
North American a sum of money charged for teaching or instruction by a school, college, or university:I’m not paying next year’s tuition
teaching or instruction, especially of individual pupils or small groups:private tuition in French
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense 'custody, care'): via Old French from Latin tuitio(n-), from tueri 'to watch, guard'. Current senses date from the late 16th century
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