Word of the Week # 10

1) Forager

2) USA Today (4.4-million-year-old Fossil Could Reshape Human Origins)

3) Rather, research suggests that their common ancestor was a walking forest forager more cooperative in nature than the competitive, aggressive chimp.

4) The act of looking for food or provisions

5) The soldiers foraged through the country side as their supplies continued to deplete.

Word of the Week # 9

1) Aghast

2) San Jose Mercury News ( Ambulance denied access to player)

3) "I'm aghast at the decision that was made," said Matthew Dean, a Campbell Union High School board member.

4) Stuck with overwhelming shock or amazement; filled with sudden fright or horror: they stood aghast at the sight of the plane crashing

5) I was a aghast with what happen in the City of Santa Clara.

Word of the Week # 8

1) Lucrative

2) The Wall Street Journal ( Bond market defies fed as rates rise.

3) The Fed has only begun to put its plan in motion, and many investors are simply cashing out of lucrative bond-market bets they placed in the long prelude to the Fed's announcement of its purchasing program.

4) Profitable: moneymaking:

5) Eric had a very lucrative business

Word of the Week # 7

1) Levied

2) The Wall Street Journal ( Iran plans war games to show air defenses)

3) The United Nations and individual countries have levied sanctions against Iran to pressure it to bow demands that it subject its program to international inspections and controls.

4) An imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force. 2. the amount owed or collected

5) The United States levied against three other countries

Word of the Week # 6

1) Hypoglycemic

2) USA TODAY ( Hospital care fatal for some patients)

3) Two other medication related deaths involved inadequate insulin management resulting in hypoglycemic coma and respiratory failure resulting from over sedation.

4) An abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.

5) The Student was sick because he had hypoglycemic.

Word of the Week # 5

1) Conglomerates

2) The New York Times (Video Game Sui: Image Rights vs. Free Speech)

3) But to the media conglomerates, athletes, actors, First Amendment advocates and others who have recently weighted in on the case, Keller's lawsuit is about much more than video games.

4) 1.anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements. 2. a corporation consisting of a number of subsidiary companies or divisions in a variety of unrelated industries, usually as a result of merger or acquisition.

5) The football team conglomerated before the game.

Word of the Week # 4

1) Consortium
2) San Jose Mercury News (November 3, 2010) In Democrat's defeat, Obama Faces reality of need to share power

3) The election was seen as a referendum on Obama and the Democratic agenda, according to interviews with voters that were conducted for the National Election Pool, a consortium of TV networks and The Associated Press, with a wide majority of the electorate saying that the country was seriously off track.

4) Noun- A combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc, for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital. 2 Any association, partnership, or union

5) My brother and I had a consortium with the family business