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15 July 2011 

QUOTES

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.     
-- Tennyson, Locksley Hall

Art is long and time is fleeting.
-- Longfellow,
A Psalm of Life
  

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

-- Helen Keller,

Story of My Life


What is history but a fable agreed upon?   
-- Napoleon Bonaparte, Sayings
 
Labor conquers everything.
-- Virgil,
Georgics I

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament."  
-- George Santayana, Articles and Essays

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.     
-- Socrates, quoted in Diogenes Laertius

WORD POWER 

VOCABULARY

Graduate Record Exam

 

Occident -- the West 

 

pallet -- small poor bed

 

diffidence -- shyness

 

accede-- agree

   

viscous -- sticky, gluey  

 

compliant -- yielding

 

abase -- lower, humiliate 

 

sportive -- playful  

 

promontory -- headland

 

funereal -- sad; solemn

 

biennial -- every 2 years 

   

maelstrom -- whirlpool 

 

consort -- associate with 

 

cache -- hiding place 

 

parlance -- language

 

Sources:   

www.manythings.org www.grevocabulary.org

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GEOGRAPHY

 

1. What country's holidays include Discovery Day, Natal Day and Fete Nationale?  Canada

 

2.  What continent has the most countries represented in the United Nations? Africa

 

3.  What California town was named after a major movie studio?  Paramount    

 

4.  What Boston green space, founded in 1634, was is the oldest park in America? Boston Common   

 

5.  What body of water off Britain was known by the Dutch as Noordzee? North Sea  

 
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