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1. Authorities search flooded and mud-caked communities for victims of storms spawned by Hurricane Stan that left a trail of destruction and killed 82 people across Central America.
2. New Chief Justice John Roberts stepped forward as an aggressive defender of federal authority to block doctor-assisted suicide, as the Supreme Court clashed over an Oregon law that lets doctors help terminally ill patients end their lives.
3. A bomb exploded at the entrance of a Shiite Muslim mosque south of Baghdad as hundreds of worshippers gathered for prayers on the first day of Ramadan and for the funeral of a man killed in an earlier bombing. At least 25 people were killed and 87 wounded.
4. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said "good progress" was being made with Iran on its disputed nuclear program. Iran reiterated on Tuesday that it was ready to reopen talks with Europeans over its nuclear program.
5. Two Americans and a French scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday for developing a chemical "dance" that makes molecules swap atoms, a process now used to create medicines, plastics and other products with more efficiency and less environmental hazard.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. caked
caked
If something is caked with mud, blood, or dirt, it is covered with a thick dry layer of it.
Her shoes were caked with mud.
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ with/in n
= encrusted
+ caked
Also a combining form.
...blood-caked bandages.
...herds of mud-caked cattle and sheep.
COMB in ADJ: usu ADJ n
= encrusted
2. spawn
3 spawn spawns spawning spawned
If something spawns something else, it causes it to happen or to be created. (LITERARY)
Tyndall's inspired work spawned a whole new branch of science.
He wrote 54 crime novels, which spawned both movies and television shows.
VB
3. clash
1 clash clashes clashing clashed
When people clash, they fight, argue, or disagree with each other. (JOURNALISM)
A group of 400 demonstrators ripped down the state Parliament's front gate and clashed with police.
Behind the scenes, Parsons clashed with almost everyone on the show.
The United States and Israel clashed over demands for a UN investigation into the killings.
V-RECIP
+ clash clashes
Also a noun.
There have been a number of clashes between police in riot gear and demonstrators.
N-COUNT: oft N between/with n
4. terminal
1 terminal
A terminal illness or disease causes death, often slowly, and cannot be cured.
...terminal cancer.
...his illness was terminal.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
terminally
The patient is terminally ill.
ADV: ADV adj
5. Ramadan
Ramadan
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim year, when Muslims do not eat between the rising and setting of the sun. During Ramadan, Muslims celebrate the fact that it was in this month that God first revealed the words of the Quran to Mohammed.
N-UNCOUNT
6. reiterate
reiterate reiterates reiterating reiterated
If you reiterate something, you say it again, usually in order to emphasize it. (FORMAL or JOURNALISM)
He reiterated his opposition to the creation of a central bank.
I want to reiterate that our conventional weapons are superior.
VB
= repeat
reiteration reiterations
It was really a reiteration of the same old entrenched positions.
N-VAR: oft N of n
= repetition
7. swap
1 swap swaps swapping swapped
If you swap something with someone, you give it to them and receive a different thing in exchange.
Next week they will swap places and will repeat the switch weekly.
I'd gladly swap places with mummy any day.
I know a sculptor who swaps her pieces for drawings by a well-known artist.
Some hostages were swapped for convicted prisoners.
V-RECIP also swop.
= exchange
+ swap swaps
Also a noun.
If she ever fancies a job swap, I could be interested.
N-COUNT: oft n N also swop.
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