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1. Campaigning halts and Baghdad streets are quiet on the eve of Thursday's parliamentary election which will decide who will govern Iraq for the next four years.
2. Iran's president escalates his anti-Israeli rhetoric , calling the Holocaust a myth used by Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world.
3. John McCain and White House officials meet, but fail to reach a compromise on the Senators' proposed ban on mistreatment of foreign terror suspects.
4. British police talk to a tanker driver who may have accidentally ignited a fuel depot explosion that injured 43, damaged buildings, and sent black smoke into the air.
5. Doctors present Peru's "miracle baby" to the public six months after surgery to separate her legs fused by a congenital defect known as "mermaid syndrome".
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. escalate
escalate escalates escalating escalated
If a bad situation escalates or if someone or something escalates it, it becomes greater in size, seriousness, or intensity. (JOURNALISM)
Both unions and management fear the dispute could escalate.
The protests escalated into five days of rioting.
Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.
V-ERG
2. rhetoric
1 rhetoric
If you refer to speech or writing as rhetoric, you disapprove of it because it is intended to convince and impress people but may not be sincere or honest.
The change is largely cosmetic, a matter of acceptable political rhetoric rather than social reality.
The harsh rhetoric had so soured officials that the two sides were barely speaking.
N-UNCOUNT disapproval
3. holocaust
1 holocaust holocausts
A holocaust is an event in which there is a lot of destruction and many people are killed, especially one caused by war.
A nuclear holocaust seemed a very real possibility in the '50s.
N-VAR
4. fuse
4 fuse fuses fusing fused
When things fuse or are fused, they join together physically or chemically, usually to become one thing. You can also say that one thing fuses with another.
The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.
Conception occurs when a single sperm fuses with an egg.
Manufactured glass is made by fusing various types of sand.
Their solution was to isolate specific clones of B cells and fuse them with cancer cells.
The flakes seem to fuse together and produce ice crystals.
V-RECIP-ERG
5. congenital
1 congenital
A congenital disease or medical condition is one that a person has had from birth, but is not inherited. (MEDICAL)
When John was 17, he died of congenital heart disease.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
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