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Minority Student Day: Connecting a Generation to Their Future

Minority Student Day: Connecting a Generation to Their Future

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Freeman Leads Georgetown Past Cincinnati

Georgetown played its last home game at the Verizon Center, Sat. March 7, defeating...

SHIELDS UPSETS LANGE IN VIRGINIA!

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Ballou Boys and H.D. Woodson Girls Capture DCIAA Basketball Championships

Parents, friends and basketball players came out to Coolidge Senior High School in...

Metro Area Follows Speed Skater Shani Davis’ Olympic Win, Live

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The Wizards/Mavericks Trade

CAPTION Fan favorite Caron Butler was traded to Dallas. Photo by John De Freitas...

Black Swim Meet Makes Splash!

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Wizards Lose to Clippers, 92-78

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Oscar-Worthy!

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All Nations Baptist Church Hosts Annual Spelling Bee

Lyndia Grant The All Nations Baptist Church in Northeast hosted its Second...

The Disciple’s Prayer

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Word of the Week
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
28th Annual Washington Informer Spelling Bee

Students across the District are preparing to compete in the 28th Annual Washington Informer Spelling Bee in March.
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pro-cliv-i-ty

Pronunciation [proh-kliv-i-tee] –noun, plural -ties. natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.

Use in a sentence: Nigel has demonstrated a proclivity for entrepreneurship as a youth, so few were surprised when he opened his own business.

Origin: 1585–95; < L prōclīvitās tendency, lit., a steep descent, steepness, equiv. to prōclīv(is) sloping forward, steep (prō- pro- 1 + clīv(us) slope + -is adj. suffix) + -itās -ity


indelible -

in-del-uh-buhl – adjective- mpossible to remove, erase, or wash away; permanent: indelible ink. 2. Making a mark not easily erased or washed away: an indelible pen for labeling clothing. 3. Unable to be forgotten; memorable: an indelible memory.




oblige -

[uh-blahyj] - [no alternate pronunciation(s)] - a verb; constrain (as another or oneself) by physical, moral, or legal force :put under binding agreement to do or to forbear from doing something.

Use in a sentence: The new rules oblige students to wear prescribed uniforms to school. Ramon plans to protest the new rules that oblige him to take out the trash.

[Middle English obligen, from Old French obligier, from Latin obligāre : ob-, to; see ob- + ligāre, to bind; see leig- in Indo-European roots.]



quarantine \ kwawr-uh n-teen \ - a noun; a regulation restraining a ship from physical connections with the shore while suspected of offering a threat of contagion.

Use in a sentence: If it were it not for the quarantine, the port city might have experienced an outbreak of a deadly strain of influenza. The passengers recounted the harrowing days of the cruise ship’s subjection to quarantine, when they were forced to watch a hairy chest contest while listening to a calypso band under the tropical sun.

Origin: 1600–10; <It quarantina, var. of quarantena, orig. Upper Italy (Venetian): period of forty days, group of forty; derivative of quaranta forty> ≪ L quadraginta>
 

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