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1:Parts of Louisiana may evacuate while Mississippi declares a state of emergency, as Hurricane Katrina appears to take aim at the region.
2:Top Sunnis in Iraq's government speak out against the country's draft constitution, a blow to last-minute efforts to win wide support.
3:The tiny Texas town of Crawford near President Bush's ranch braces for dueling protests over his Iraq policy and an anti-war mom.
4:A video from Hamas purportedly shows a bomb maker sought by Israel celebrating the Gaza pullout as a triumph for armed resistance.
5:And a simple plaque is London's first permanent memorial to the dozens killed in last month’s transit bombings in Britain's capital.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. brace
1 brace braces bracing braced
If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
He braced himself for the icy plunge into the black water.
She braced herself, as if to meet a blow.
VB
2. duel
3 duel duels duelling duelled
To duel means to fight a duel or be involved in a conflict.
We duelled for two years and Peterson made the most of it, playing us off against each other.
...two silver French duelling pistols.
V-RECIP (AM) dueling, dueled
3. purportedly
purportedly
If you say that something has purportedly been done, you mean that you think that it has been done but you cannot be sure. (FORMAL)
He was given a letter purportedly signed by the Prime Minister.
ADV: ADV with v, ADV cl/group
= supposedly
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