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2021-09-08 15:33:52 Religion : NPR
The Taliban's Ideology Has Surprising Roots In British-Ruled India

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/09/07/ldeoband-42-_wide-5a23446abd40d327a362deadde0acaae0d399b8f.jpg?s=600 The Taliban's ideology has a little-known historical link to India. Scholars say they might listen to a group of Muslim clerics in the Indian town where Deobandi Islam was born.

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2021-09-08 12:09:27 Word of the Day
Word of the Day: impetus

This word has appeared in 108 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

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2021-09-08 09:32:49 IELTS Energy English Podcast
IELTS Energy 1082: Flabbergasting Fashion Sample Answers for IELTS

Get your estimated IELTS Band Score. Take the IELTS Quiz at https://www.allearsenglish.com/myscore
Today we answer IELTS Speaking Part 1 questions about fashion- a topic that is not one of our favorites. Find out how to answer questions which are unfamiliar, and learn Band 9 fashion vocabulary.

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2021-09-08 09:27:53 Word of the Day
promontory

Definition: (noun) A high ridge of land or rock jutting out into a body of water; a headland.
Synonyms: foreland.
Usage: Two miles farther on we were stopped by the promontory which shelters the bay from the southerly winds.
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2021-09-08 08:41:22 egregious Open / Comment

2021-09-08 07:22:04 Idiom of the Day
make (someone's) jaw drop

To cause someone to pause in astonishment, awe, or disbelief, especially with their mouth left open. Watch the video

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2021-09-08 06:07:15 lucubrate Open / Comment

2021-09-07 15:33:21 Religion : NPR
'Into The Forest' Tells Story Of One Family's Escape From Nazi-Created Zhetel Ghetto

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/09/07/into-the-forest-cover-image_wide-ed53547716f32c660c0b6091a5ff8e6ffd7ccb82.jpg?s=600 While the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is well-documented, pockets of Jewish resistance surfaced in smaller ghettos across Nazi-occupied central-eastern Europe too. Zhetel is one such place.

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2021-09-07 12:36:36 The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Child Tax Credit: One Small Step Toward Universal Basic Income?

David Remnick talks with Senator Michael Bennet, of Colorado, who campaigned for the Presidency in 2020 advocating for the child tax credit, which is now a centerpiece of the Democratic agenda. Bennet describes why direct cash payments make such a big difference. Our economics correspondent Sheelah Kolhatkar describes the policy as a scale model of universal basic income. She moderates a conversation between two academics on different sides of the issue: Michael Strain, a senior fellow and the director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Amy Castro, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Plus, Radio Hour listeners go toe to toe in a round of The New Yorker’sName Drop, a new quiz.

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2021-09-07 12:08:44 Word of the Day
Word of the Day: deft

This word has appeared in 138 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

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