Daily Reads-29 (Level-2)

Reading Suggestion-1

Article Name: The Red Painters
Author Name: Michel Pastoureau
Source: The Paris Review
Category: Art,Culture and Literature

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Five Words to learn from this article:

Subtle: Fine.
Parchment: A stiff, flat, thin material made from the prepared skin of an animal, usually a sheep or goat, and used as a durable writing surface in ancient and medieval times.
Allegorical: Symbolic.
Enormous: Huge.
Meticulous: Detailed.

Reading Suggestion-2

Article Name : Love is like cocaine
Author Name: Hellen Fisher
Source: Power
Category: Biology

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Five Words to learn from this article :

Ecstasy: feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.
Besotted: Infatuated.
Distort: Twist.
Binge: A period of excessive indulgence in an activity.
Dissection: Detailed analysis.
Limerence: A state of mind which results from a romantic attraction to another person and typically includes obsessive thoughts and fantasies and a desire to form or maintain a relationship with the object of love and have one’s feelings reciprocated.

Reading Suggestion-3

Article Name : How to save capitalism from itself
Author Name: Paul Collier
Source: The Times Literary Supplement (TLS)
Category: Economics

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Five Words to learn from this article :

Capitalism: An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Anticipated : Expect.
Fortuitous: Unexpected.
Socialism: A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Upsurge: An increase.