Daily Reads-33 (Level-2)

Reading Suggestion-1

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

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Five Words to learn from this article:

Palaeolithic: Prehistoric period when stone tools were made by humans.
Treatise: A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.
Colorant: A dye, pigment, or other substance that colours something.
Lacquer: A liquid made of shellac dissolved in alcohol, or of synthetic substances, that dries to form a hard protective coating for wood, metal, etc.
Maceration: Winemaking process where the phenolic materials of the grape.

Reading Suggestion-2

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

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Five Words to learn from this article:

Electorate:All the people in a country or area who are entitled to vote in an election.
Fortuitous:Happening by chance rather than intention.
Demolish: Pull or knock down (a building).
Pantomime: A theatrical entertainment, mainly for children, which involves music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy and is based on a fairy tale or nursery story, usually produced around christmas.
Eruption: An act or instance of erupting.

Reading Suggestion-3

Article Name: Intelligence: a history
Author Name: Stephen Cave
Source: Aeon
Category:Philosophy

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Five Words to learn from this article:

Loom: Appear as a vague form, especially one that is large or threatening.
Usher: Show or guide (someone) somewhere.
Colonize: Send settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it.
Enslave: Make (someone) a slave.
Meritocracy: Government or the holding of power by people selected according to merit.