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WORD-9: Consuming Context: "His primer on statistics and scientific uncertainty is particularly timely and should be required reading before consuming any news about the [COVID] pandemic. More broadly, he argues that less media coverage of shocking but vanishingly...

WORD-1: Looting Context: "In 2007, the Getty [art museum in the US] agreed to return 40 objects to Italy, including a marble Aphrodite, in the midst of looting scandals." - Source Unknown Explanatory Paragraph: “Looting” refers to the act of stealing goods, often...

WORD-5: Reductive Context: "While warning against a reductive definition of romanticism, Berlin, for example, still heralded the need for a general characterization: '[Although] one does have a certain sympathy with Lovejoy’s despair...'" - Source Unknown Explanatory...

WORD-2: Ascertain Context: "First ascertain the facts, said the positivists, then draw your conclusions from them. . . . This is what may [be] called the common-sense view of history." - Historical Essay Explanatory Paragraph: "Ascertain" means to find out something...

WORD-9: Landfills Context: "[They would be well advised to buy] high-quality items that shed less and last longer [as this] combats both microfibre pollution and excess garments ending up in landfills." - The Guardian Explanatory Paragraph: "Landfills" are specially...