In 1960 the French reportedly each imbibed, on average, 116 litres of wine in a year.
rigor, rigorous
scrupulous
These results confirmed that avian species can develop preferences for palatable food through social learning.
This may be more politically palatable than lending dollars.
changed to make it more palatable to an American audience.
She’s a glutton for work.She stays late every evening.
Honey badgers are carnivores that secure most of their food through active hunting, though individuals may scavenge.
Her sudden arrival caused quite a flutter.
The flag fluttered in the wind.
the remaining petals fluttered to the ground.
pamphlet, brochure, booklet, leaflet.
This witness has committed perjury and no reliance can be placed on her evidence.
He's happy to mooch around the house all day.
Those are for potential buyers, you withered old mooch.
bile duct, bile acid.
constable.
The computer's entire circuitry was on a single board.
Sloth is the mother of poverty.
The sloth spends most of its time hanging upside down from the branches.
fatso.
braise.
There are various ways of cooking tofu such as cold, braise, stew, boil and so on.
A lovely vintage newsreel reported on the campaign.
The fallacious case for abolishing the rich.
cockney accent.
Ethologist.
sanctity.
EazyBot’s reputation is also marred by the way that it presents its solution.
While writing this review, the main website went down multiple times, while the support section remained unavailable for hours without any intimation.
The Federal Reserve sticks to its plans, despite an uncertain situation.
buy in trenches.
make the cut.
he is a reserved, almost taciturn man.
The room was alight with lamps.
the boy's face was alight with excitement.
A book by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach, two cognitive scientists, argues that humans evolved as part of a hive mind, benefiting from co-operation and community.
The brain is an immensely complex organ, which changes radically as it ages.
And if all this brainpower leaves you feeling a little deficient, know that being clever isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. 1843, our sister magazine, asked why so many bright sparks end up as miserable misfits.
You can make time or make excuses
His reaction struck me as odd.
The 2020 Halving left an indelible mark on the Bitcoin mining sector, and the 2024 Halving will no doubt similarly effect significant changes.
The current bitcoin bull market and transaction fee activity from inscriptions and ordinals have furnished the opportunity for many miners to stay viable after the block subsidy drops to 3.125 BTC.
The largest digital market asset not only experiencing a meteoric surge this quarter but also actually reaching an all-time high before the halving for the first time in history.
Such a correction would not only align with historical patterns but also serve as a reset, shaking out short-term speculative interest and setting the stage for the next cycle of growth.
This expectation hinges on several factors, including the continued influence of ETFs on the market.
Las Vegas-based miner CleanSpark has bucked the downward trend, with its share price seeing a 10% gain over the past month.
It remains to be seen if there will be a pre-halving correction in BTC prices similar to prior cycles, Flynn noted.
The word frugality used to serve that function, but by the middle of the twentieth century it seemed like a quaint notion of Depression-era grandparents.
Our bedrock is frugality, and it’s high time we made friends again with the word—and the practice.
humblebrag.
But just because conspicuous consumption is a cross-cultural and evolutionary aberration of the human species doesn’t mean that you have to fall prey to it.
Why is shopping one of our favorite national pastimes?
You have nothing to lose by asking for a discount at any store—from your local hardware store to a clothing emporium.
But I was astute enough to shut my mouth, open my wallet, and take advantage of a great bargain.
Unless you get shooed away because you are too early.
The old saying “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”
Substitution isn’t limitation. It’s liberation. It’s letting go of assumptions and habits, looking at the richness of reality, and picking from the smorgasbord of pleasures available right under your nose.
no one wants to start out his adult life with this huge burden hanging over his head.
They were paying $6 a month to insure some heirloom jewelry from Kathy’s grandmother.
Anyone who practices meditation knows that the gray matter between our ears, like a frenetic monkey, churns out a steady stream of unrelated thoughts at the rate of at least one a second.
It can cost people dearly.
He felt no qualms about borrowing money from friends.
cudgel.
mortify.
Jello.
cremate
scathing, unscathed.
The asperity of the winter had everybody yearning for spring.
The Devil tempted Adam and Eve.
I was tempted to stay and hear this superb orchestra rehearse.
The U.S. banned the last legal form of asbestos. The carcinogen is linked to more than 40,000 deaths per year in the U.S.
The budding flowers, the sprouting plants, the longer days, the warmer temperatures—these signs of rejuvenation remind us that change is afoot, and that the opportunity for growth and renewal accompanies each new season.
Ragdoll: it is best known for its docile and placid temperament and affectionate nature.
Imagine your life as a book. What title would you give to the current chapter, and what is going to be the next?
If you wince at anything, no one is watching. Apply “no shame, no blame” and keep going. Gold star.
Keeping track does wonders for quelling the urge to splurge.
The FI course for him was more like cataract surgery than simply getting a new pair of glasses.
The American Dream—on a Shoestring.
I would never condone trying to wake up at 5am if it meant cutting your sleep short by two hours.
You give me the third degree every time I leave the house.
If nothing else, Doug is a hard-nosed businessman.
misconstrue
This practice is a holdover from typographers of the Victorian era.
Without realising it, Britain has become a nation of immigrants. - Another surprise: it’s very good at assimilating people.
Relations between Japan and South Korea are blossoming.
Her contempt for foreigners was obvious.
his contempt cut her to the bone.
He was committed to prison for contempt of court.
A healthy contempt for authority.
Gasp—the room would lurch forward. He’d snap shut the lighter short of putting flame to paper.
attribute to him.
pounding the table
loner.
“The standard money advice is too meek, claiming that we all have different personal values and we need to follow our hearts.”
“There is a way to approach life so that when asked, “Your money or your life?” you say, “I’ll take both, thank you.”
extenuating circumstances
But, like most good-feeling things that we haven’t stopped to examine more closely, there are elements to this routine that are sneakily bad for us.
Even though it feels like laying motionless for as long as possible would be a restorative activity, we’re robbing ourselves of the one thing we really need before doing it all over again: recovery.
“Along with racism and sexism, our society has a hidden hierarchy based on what you do for money. That’s called jobism”
attack the president over findings on his mental acuity and memory.
These trade negotiations are much more a clash of cultures than a simple trade agreement.
And of course, it was unfair that he was sent there—on trumped up charges no less—and it would have been lonely and sad to be so far from his family.
He’s saying, look people today are going to be remarkably dumb but I can’t let them implicate me in their ugliness.
What's working for you that you'd be crazy to change? What's not working for you, and you'd be crazy not to change?"
He is inordinately proud of his wife's achievements.
fluster.
Prominent Democrats have increasingly softened their opposition to voter identification requirements in recent days, signaling a new openness to measures that activists have long vilified as an insidious method of keeping minorities from the ballot box.
Insurance companies flogged junk schemes to the poor or mentally disabled.
If this was a time of war, I would have you flogged.
We buy them cheaply and then flog them off at a profit.
Ramadan could see respite for Gaza, or widening violence.
death toll.
Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity. -- A gene mutation slows the dogs’ metabolism and makes them constantly hungry.
The landlords they bid off more than they can chew.
He finished his dessert and patted his paunch.
unceremoniously.
truant.
tilde.
contumacious.
shear stress.
But the Republicans who control the House of Representatives are dead set against any tax increases.
coalition, allegiance.
Nowruz, which means "new day", is an ancestral festivity marking the first day of spring and the renewal of nature, and it is also the beginning of the new year in the Iranian calendar.
It is celebrated on the vernal equinox, typically March 20th or 21st.
the crowd panicked and stampeded for the exit.
Once a honey badger locks on its target, it doesn't back down.
Why you should lose your temper at work. - Sometimes. And without throwing anything.
Joe Biden is exasperated by Israel but will not stop its war. - Facing mounting pressure at home and abroad, the president bets on a hostage deal.
He found his brother in a seedy, roach-infested apartment.
pervade.
ignominious, magnanimous
virile
The sanctity of marriage is once again under attack.
congenital heart disease
Autocracies are exporting autocracy to their diasporas.
Britain’s arts still dazzle the world. - But they are being diminished by a funding crisis
Typhoid fever sneaks in when sanitation fails.
Transfat
SaturedFat
repine
The farmer used a flail to separate the grain from the chaff.
Lost in grief, she felt as if she were flailing in a sea of sorrow, unable to find solid ground.
The boxer's opponent flailed desperately in an attempt to avoid the barrage of punches.
They can trace their lineage back to the 18th century.
tumbleweed.
mannequin.
I liked her way of reassuring you with a squeeze of the hand.
Jaguars are the most aquatic of all big cats.
To me, research is a relief, a potent diversion, an enticement, a passion that can make me forget everything else.
Now please don't sully the family name.
Duffel bag
duffel bag is a large cylindrical bag made of cloth with a drawstring closure at the top, typically used for carrying clothing or equipment.
a coarse woolen cloth.
It has truly leveled the playing field in terms of the ability to learn.
reciprocate
The women swoon over him.
Rabies .
The boss browbeat me into taking on all this extra work.
turbid, muddy.
slice and dice.
cordon, French Cordon.
repeal.
Pudgy Penguins are heating up the formerly icy NFT market.
What’s more, all derived child keys can also derive their own future generations of grandchild keys.
He shook his head despondently.
efficacious .
Aryan.
The overriding problem is the continuing deficit financing of the federal government.
Their overriding aim was to keep costs low.
Bumbler.
come off the sidelines.
Supersede, replace
The flimsiest of the cases is set to go first, and all face delays.
But now that you control Berkshire, add to it wonderful businesses purchased at fair prices and give up buying fair businesses at wonderful prices. In other words, abandon everything you learned from your hero, Ben Graham. It works but only when practiced at small scale.” With much back-sliding I subsequently followed his instructions.
And if there is backsliding, there will be no deal.
This is not countermarch or backslide.
Charlie never sought to take credit for his role as creator but instead let me take the bows and receive the accolades.
Even when he knew he was right, he gave me the reins, and when I blundered he never – never –reminded me of my mistake.
By the way, progress is not a straight line.
For those of you who want to remain unenlightened and mirthless, do not, under any circumstances, read this selection.
Religion's like a drug. In small doses, it's curative.
The budding flowers, the sprouting plants, the longer days, the warmer temperatures—these signs of rejuvenation remind us that change is afoot, and that the opportunity for growth and renewal accompanies each new season.
Ragdoll: it is best known for its docile and placid temperament and affectionate nature.
And if all this brainpower leaves you feeling a little deficient, know that being clever isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. 1843, our sister magazine, asked why so many bright sparks end up as miserable misfits.