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| Syrian rebel leadership is split Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:59:35 EST Rival dissident army officers are claiming to lead the increasingly armed rebellion within Syria, exposing rifts within the opposition. |
| U.S. working 'at every level' to resolve NGO dispute with Egypt Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:38:52 EST U.S. aid to Egypt could suffer if Egypt persists in prosecuting 43 people, including 19 Americans, in a crackdown on nongovernmental organizations, White House and State Department officials said Monday. |
| World seeks next step on Syria as deaths mount Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:31:27 EST Intense blasts that echoed through the Syrian city of Homs on Monday were just a part of the latest violence ravaging parts of the country, as world leaders sought a new strategy to end the deadly fighting. |
| Bold, exhilarating stands for freedom inside Syria Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:04:38 EST Abu Marwan jumps into the back of the small white van. He and his friend, Abu Omar, are heading to a grass-roots demonstration in the Syrian capital to protest the government of President Bashar al-Assad. |
| United States orders new Iran sanctions Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:43:00 EST The United States has moved to freeze assets of Iran's government and financial institutions, saying they had engaged in "deceptive practices," President Barack Obama's administration announced Monday. |
| Officials: Netanyahu to head to United States next month Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:28:09 EST Israel's prime minister will visit the United States in March, officials said Sunday. |
| Palestinian factions Hamas, Fatah reach unity deal Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:06:30 EST Rival Palestinian political factions Fatah and Hamas named President Mahmoud Abbas the head of an interim unity government during a televised signing ceremony Monday. |
| Film director shares sights and sounds of Beirut's 'Little Armenia' Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:01:18 EST Film director Nigol Bezjian was born in Syria, raised in Lebanon and studied in the United States, but nowhere does he feel more at home than in Little Armenia. |
| Saudi woman files suit over right to drive Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:21:13 EST A leader of a high-profile campaign pushing for women to drive in Saudi Arabia says she's suing traffic police in order to get a driver's license. |
| Rockets, mortars rain down on Syrian city, opposition says Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:49:28 EST As international leaders wrestled over the weekend how to deal with the crisis in Syria, much of the nation remained engulfed in violence -- including attacks by government forces on one embattled city that the opposition Syrian National Council described as a "massacre." |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 06, 2012 is:
propinquity • \pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\ • noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity
Examples:
Many of the retirement community's residents cite the propinquity of the area's various cultural offerings as a significant reason for their choice of the facility.
"Canada was faced with the overwhelming propinquity of the United States; it was just next door -- for almost nine thousand kilometres." -- From Derek Lundy's 2011 book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Did you know?
"Propinquity" and its cousin "proximity" are related through the Latin root "prope," which means "near." That root gave rise to "proximus" (the parent of "proximity") and "propinquus" (an ancestor of "propinquity"). "Proximus" is the superlative of "prope" and thus means "nearest," whereas "propinquus" simply means "near" or "akin," but in English "propinquity" conveys a stronger sense of closeness than "proximity." (The latter usually suggests a sense of being in the vicinity of something.) The distinctions between the two words are subtle, however, and they are often used interchangeably. "Propinquity" is believed to be the older of the two words, first appearing in English in the 14th century; "proximity" followed a century later.