Events ("What?")

World Series
series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship
 
karma
(Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
 
lining
the act of attaching an inside lining (to a garment or curtain etc.)
 
translation
the act of uniform movement
 
temperament
an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys
 
radiation
the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats
 
hiring freeze
a freeze on hiring
 
coeducation
education of men and women in the same institutions
 
Kennesaw Mountain
battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston
 
derivation
drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
 
heavy lifting
difficult work
 
tennis shot
the act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racket
 
recapitulation
(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
 
seizure
a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease
 
Renaissance
the revival of learning and culture
 
muckraking
the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures)
 
discovery
(law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
 
monopolization
domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others
 
power dive
a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine
 
frank breech
position of a fetus in which the buttocks are present at the maternal pelvic outlet
 
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