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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