美联社新闻一分钟 2005-11-08

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1. President Bush vigorously defends US interrogation practices in the war on terror and lobbies against the congressional drive to outlaw¹ torture.

2. Crews found the body of another apparent victim from a weekend tornado² in the Midwest, raising the tornado death toll³ to 22.

3. Rioting in France spreads to 300 towns while a man hurt in the violence dies of his wounds, the first fatality⁴ in eleven days of unrest.

4. International Space Station residents space walk, installing a huge camera and discarding a probe that monitors environment outside the station.

5. And magics in the air, the cast of the latest Harry⁵ Potter movie "Harry Potter and the Goblet⁶ of Fire" attend the London premiere

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. vigorous
2 vigorous
A vigorous person does things with great energy and enthusiasm. A vigorous campaign or activity is done with great energy and enthusiasm.
vigorously
The police vigorously denied that excessive force had been used.
ADV-GRADED: ADV with v

2. fatality
1 fatality fatalities⁷
A fatality is a death caused by an accident or by violence. (FORMAL)
Drunk driving fatalities in this country have declined more than 10 percent over the past 10 years.
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3. cast
1 cast casts
The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
The show is very amusing and the cast are very good.
N-COUNT-COLL The form cast is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle

4. goblet
goblet goblets⁸
A goblet is a type of cup without handles and usually with a long stem.
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