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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (60 Across) posit (VERB) 1. Take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom. 2. To lay down or assume as fact or basis of argument. 3. Put before. Synonyms: put forward, state, submit. 4. Put (something somewhere)
firmly; put into position; place. Synonyms: deposit, fix, situate.(NOUN) 1. In
logic, a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for
logical reasoning. Synonym: postulate. Derived from Latin: positus, pp.
of ponere to place.
Did You Know? (46 Across) A tropical cyclone is a storm
system that thrives on hot moist air. A cyclone in the Northern Hemisphere
rotates in a counterclockwise direction. In the Southern Hemisphere cyclone
rotate clockwise. In the United States we refer to cyclones as hurricanes,
generally meaning they originated over the Atlantic Ocean or the Northeast
Pacific Basin. A typhoon is a tropical cyclone originating in the western
Pacific or Indian oceans. In the Southern Hemisphere, all storms of this type
are referred to simply as cyclones. Cyclones that are not of "hurricane
strength" are called tropical storms or tropical depressions, depending on their
strength. A storm must contain minimal sustained winds of 33 meters per second
(or 74 miles per hour) to be classified as "hurricane strength". To learn more about cyclones, visit the US National Hurricane Center.
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