Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Word of the Week #2

MORATORIUM

I read an article on Yahoo! News titled, ”U.S., Europe in Mideast peace push before U.N. showdown” where the word moratorium was used.

“Abbas broke off those U.S. .-sponsored negotiations soon after they began last September, after Netanyahu refused to extend a 10-month partial moratorium on Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank, land Israel occupied in a 1967 war and which Palestinians seek as part of a future state.”

mor·a·to·ri·um noun a suspension of activity

The director decided to call for a moratorium of the production because of the lead actor’s illness.

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