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Word of the Day for Friday, June 20, 2008renascent \rih-NAS-uhnt\, adjective: Springing or rising again into being; showing renewed vigor. Their goal: to give voters in theJune presidential elections a realistic choice between the rough-and-tumble reforms of President Boris Yeltsin and the Soviet-era nostalgia of Gennadi Zyuganov, leader of the renascent Russian Communist Party. In the wings a renascent conservative movement waited to make the most of that discontent. Shuichi Kato, a renowned leftist literary critic, was staunchly against the Vietnam War and is always alert for signs of renascent militarism in Japan. Where are the new ideas upon which a renascent Toryism can build? Rabbinical students saw themselves at the center of a renascent American Judaism, pioneers of a nationwide -- no, worldwide -- Jewish faith rooted in the best of the past and vigorous with contemporary innovations. Heading the pack of institutional investors were dedicated "emerging-market funds", set up specifically to reap high returns in renascent stock and bond markets. Renascent comes from Latin renascens, present participle of renasci, "to be born again," from re-, "again" + nasci, "to be born." | |||||||||
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