LARPing, which stands for Live-Action Role-Playing, means exactly that, Live-Action Role-Playing. LARPS differ in many ways but usually they consist of hanging out in a "pub" or "tavern", or just swinging fake weapons at each other all day.
> I was LARPing last weekend and I gained three levels in dorkiness!

Victoria: what do you think of studying abroad? Ian: I think it's a great idea. Studying abroad will offer you plenty of new opportunities. Are you planning on going abroad? V: yes, I hope so. I am studying for my IELTS right now. I: which country do

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auricular, adj 耳(状)的;听觉的 【例】an auricular tube [医]听诊器 【源】源自拉丁语 auricula耳 【区】particular(adj 特殊的),一起记。你们不觉得耳朵是最特殊的器官吗? 【参】aural(adj 听觉的

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This is the second in our three-part Business English Podcast lesson on a useful telephone and sales skill: cold calling. You can always make yourself more persuasive by asking well-considered questions and really listening to the answers. This princ

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In BEP 34, we talked about clarifying what was said , for example, What did you just say? I didnt catch that. In todays Business English Pod lesson, well look at clarifying what was meant, for example, What do you mean by that? or What Im trying to s

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This is the first in a two-part Business English Podcast series on clarifying. To clarify means to make clear. Today well look at phrases and skills for clarifying what was said. For example, I didnt quite catch that. Could you say that again? This i

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By David Gollust State Department 30 March 2007 The State Department says it is seeking clarification of reports Sudan has softened its opposition to new international peacekeepers for Darfur. The reported change of position by Sudanese President Oma

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Asking for Elaboration Could you elaborate (on that)? Could you tell me a little more about it? Could you give (me) some details? Could you fill me in on that? Could you expound on that? What else can you tell us (about that)? Is there anything else

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By Amberin Zaman Istanbul 13 May 2007 Demonstrators attend a rally in support of secularism in Izmir, western coastal city of Turkey, 13 May 2007 Tens of thousands of secular Turks massed in the Aegean port city of Izmir Sunday to protest Turkey's Is

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 26 May 2006 Sudanese refugee children sit in their makeshift classroom, Wednesday, April 19, 2006 in the refugee camp Kou Kou Angarana in Chad some 30 kilometers from the Sudan border The U.N. refugee agency says it is very di

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By Luis Ramirez Beijing 23 September 2006 A U.S. scholar, who just visited North Korea, says Pyongyang plans to unload more fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, which would boost its weapons capability. The move appears to be aimed at pressuri

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The United Nation's official in charge of humanitarian aid has expressed concern over Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir's remarks Monday that he wants all international aid groups out of his country within a year. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir a

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Xi Jinping has been elected the Chinese president at the country's ongoing parliamentary session. Now I announce that Xi Jinping has been elected president of the People's Republic of China. Xi Jinping has also been elected as the chairman of the cou

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One of the first public hints of improved U.S.-China relations came on April 6, 1971, when the American Ping-Pong team, in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, received a surprise invit

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By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 08 January 2007 watch Childhood Obesity report The World Health Organization reports that at least one and a half billion adults are overweight and approximately 400 million are obese. What may be even more shocking i

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 03 July 2007 Somali woman holding her child at a Dadaab refugee camp in Northern Kenya (File Photo) U.N. agencies are warning malnutrition rates in refugee camps in Kenya have reached alarming levels. The U.N. Refugee Agency, W

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By Amberin Zaman Istanbul 14 April 2007 Thousands of Turks march towards Ataturk's mausoleum for a wreath laying ceremony in support of secularism after a rally in Ankara, 14 Apr 2007 More than 200,000 Turks protested in Turkey's capital Saturday aga

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Xi Jinping visited construction workers, street cleaners, police and taxi drivers in Beijing ahead of the Spring Festival, which falls on Sunday this year. It's the holiday season. I'd like to learn what people are still at work. I know that you can'

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President Xi Jinping left this morning for state visits to three Latin American countries, as well as a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama. Xi Jinping is set to hold talks with Obama in California over major strategic issues of mutual concern.

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PARIS, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Jamaican sprinter Lerone Clarke clocked the fastest 60-meter time this season on Tuesday at the Lievin indoor meet in France. The Commonwealth Games champion, 30, timed 6.5 seconds to win the match, and finished clear of Fr

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Let's delve into today's special segment: military reform. Han Peng, President Xi Jinping was attending a meeting of national lawmakers from the military on the sidelines of the 'Two Sessions'. What can you tell us on that? President Xi Jinping has u

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acias
aeroplankton
air-gap method
akhbar
analemmata
analog/logic
Assuan
at someone's elbow
Athni
automated cargo expediting system
beator
beer-butt chicken
bominable
bottom outlet diversion
calcium antagonist
Callis-sand
cell growth control
chain reliver
chronic lithogenous cholecystitis
cissoidal curve
controversially
cryptarithmetic
dhol
direct steelmaking
direct viewing storage tube
dolaucothi
drift erratic
dtroit
erythrocarpous
ex-pan
Exchange Ratio
ferrari formula
field-mesh image orthicon
figure loom
frecking
gas-cooker
hall of the double axes (crete)
histioteuthids
illumiance
immigration restriction
immoulds
improve efficiency
Indigofera cordifolia
isomerizes
itching to do something
koelsch
l's
La Ferté-St-Aubin
large bell diameter
liftbridge
line cusp
liquid cargo
Lord Tennyson
magnetic cancellation
mean fibre length
medicagol
methyl-
michigan, lake
mill scale
mosel-saar-ruwer
neurocomputations
newloy
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non-credible contingency events
oscillating jet technique
otterdog
paint layer
Palliser, C.
peanut harvester
penicilloic acids
Pennine Range
perlocutions
pyrrhula erythaca owstoni
Qiongzhuea intermedia
radio meteorograph
Rau-sed
reciprocating spout fertilizer broadcaster
regulation of stock
remit to
reperforators
repressures
reruns
salting fish trimming
Seredisk
siles
single-vane attenuator
stalled flight
sun-care
tautomeride
teacherless
technical service group
tetrapolar species
the lot
the natural elements
tie adzing
tld
transition functions
undendrive press
unes
video scaling
woolly-worm
xoanon