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Daily Words Challenge:  Day-2 Aorta Aorta  is a big artery — it’s the biggest one you’ve got. You have the  aorta  to thank for circulating oxygen-rich blood throughout your body. The aorta is sometimes called a trunk artery. It begins at the left ventricle of your heart and runs down your abdomen, with other smaller arteries branching off throughout your body. So it sort of looks like the trunk of a tree that supports other branches. The heart pumps the blood flowing through the aorta, which is sent throughout the body. The aorta does all this work even though it’s only about a foot long and an inch in diameter. Plunge A plunge is a noun and a verb related to diving, falling, and sinking. A "polar bear  plunge " is when people  plunge  into freezing cold water for charity or, inexplicably, for fun. Fig. Polar plunge                  ...
Daily Words Challenge:  Day-1  Tabloid A  tabloid  is a newspaper, especially one that's smaller than a traditional daily paper and focuses on sensational news items. IF you are lucky, you will read juicy tabloid headlines as you pass through news corner. A tabloid is more likely to print celebrity gossip or crime stories with large photographs than news about international issues or the economy, especially on the front page. Tabloids aren't taken entirely seriously as journalism, although they are very popular and tend to sell well. The word  tabloid  originally meant "small tablet of medicine" in the 1880's. By 1900, it also meant "a compressed form of anything," including journalism. Plebeian In Roman times, the lower class of people was the  plebeian  class. Today, if something is  plebeian , it is of the common people.   She loves adventurous life and that’s why, rejected him because...