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Friday, September 9, 2011

#9. August vs raucous

On 9/8/11, Howard Finneman (Huffington Post) in his comments on Pres. Obama's 'jobs' speech wrote,

"Addresses to joint sessions of Congress are supposed to be august, stately and somber affairs, but the president turned it into a raucous and lively mixture of a campaign stump speech and a college-style debate on the floor of the British House of Commons."

Are these words appropriate in this context?



August: majestic; eminent
Raucous: harsh; strident
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