The prefix para- is versatile, meaning “beside,” “closely related,” or “closely resembling”; “accessory” or “subsidiary”; “beyond”; or “abnormal” or “faulty.”  The commonality is that a word beginning with para- pertains to the relationship or resemblance of something to something else.  Mark Nichol  Find a list of words starting with para from 1. parable (“throw beside”):  a story illustrating a moral or religious principle to 40. paratrooper (“against soldier,” on the model of parachute):  a soldier specializing in parachuting from an aircraft at https://www.dailywritingtips.com/40-words-beginning-with-para/

“Hell hath no fury like the media scorned . . . The media can love you one day and bury you the next.”  “The rules of voir dire are designed to remove bias and deception from the jury.  The term itself comes from the French phrase “to speak the truth.”  “Sometimes the messenger can obscure the message.”  “ . . . the guiltier you were, the more lawyers you needed.”  “Back when I was riding patrol, you know what we called a killing that came down to simple street justice . . . the brass verdict.”  The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly 

The Brass Verdict is the 19th novel by American author Michael Connelly and features the second appearance of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael "Mickey" Haller.  Connelly introduced Haller in his bestselling 2005 novel The Lincoln Lawyer.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brass_Verdict 

The frappé, as the Greeks make it, is a pretty simple recipe.  In a cocktail shaker or mixer you add one or two teaspoons of instant coffee granules, sugar to taste and a little water.  Using a shaker helps you get the characteristic frothy layer at the top of the coffee.  This can be served with or without milk.  The version that is now popular in coffee shops all over is made using a blender.  You typically dump ice cubes, milk, sugar, strong coffee, a little water, flavourings or syrups of your choice (even alcohol!) in the blender, give it a good whirl and pour it into a tall glass.  Top it with whatever your heart desires--whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, melted chocolate--you cannot go wrong here.  A popular coffee website lists upwards of thirty different frappé recipes.  In the Boston area of New England, where this drink originated, frappe is a thick milkshake made with ice cream.  The Frappuccino, a drink made by combining milkshake with coffee, was developed, trademarked and sold by The Coffee Connection, an eastern Massachusetts coffee shop, originating in New England.  When Starbucks bought The Coffee Connection in 1994 they also got the rights to make, sell and market the drink as Frappuccino.  They slightly altered the recipe, introduced it under the Starbucks banner and it remains a very popular drink on their menu to this day.  The recipe itself is a blend of a few different cold drinks such as iced coffee, milkshake, Italian cappuccino and other flavouring and syrups.  Starbucks also sells bottled versions of their Frappuccino in grocery stores and vending machines.  So you see, Frappe vs Frappuccino, they are not related, at all!  posted by Demri  https://www.littlecoffeeplace.com/what-is-a-frappe

 nut out   phrasal verb nut something out  ​(Australian English, New Zealand English, informal) to calculate something or find the answer to something  I'm going to have to nut it out on a piece of paper.  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/nut-out 

suss out  1.  determine, discover, or come to understand something.  A noun or pronoun can be used between "suss" and "out." I spent the entire class trying to suss out the meaning of the poem, but I just couldn't get it. 2.  To observe and form an opinion about or estimation of someone or something.  A noun or pronoun can be used between "suss" and "out." I strolled around the arena sussing out the competition.

suss someone out  slang .  to try to figure someone out.  I can't seem to suss Tom out.  https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/suss+it+out 

In early 1777, George Washington ordered all Continental soldiers to undergo inoculation, followed by a period of strict isolation.  Within a year, smallpox had all but disappeared from his camp, saving the army and probably the Revolution.  Twenty years later, as the new United States struggled to survive in what remained a British-dominated world, the English physician Edward Jenner showed that vaccinia, which caused a harmless case of cowpox, also protected people against smallpox (hence, vaccination).  Even though his method was far safer than inoculation, many accused Jenner of treating people like livestock; in 1802, one cartoonist imagined cow parts growing out of the arms and faces of the vaccinated.  But Jenner found an unusual ally in the man who succeeded Washington and Adams as U.S. President: Thomas Jefferson.  Jefferson’s successor as president, James Madison, was a true believer in the limited powers that the U.S. Constitution—of which he was a principal author—granted the president, even in times of war.  Of course, the constitution did not specify a public health role for the federal government, either.  In the early months of the war, however, Congress passed a bill to create a National Vaccine Institute, which would send vaccinia free of charge across the vast new country.  As the physician in charge of the institute argued, “every citizen should have the right secured to him of a free access” to this lifesaving material.  For Madison, this was not a constitutional issue but rather a common sense measure on behalf of what the constitution called the “general welfare,” a good deed that no good government could fail to do.  Read more and see graphics at https://theconversation.com/the-u-s-founding-fathers-would-want-us-to-get-the-covid-19-vaccine-152932 

We often hear the saying about “our glasses being half full” or “half empty.”  When people say that their glass is half full they are portraying optimism, and the latter, a half empty glass, portrays pessimism.  

I once heard a different way to quote the metaphor about a full glass, and the quote was “The glass is neither half full, nor is it half empty; it is just refillable.”  The reason I love this quote so much is because it is saying that people cannot look at situations positively or negatively all the time because life is all about balance.  Christina Donati  https://www.readunwritten.com/2018/02/12/why-glass-half-full-half-empty/ 

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded on September 14, 1960. 

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