The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Mr. Gonzalez (United States of America)
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  1. diverge
    extend in a different direction
    By comparison, chimpanzees and humans diverged approximately six million years ago. Scientific American (Sep 28, 2012)
  2. undergrowth
    the brush beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
    In jungle environments dead animals are quickly dispersed by scavengers, or decay rapidly and become usurped by the thick forest undergrowth. BBC (Dec 6, 2012)
  3. claim
    assert or affirm strongly
    He said he was racing but claimed he was only doing 70 mph.
  4. equally
    in a balanced or impartial way
    Yet that equally large part of South America controlled by Spain's neighbour, Portugal, experienced a very different post-colonial fate.
  5. doubt
    the state of being unsure of something
    Neither test was considered thorough enough to resolve all the doubts.
  6. difference
    a significant change
    But there are still major differences when it comes to recreating brain like functionality in computing. Forbes (Oct 18, 2013)
  7. hence
    from that fact or reason or as a result
    Hence humans are responsible for global warming and the impact is so large that it swamps other explanations. Forbes (Oct 2, 2013)
  8. tread
    crush as if by stepping on
    A debris-strewn no man’s land lay in be­tween, trod only by wild dogs. Newsweek (Nov 5, 2012)
Created on Thu Oct 17 10:41:03 EDT 2013 (updated Tue Oct 22 20:03:54 EDT 2013)

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