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This root, or closely related ones, such as * ghol , yield a whole slough of modern English words via various Proto-Germanic and related IE roots: yellow, gild, gall (a yellowish substance), choler, cholera, melancholy black bile, and chlorine , all via Greek kholé yellow bile and Greek chlidé luxury and Proto-Germanic * ghhleid and * glazem: gleam, glint, glimmer, glisten, glass, glaze, gloss, glance, glade, glee, glow, gloaming, glide , and glissade --quite a haul from what is basically a single root!
Gawande tries to gloss over his discomfort--everyone's discomfort--with the cruelty and injustice of abortion by comparing it to other unpleasant surgical procedures.
As exposure to each compound has a different risk, we standardized the exposure by multiplying the estimated average annual concentration of each compound by its Unit Risk Estimate (URE) as shown in Equation 1. The URE is the lifetime risk of excess cancer cases predicted to come from continuous exposure to a compound at a concentration of 1 μg/m 3in the air (for more information see definition on the NATA website, http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/nata/gloss1.html.
Both Boswell and Johnson wrote readable and lucid prose, and scholars who gloss their texts cannot resist their influence, which is all for the good.
Merkin doubts Bloom's claim that she was helpless: "One can discern, through the pious gloss Bloom puts on the events of her life, the shrewd maneuverings of a stage brat."