Purple flowers

What transitive verb takes "universe" as its object?

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March 28th 2010
Because my textbook doesn't have a lot of visual appeal to offer, I'm only going to add one thematically relevant picture to this post. Enjoy the pretty, irrelevant Kunming flowers. The title for the post comes from an exercise we had as homework to practice some new vocabulary. This particular exercise is "collocation": you're given a list of vocabulary words, and instructed to add a noun, o ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more