http://www.ted.com/talks/dee_boersma_pay_attention_to_penguins.html

VOCABULARY:

·         Diligent-adj. Marked by persevering, painstaking effort. See Synonyms at busy.

He made diligent and painstaking inquiries.

She must be diligent about how she used it.

·         Bray-v. To utter the loud, harsh cry of a donkey.

Tom and Rick made braying sounds in protest.

She had giggled like a donkey braying.

·         Nutrient-n. A source of nourishment, especially a nourishing ingredient in a food.

My body seems to immediately revive from the nutrients.

Come with me, and you can add whatever nutrients and restoratives you feel are required to the soup I'm getting Killashandra.

·         Plight- n. A situation, especially a bad or unfortunate one. See Synonyms at predicament.

“Since our common plight is precisely to live in such uncertainty, what's wrong with this?”

·         Ballast- n. Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship or the gondola of a balloon to enhance stability.

We'll drop all remaining ballast and climb through that layer as fast as we can.

Too much ballast, Joe always said, slows you down.

·         Fledgling-n. A young bird that has recently acquired its flight feathers.

We all must have our freedoms, fledgling.

Then her gaze moved away from the fledgling, almost disdainfully.

·         Latitude-n. The angular distance north or south of the earth's equator, measured in degrees along a meridian, as on a map or globe.

That means in winter the icecup grows down to 45 degrees latitude The third was the HydrOs, from the temperate latitude, Heem's own ship trailing.