What should be his first order of business once President-elect Obama takes office?

Cutting taxes/economic recovery.
Promoting peace in Israel/Gaza.
Ending the war in Iraq.
Creating jobs/dealing with unemployment.
Addressing climate change/environmental issues.

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pawn anything given as security, as for a debt, performance of an action, and so on; pledge; guaranty.

plackets pockets, especially in a woman's skirt or a petticoat.

plain to complain.

portable bearable; endurable.

pricks any of various pointed objects, as a thorn, goad, and so on.

proper fine; good; handsome.

propinquity nearness of relationship; kinship.

punder confusion; excitement.

quarrels a cause for dispute.

question communication; an asking; inquiry.

questrists seekers; pursuers.

rank growing vigorously and coarsely; overly luxuriant.

recreant failing to keep faith; disloyal; traitorous; apostate.

remotion 1 the act of removing. 2 inaccessibility.

rings the outer edge or border of something circular; rim, as of a wheel.

roundest outspoken; plain and blunt; straightforward.

ruffle to disturb, irritate, or annoy; to take away the smoothness of; wrinkle; ripple.


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