Are speed reading classes a waste of time? Not if you want to skim instead of read. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Speed Reading Classes” Hello, you have A Way with Words. Hi, this is Tony Friedman from St. Louis...
Evan in Madison, Wisconsin, learned that peruse means to read closely and carefully but keeps hearing it used for a quick skim. The older sense was even stronger, meaning to use thoroughly, use up, or exhaust, and then later to pore over a text long...
sausage boom n.— «The absorbent pads and a double sausage boom skim what fuel oil contamination finds its way to the surface.» —“Cleanup OK may be near” by Bradford L. Miner Worcester Telegram &...