Calling Dr. Google
The Woman of the Year
The Song of the Tracks
Ski racing - The line
A Tale of Four Cities
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Feeling poorly? No time to visit the GP? More young women than ever are logging on to check themselves out. But beware: online diagnoses can SERIOUS damage your health.

seriously

100

The nomination process involves a council with women from all over the country who put out the message, connect to local women’s organisations, and scan local newspapers for INSPIRE stories.

inspiring / inspirational

100

Thanks to the huge popularity of these uncomfortable trains, cars are OCCASION spotted, occupied by small groups of backpacking tourists  and locals on their way home from town.

occasionally

100

Lindsey Vonn, a professional ski racer, has REPEAT crossed this line throughout her illustrious ski racing career.

repeatedly

100

Today this beautiful city is a highlight of the Maple Leaf Trail. The trail links Quebec City in the north with Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, a DISTANT of around 500 miles.

distance


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Thanks to an EXPLODE of online resources, it’s easier than ever to find information. An online self-diagnosis can quickly become a serious over-diagnosis.

explosion

200

Some of the guests are GLAMOUR and on the television every night, and some work quietly to hold their communities together by starting a soup kitchen. Some have made extraordinary contributions to the movement for the rights of the ABLE; some have fostered more children than you can count. 

glamorous / glamourous

disabled

200

The railway was built towards the end of the nineteenth century, in an attempt by the French government in Paris to further TIGHT its grip on the freedom-loving Corsicans.

tighten

200

“I’m a little bit reckless. I like to do things fast. I drive a car too fast. I jet ski too fast. It’s really rare that I’m afraid to do something. I’m pretty FEAR all around,” Vonn said.

fearless

200

The cities are completely different. Toronto is a VIBRANCY, modern city with more than seven miles of underground tunnels linking shops, offices and car parks.

vibrant

300

Dr Google is ready to solve their MEDICINE mysteries and provide advice on TREAT. 

medical / medicinal

treatment / treatments

300

Women of the Year is an EXTEND of that fight, keeping women and their ACHIEVE on the agenda, and showing what they can do if they put their minds to it.

extension

achievements

300

The dialect and the words are Corsican, but the feeling is UNIVERSE. U Trinighellu means The Shaker, and that’s what this CONVENIENCE, narrow railway train does: it shakes the passengers during the whole, slow trip of 85 miles between Corsica’s largest cities, Bastia and Ajaccio.

universal

inconvenient

300

Vonn will GO a surgical operation shortly so that she has SUFFICE time to focus on the World Cup season.

undergo

sufficient

300

Montreal has its EXTENSION subterranean side – a staggering 20 miles of underground corridors. Visit in summer, though, to enjoy the GRASS hill of the Plateau Mont-Royal, home to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the striking 1976 Olympic Park Stadium.

extensive

grassy / grassed

400

Going online sounds like the perfect SOLVE for busy young women. No more taking time off work or waiting days for an APPOINT.

solution

appointment

400

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC is one of the foremost human rights lawyers and the President of the Women of the Year Lunch and Awards. In her career, she’s fought to make the LEGALIZE system more of the realities of women’s lives. The law now has changed SIGNIFICANT but women have still got a long way to go.

legal

significantly

400

Even though travelling by car is the best way to visit Mediterranean island’s most BEAUTY spots and bays, an adventurous ride on The Shaker is a perfect INTRODUCE to the mentality of pleasantly COURAGE Corsicans.

beautiful

introduction

courageous

400

Ten days before Vonn was scheduled to COMPETITION for the first time since her last injury, she crashed in training in November but was not admitted to hospital. Since her SURGEON in February 2013, Vonn’s RECOVER has been quicker than predicted, but re-injuring the same knee caused her to miss some competitions.

compete

surgery

recovery

400

Head north and a COMFORT morning’s drive brings you to Ottawa, the Canadian capital. Canada is officially a LINGUAL country, but you don’t really notice it until you get to Montreal, the world’s second largest French-speaking city after Paris. LINGUISTICS will notice marked differences in accent and vocabulary from Parisian French!

comfortable

bilingual / multilingual

linguists

500

There’s no grading of websites to give PREFER to those offering SENSE, unbiased advice, with the shocking pages most LIKE to grab our attention. More worrying still are the remedies AVAIL on the internet to treat self-diagnosed problems.

preference

sensible

likely

available

500

The AMAZE thing about the lunch is that it brings together such an CREDIBLE cross-section of women, recognising the exceptional in all forms – whether it’s high-achievers succeeding in a very male world, or those who might call themselves ordinary women, who by their COMMIT to their community make a huge difference to the lives of the others.

amazing

incredible

commitment / commitments

500

By linking the two STRATEGY most important cities (situated on the northern and western coasts) they gained ACCESSIBLE to Corsica’s first sovereign capital, Corte – otherwise hard to CAPTIVE, situated as it is in the heart of the interior.

strategically

access

capture

500

In January 2014, Lindsey Vonn announced that she would not participate in the upcoming Sochi Olympics. Vonn, who had staged a COME in December with an IMPRESSION fifth place finish in the opening Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super G in Lake Louise, felt that a subsequent racing injury in France from December made it POSSIBLE to stabilize her knee and be ready to safely ski again next month.

comeback

impressive

impossible

500

Then it’s on to Quebec City, founded in 1608 by French cartographer and EXPLORATION Samuel de Champlain. With its quaint streets and historical buildings, the IMPRESSION atmosphere is different here yet again. Browse the craft shops at the foot of the cliffs, visit the fort, and imagine this MIGHT frozen solid place in winter

explorer

impressive

mighty / mightily