Vocabulary Learning - English Daily

In John McCain Memorial Service

Recently John McCain, an American senator past away. In his memorial service two past president Barak Obama and George W. Bush published their eulogy ( a formal speech that praises a person who has died). Though explicitly not mentioned about President Trump, the senator daughter finds rebuke (reprimand, or scold) in his activity.

In absence of Mr. Trump, both political leaders come to dis farewell to John Sidney McCain, who was son and grandson of admirals, naval aviator, tortured prisoner, congressman, six-term senator, two-time presidential candidate, patriot, maverick (someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action), reformer, warrior, curmudgeon (a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas), father, husband and finally, in death, American icon.

verve (an energetic style)

retribution (an act of taking revenge)