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ELA

ELA

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A far-left group in Greece that used violence against the military government and capitalism from 1971 to 1995
  • proper noun
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  • Many activists of the ELA played a significant role in promoting anti-capitalist ideology in Greece.

But here's the best part, ELA shouting and fucking people up.

Examples

  • For this study, the English Language Arts (ELA) scores were examined as a measure of reading skills.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Most classroom teachers are aware that the ELA standards span from kindergarten through grade 12.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The concept is to examine complex young adult literature worthy of its place in ELA classrooms.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Along the questioning continuum in ELA is the interpretive question, which requires children to read between the lines.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Ms. Perez co-teaches ELA with a secondary English teacher, Ms. Hughes.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Specifically, in ELA and social studies, three levels of questions are commonly used: literal, interpretive, and evaluative.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Student data were collected by school staff and included ORF, CELDT, and CST-ELA-RC data.

    Academic text (2014)

  • After weighing pros and cons, we adopted the ELA and Mathematics CCSS.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The ELA was a prominent group that fought against the military junta in Greece during the 1970s.

  • During its operation from 1971 to 1995, the ELA actively opposed capitalism and imperialism.

Synonyms

Revolutionary People's Struggle
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A far-left Greek armed group formed in 1971 to oppose the military government and capitalism

includes an explicit anti-imperialist position

Surface Forms

ELA main

Morphology

ELA = E + L + A

This is an initialism/acronym composed of letters; the component letters do not convey the meaning to an average learner and so the word is not transparently compositional.

Etymology

The word ELA comes from the first letters of three Greek words, Epanastatikos, Laikos and Agonas, which mean 'revolutionary', 'people's' and 'struggle'. So the name ELA literally says 'people's revolutionary struggle', which explains why the group used it as their name when they fought the military government.