¹     "Grandpa," said Ken, "I have a problem."
 
²     "A problem, eh? Perhaps I can help," said Grandpa. He put down the newspaper he was reading.
 
³     "It is about a big word," said Ken slowly. "I think it is rev- revolution. What does it mean?"
 
⁴     "Wow," said Grandpa. "That is a five dollar word."
 
⁵     "But what does it mean?" asked Ken a second time.
 
⁶     A revolution is like a war," said Grandpa. "It is when some people in a country want to change who runs it. A few people will try to make a new government without an election. Why do you want to know?"
 
⁷     "I heard a man talking on TV. He was talking about New Year's Revolutions," said Ken.
 
⁸     Grandpa raised the newspaper again. He could not stifle his laughs very well. His hands and body shook with quiet laughter. It made the paper rattle.
 
⁹     Ken pulled the paper aside to talk to his grandfather. "Why are you laughing, Grandpa?" he asked. "Did I say something funny?"
 
¹⁰     Grandpa nodded with a smile. "You misheard the word," he said at last. "It was not a New Year's Revolution. It's a New Year's Resolution."
 
¹¹     "They sound almost the same to me," said Ken.
 
¹²     "They do sound almost the same," said Grandpa. "They have very different meanings, though." Grandpa folded up the newspaper. Then he placed it in a rack next to his chair.
 
¹³     "The main part of the word resolution means to resolve. That is, to make up your mind," said Grandpa.

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