Topics: Types of vocational education in the U.S.; American Cities: Miami; to have a monkey on (ones) back; to administer; to execute; to be off Words: vocation apprenticeship trade home economics community college associate degree to look down upon

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Topics: American Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald; cigarette and alcohol advertising; pronouncing -ed, someones John Hancock Words: to regard (someone or something) as (something) to break off to resume Jazz Age Prohibition lavish to bootleg to degrade pr

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Topics: dishonest political strategies; the Black Dahlia; treatment versus therapy; ending intimate letters and emails; youre entitled to your opinion Words: primaries platform push poll misleading illegitimate attack ad print smear campaign mud slin

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Topics: New York Theater District/Broadway shows; Barbie dolls/G.I. Joe; I dont have versus I have no, in the street versus on the street, identifying yourself on the phone Words: district mainstream controversial cutting-edge lucrative figurine infa

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Topics: Ask an American: Endangered languages; rednecks, dictionary versus thesaurus Words: domain to domesticate fragile to erode to disrupt to mend to embody landscape revitalization to enrich daunting reclamation apprentice to be without recourse

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Topics: Convenience stores, eating and drinking noises, colleague versus associate versus fellow, to sign in versus to sign off versus to sign on versus to sign up Words: slushees bulletproof glass armed robbery taboo to chomp to crunch to smack to w

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Topics: Men and dumb blondes, the Rotary Club, grade versus score, how do I get to versus where do I find, my friend versus a friend of mine Words: headline in the presence of to fall to mimic stereotype to perpetuate service clubs humanitarian to ro

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Topics: Cities: Anchorage, Alaska; John Henry; you might as well, to hit the ground running, the caf in English Caf, what goes around comes around, breaking news Words: folk hero spikes railroad tracks hammer working class to displace to chop down ax

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Topics: Ask an American: Business travel in the U.S.; bang for your buck, original versus initial, the longest word in English Words: remote awesome to work out cool a major pain slippers to tuck/untuck to beep trail to keep (something) to a minimum

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Topics: Ask an American: Business travel in the U.S.; bang for your buck, original versus initial, the longest word in English Words: remote awesome to work out cool a major pain slippers to tuck/untuck to beep trail to keep (something) to a minimum

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Topics: Professional wrestling, National Geographic, would-be versus wannabe, be my guest, why not? Words: to wrestle stage name match ring referee to pin (someones) shoulders mat tag team battle royal to diffuse not-for-profit/nonprofit circulation

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Topics: Cities: Boston; vanity license plates, to make a difference versus to make the difference, lame, devils advocate Words: New England founded massacre East/West Coast accent ancestor license plate vanity to register (a car) motto to make a diff

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Topics: Gallaudet University, U.S. call signs for radio and TV stations, outfit versus gear versus equipment, pronouncing law and low, so versus very Words: deaf hearing-impaired student body American Sign Language to appoint Board of Trustees facult

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Topics: Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, progress versus process, would in the past tense, to be on the chunky side Words: fairy baby tooth theres no such thing bunny basket hunt egg shell palm thumbs up air quotes to give (someone) the finger to flip (som

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Topics: Charles Schultz and Peanuts, how to become a police officer, you and I versus you and me, yippikaiye, to call dibs Words: comic strip to syndicate high school yearbook withdrawn at its peak barber hairdresser inferiority complex criminal just

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Topics: Cities: New Orleans 9-1-1 emergency services, his or her, you dont need to know versus you need not know, incident versus accident Words: port to settle to found Cajun predominately to flood to rebound quarter mansion Mardi Gras Lent crawfish

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Topics: Celebrity chefs, Americans and personal space, generic versus general, expressing height in feet and meters, prophecy versus prediction Words: chef cookbook recipe to master column to spoof to kick it up a notch fusion anthropologist intimate

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Topics: Famous Americans: Grandma Moses; GED Tests, since versus from, is to do (something), calligraphy versus penmanship Words: rural folk sporadic postcards to pick apples nave primitive Moses equivalency dropout home schooling is to do (something

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Topics: Ask an American: Starving Artist; as a matter of fact, process versus procedure, to haggle Words: to make a living diversity stimulus hard to beat to make it to collaborate to interact gatekeepers density dynamism to cease to exist to push (s

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Topics: American cities: Portland, Oregon; Take Me Out to the Ballgame; ocean versus sea, ability versus capability Words: metropolitan area confluence to kayak to hike to snowshoe environmentally conscious anthem seventh-inning stretch to root strik

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