Topics: Popular words in the US media, People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, to make a spectacle of yourself, to go berserk, basically, I'm whooped, doozy, fault vs. defect vs. error, David versus Goliath Words: global warming avian flu aight = all ri

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Topics: Country music, July 4th celebrations, clever vs. smart, you formal vs. informal, college vs. high school, to ride vs. to drive, Tell me about it!, to throw in the towel Words: rural banjo cowboy stereotype crop declaration fireworks display s

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Topics: John McCain, Little League sports, how to pronounce years and hours, using some plus a number, to hock, larger than life, to cheat on someone, I might say vs. I can say Words: navy liberal conservative term of office league World Series 1800s

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Topics: Daylight Saving Time, March Madness, to solve vs. to resolve, She smells good vs. She smells well Words: Daylight Saving Time March Madness to spring ahead to fall back collegiate office pool to be favored winning record Sweet 16 opponent sem

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Topics: Ask an American: Being a single woman in the US, obviously vs. apparently, sorrow, to delay vs. to postpone vs. to defer Words full gradual to be partnered with to decorate to be willing and able to entirely satisfactory equality mutual commo

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Topics: Trouble with my car, Ask an American: Home Schooling, breakthrough versus to break through, to ride shotgun Words: to stick (something) into (something) ignition to turn over jumper cables to home-school to be better off primary character to

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Topics: State and county fairs, Stan Lee and Spider- Man, Miss versus Mrs. versu Ms., to be in bloom, in order to Words: fair to display agriculture livestock blue ribbon rides Ferris whee l county to be held fairgrounds tractors comic book publishin

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Topics: Ask an American: Interpreters pronouncing years and punctuation marks, school leavers and drop outs Words: interpreter to bring in parent-teacher conferences work habits to follow directions needs progress to border on disservice support acad

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Topics: Fourth of July, Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, Schoolhouse Rock, will versus shall, to come off Words: preamble founders to be in effect to be on display to set (words) to music union justice domestic tranquility welfare liberty posterity

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Topics: American cities: Las Vegas, Google and privacy on the Internet, red tape, to catch lightening in a bottle, pronouncing ordinal numbers Words: privacy personal data to compile to protect to leak users harsh allegations legalized gambling casin

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Topics: American cities: Honolulu fantasy sports camps, to freeze a bra, coupon versus voucher, illicit versus illegal Words: monarchy to annex to overthrow territory palace harbor fantasy to coach all-star autograph bra slumber party coupon voucher

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Topics: In the News: The Nobel Effect, dangerous bicycle helmets; to talk someone out of something vs. to have it out with someone; Ill wait for you vs. Ill be waiting for you; mixture Words: Nobel Prize to stick around bragging rights to be buffeted

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Topics: How to ruin your computer, how much things cost in the US, secret vs. confidential vs. private, clich vs. touch Words: laptop to ruin versatile to spill fried to take something in (for repair) to salvage to back up model spies secret private

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Topics: Native rate of speech, to preach to the choir, common sense, though at the end of a sentence, possess vs. own, allow you to vs. allows you to, pronouncing twenty and ninety, picking a suitor, a make-out scene Words: native rate to preach to t

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Topics: American folklore: Bigfoot; Whos on First?, to tear apart, Cliff Notes, to fall out of love Words: UFO folklore Pacific Northwest hoax sighting creature comedy routine duo nickname play on words to tear apart (someone or something) Cliff Note

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Topics: Ask an American: Socially Responsible Companies case study, to be at sea, to knock (someones) socks off, to take ones time Words: bottom line impact sustainable shareholder stakeholder to inch up behind the scenes pension investors commonplac

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Topics: Route 66, playground games for children, on time versus in time, counting seconds using Mississippi, to knock yourself out Words: allergies a frog in your throat route interstate prosperous to get your kicks to celebrate to be it playground t

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Topics: Famous Authors: Edgar Allen Poe; womens colleges; business versus commerce versus trade; thank goodness; to be keen on Words: tale macabre to lament narrator knock raven nevermore descent into madness calculated model co-educational to questi

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Topics: Area 51 and Roswell; American Cities: Baltimore; that versus which; right away versus straightaway Words: conspiracy theory civilian tight-lipped UFO extraterrestrial to recover cultural center Midwest philanthropist refurbished black history

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Topics: Movies - The Maltese Falcon; Napa Valley, California and wine country; usage of bit; abuse versus assault; to put (someone) in the picture Words: falcon private detective unscrupulous antihero hardboiled fiction cynical femme fatale suspensef

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