Topics: New movie by Spike Lee, Ice Age, how Americans buy groceries, Catch 22, can vs. to be able to, no longer, period vs. bottom line, freak on a leash Words: Inside Man Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee movie) bank heist bank teller to stick up a ban

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Topics: Illinois, checks and bills, periods and full stops, April Fools Day, just vs. only, to make up ones mind, in the eye of the beholder, behind vs. beyond, MIA, for vs. on my part, pronouncing sheep/ship, feet/fit Words: clip Lake Michigan Windy

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Topics: High school musicals, what a woman looks for in a man, to drive your point home, to call the shots, pilot TV shows, to be debt-ridden, to be in charge, on behalf of Words: drama hit musical crew backdrop theater set to dim scene cast fundrais

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Topics: Online dating, Pulitzer Prize winners, sitting duck, pronouncing cheap vs. chip and thank vs. tank, to cross your fingers Words: stigma matchmaker lucrative to fill out a survey skeptical to wink specialty speed dating to hurry to blink execu

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Topics: Earth Day, Dr. Seuss books, pronouncing sin, sing, hit, heat, and hate; about six oclock versus around six oclock; What I wouldnt give versus What I would give; I couldnt care less versus I could care less Words: to observe activist grassroot

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Topics: Airport X-ray machines, Guinness Book of World Records, to be under siege, to run like butter, girlfriends, to trade up Words: checkpoint to scan pat-down metal detector privacy strip search wand to go off reference books brewery to compile h

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Topics: In the News: pretexting, stay the course, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, if thats anything to go by, color vs. hue, contribute vs. attribute, the die is cast Words: pretextting stay the course to mock satire parody political pundit lo

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Topics: Current Movies: Stomp the Yard and Dreamgirls, vibe, sick vs. ill. vs. cold, to hold someones hand vs. to hold onto someone Words: to stomp to clap dance steps cohesion pride to open Motown vibe sick ill cold to hold (someones) hand to hold o

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Topics: Ask an American: Roswell, New Mexico; holiday versus vacation, arbitrator versus referee versus umpire, Ay, caramba! Words: aliens Army base to cover up to carry out UFO flying saucer hospitality top to endure conclusive holiday vacation arbi

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Topics: Ellis Island; The Rat Pack; lots of versus a lot of; sleep versus asleep, wake versus awake, rise versus arise; alpha male Words: immigration to undergo inspection unsanitary family tree pop culture desegregation impromptu to sell out to rule

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Topics: Ask an American: Sleep-deprived teenagers; to buy versus to purchase versus to acquire; to burn the candle at both ends; Lets versus shall we? versus why dont we? Words: out of it period to stay awake sleep-deprived cranky depression astonish

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Topics: Famous Americans - Jimi Hendrix; the melting pot metaphor; U.S. state numbers and nicknames; by any stretch of the imagination; to play it fast and loose Words: habit broom ukulele by ear gig stage presence virtuosic to smash suspicious circu

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Topics: The O.J. Simpson Trial; to major versus to graduate; to pry; technically versus practically Words: notoriety key suspect domestic violence to turn (oneself) in to surrender to plead not guilty dream team DNA to goad damning to acquit divided

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Ask an American The humanities; another versus the other; however versus conversely; to call it/them like/how (one) sees it/them Words: well funded fundamental to pertain domain humanities integrative urgent in the absence of partnership to tap into

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Topics: Ask an American: Working as an actor in Los Angeles,
 nevertheless versus despite versus even though, to screw up
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 craft
 rejection
 to get crushed headshot
 casting
 submissions
 studio eye contact to pre

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Topics: Norman Vincent Peale, Japanese internment camps, straightforward, to tap into, made by versus made of versus made in Words: Protestant denominations affiliation interplay technique affirmations civilian to betray ancestry to mitigate internme

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Topics: Advanced Placement courses and tests; Legos/Legoland and Hot Wheels; might versus maybe; judgment call; no-brainer Words: placement college-level subject area to gear up financial aid college credit interlocking kit theme park replicate track

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Topics: The CIA; how to become a court interpreter and/or an interpreter for the U.N.; haunting versus haunted; completion versus completeness; to take (somebody) on Words: intelligence foreign advisor clandestine to tap a phone to bug to infiltrate

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Topics: Spy trials of the 40s/50s - Alger Hiss Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; Johnny Appleseed; feeling versus emotion; expression versus term; drop dead Words: spy espionage trial to denounce perjury statute of limitations execution cause clbre orchard

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Topics: Ask an American: Libraries Using Ad Campaigns to Improve Image and Funding; making introductions; stack versus stock Words: to light up to click deficit geek mental synapse to get (ones) geek on billboard poster reaction hip to hit to introdu

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