Topics: Harley Davidson; Famous Americans: Jesse Jackson; because versus since, yikes, speaking of which Words: loyal logo engine reputation pejorative mid-life crisis reverend civil rights activist segregated march shadow senator because since yikes

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Topics: Saturday Night Live; Howard Stern and shock jocks; using to in who, what, where, when, why questions; state of the art; ways to say good job! Words: live cast celebrity sketch news anchor current events big break controversial shock jock offe

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Topics: Famous Americans: Annie Leibovitz; home shopping cable channels and celebrity product lines; come versus go; via versus through Words: portrait the arts big break to be named chief celebrity channel cable host product line affiliated with nam

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Topics: American Cities: San Francisco/Bay Area; the ACLU; using back to refer to the past; failure versus error versus mistake Words: image strait bay living expenses steep cable car liberal costume civil liberties litigation to lobby to infringe up

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Topics: Ask an American: childhood obesity; besides vs. furthermore vs. moreover; wink-wink; thrill Words: to be doing veggie grass-fed organic salad bar to line up to segue processed food refined high fructose corn syrup whole food with an eye in th

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Topics: Famous Americans: Amy Tan; Americans with Disabilities Act; to take convincing, full-fledged, dude Words: descent to fight to give (someone) the silent treatment promise life-changing event expectation act disability to enact discrimination a

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Topics: American Cities: Albuquerque; Survivor Reality TV Show; yet; differentiation versus distinction; so near and yet so far Words: desert to settle to occupy Old West outlaw folklore hot-air balloon reality television stranger shelter reward alli

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Topics: Prohibition; Famous Americans: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Im sorry versus I apologize; green thumb; elbow grease; to be screwed Words: Prohibition temperance to ban underground to bootleg moonshine speakeasy legal realism to defer to dissent

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By Al Pessin Munich 10 February 2008 The commander of NATO's military forces is disputing critics who say the alliance is losing in Afghanistan, but he said it is not winning fast enough, and he called for member nations to provide more troops. VOA's

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Topics: Movie: Bonnie and Clyde; Community Supported Agriculture (CSA); to cut (someone) loose versus to set (someone) free versus unrestrained; adjectives versus who phrases; words used to describe computer touch screens Words: to take liberties tab

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Topics: Stephen Foster and his songs; ish suffix; California casual; If it be your will Words: preeminent minstrel camptown to bet nonsense rendition posthumously dewdrop to lull dreary weary copyright California casual if it be (ones) will

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Topics: Famous Americans: Lucille Ball; The Great Depression; hermit versus loner versus introvert; other than versus rather than; Et tu, Brute? Words: to have no future as B-movie stardom rerun pioneering fondly look-alike depression crash to stimul

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Topics: Famous Americans - Ansel Adams; Ben Jerry's; to find out versus to figure out versus to seek; too constructions; dummy versus idiot Words: from that point on to develop portfolio inspiring gift shop yummy correspondence course ice cream parlo

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Topics: American Presidents - Herbert Hoover; knock-knock jokes; awful versus terrible versus terrific; initials in nicknames; that ship has sailed Words: starvation Great Depression to backfire tariff relief effort to memorialize dam lighthearted kn

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Topics: Ask an American - Historic court case on gender equal rights; incident versus accident; to throw good money after bad; adding shm- before another word Words: just to have faith in to right the wrong trial court appeals court Supreme Court per

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Topics: Movie - Apocalypse Now; getting your child into a private school, K-12; relating to versus related to; down with (the king); to qualify Words: apocalypse to be set in renegade to command mission horror napalm triumphant ambitious transcript p

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Topics: Famous Americans: Michael Jordan; the Quakers; tag questions; the derivation of okay; to learn versus to study Words: draft fan slam dunk to leap MVP to be inducted to endorse to be traced back to to persecute to swear to generalize worship o

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Topics: Ask an American: Online money management; dont worry versus dont bother; not only; to move/get past a feeling; pronouncing wool versus wall Words: to calculate to allocate to withdraw to accrue interest infographic personal finances to pay of

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Topics: American Authors: Toni Morrison; Homeboy/Homegirl Industries and Father Greg Boyle; screw versus bolt versus nut; to kidnap versus to abduct; to sharpen (ones) axe Words: African American experience to long social convention homeboy gang prie

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Topics: Famous Americans: T.S. Eliot; log and log in/log on; explanation versus interpretation; pronouncing consonant clusters Words: distinguished disillusionment New England to break from pedantic vulgar erudite to breed essay critic a product of (

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