Topics: Movies - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Mount Rushmore; threat versus menace versus peril; using should with have to; role reversal Words: loosely based on outlaw to flee sculpture to carve granite to draw to depict from the waist up to

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Topics: American Authors - Ernest Hemingway; the United Nations; you lost versus youre lost; expert in versus expert on versus expert at; geez Words: foreign correspondent to shape expat to toll pithy concise emasculation filth to emulate to commit s

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Topics: Famous Americans Ralph Nader; how to become an astronaut; with reference to versus with regard to versus according to; to confront versus to encounter; In God We Trust Words: critique to discredit traffic fatality inspiring social cause to lo

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Topics: Famous Americans - Magic Johnson; the role of ham radio operators in the U.S.; understanding versus knowledge versus acquaintance; below the waist and below the belt; earth to (someone) Words: drafted stats abruptly MVP safe sex commentator t

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Topics: Ask an American: Innovation; pain versus sorrow versus woe; manhood; to be over someone versus to be all over someone Words: show and tell to stumble across to trigger association unpredictable to kill creativity to undermine to stimulate aut

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Topics: American Presidents - Ulysses S. Grant; James Beard and the James Beard Foundation Awards; limit versus border versus confine; sound; life-affirming Words: particularly civilian to surrender Reconstruction amnesty to mar to annex destitute me

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Topics: Famous Americans - Thelonious Monk; the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps); pen name; tingling versus stabbing versus burning; gringo Words: giant self-taught to compose to get credit unorthodox record company nutritious

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Topics: The FBI; Readers Digest; consent versus assent, concord versus accord, the long and the short of it Words: federal domestic intelligence serial killer child predator Internet hacker conspiracy secretive digest to condense excerpt humor consen

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Topics: becoming a lawyer in the U.S., famous lines from American movies, proper versus appropriate Words: attorney state bar admission bar exam to hurt (someones) feelings to beg frankly black market to refuse to have class contender bum to be uncon

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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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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: 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: 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: 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: Ask an American: Bluegrass music; rsum versus curriculum vitae, the number 0 versus the letter O, one over the other Words: to bring over to pass down (something) to flatten bridge basically roots origins melody acoustic fiddle banjo bass rsu

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Topics: Classic childrens television: Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood; American Cities: Washington, D.C.; mix, combine, stir, and beat; stock photography Words: series episode animation puppet make-believe values founding fathers Congress f

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Topics: Ask an American: Getting Old; brethren versus brothers, would versus used to, I cant wait anymore versus I cant wait any longer Words: hip fracture balance to stub to go flying to fall flat incompetent nursing home to keep (something) to (one

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Topics: Famous Americans: Great Jazz Artists Josephine Baker and Ella Fitzgerald; the Amish; to be honest versus as a matter of fact; why dont you versus lets Words: jazz pearl world-famous to drop out civil rights movement first lady improv postage

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Topics: Ask an American: Tattoos to cover up (something), talk versus say versus speak, pronouncing certain consonants in the middle of words Words: buzz tattoo parlor tough guys broken heart to commemorate newborn angst to put (something) out there

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Topics: Ask an American: Drive-in Theaters to wind (someone) up, you dont say, how about you versus what about you Words: to wedge talkative to block (someones) view to be in the comfort of sprawling cranky to disrupt passion family fare second-rate

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