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: Ask an American: College Life in the US, all but, specialty vs. speciality, to cut someone off, Dont be a, moonshine, to cut someone off Words: class size roughly As a matter of fact vast majority ghetto arena military base student loans to p

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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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 rejection
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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: 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: 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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