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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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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Topics: American Presidents: Bill Clinton; Louisiana Voodoo; articulation versus enunciation versus pronunciation; to start versus commence; I believe you versus I believe in you Words: governor fiscal responsibility to mar affair to impeach to lie u

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Topics: Ask an American: Health effects of city living; how do you say versus what do you call; rsum Words: to play out urban well-being poverty incidence bottom line in-house depressed substance abuse return on investment bike lane to think outside

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Topics: Famous Authors: Herman Melville; the Ku Klux Klan; to locate versus to position versus to localize; to keep on your toes; to roll with the punches; to suffer from versus to die of/from Words: whaling ship revival to seek revenge canon terrori

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Topics: Movie - West Side Story; Uncle Sam; ship and other suffixes; grab a spoon/fork; to take the big game down Words: to thwart gang rival poignant musical catchy to depict goatee chin to recruit counterpart stout grab a spoon/fork to take the big

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Topics: Famous Americans: Al Capone; The U.S. Military Academy at West Point; to crash versus to shatter versus to smash; how about you? versus what about you?; bite me Words: odd job gang mentor scar to bribe to culminate massacre to lock (someone)

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Topics: Famous Americans: Jesse Owens; National Science Foundation; plea versus appeal versus petition; somewhat versus somehow; Is that all? Words: track and field Jim Crow law segregation obstacle world record to boycott autograph ticker-tape parad

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Topics: Appalachia; family arrangements in the U.S.; pain, ache, and sore; diehard; fruitcake Words: folk music coal mine isolated poverty hillbilly family arrangement nuclear family extended family generation empty-nester DINK label pain ache sore d

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Topics: The Innocence Project; Craigslist; percent versus percentage; the in crowd/place; to swear in Words: innocence criminal convicted to exonerate DNA testing evidence classified ad personals carpool resource to swear by in to swear in

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