Topics: Movies - King Kong; Famous Americans - Lance Armstrong; its sounds versus it sounds as if; acting versus pretending; gobbledygook Words: remake offering jungle shackles to gross cyclist triathlon consecutive testicular prognosis bracelet alle

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Topics: American Presidents - Ronald Reagan; using suffixes; to persuade versus to convince; to bring around/round Words: to come to fame welfare incumbent whopping assassination supply-side economics laissez-faire trickle-down economics dtente to de

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Topics: Movies Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Famous songs The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; to go on versus to keep on versus to move on; the suffix ship; to blow a raspberry Words: to guess interracial miscegenation head-on liberal to object to wr

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Topics: Leopold and Loeb Trial; Famous Songs: The Itsy Bitsy Spider; tunnel versus channel versus canal; right versus privilege; binge Words: perfect crime to lure chisel ransom capital punishment on parole toddler itsy bitsy spout gutter washed out

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Topics: American Presidents - Harry S. Truman; to handle versus to address versus to deal with versus to cope with; naysayer; hold that thought Words: to enlist leadership qualities haberdashery atomic bomb to surrender to flourish public approval ra

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Topics: Ask an American - Rural doctors; lets start versus lets get started; continuously versus continually; chaos Words: intention rural soul mate to be captured to train prospective lifelong interactive monitor lecturer slides continuously continu

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Topics: Movies - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; The MacArthur Fellows Program; important versus significant versus critical; tough; navel-gazing Words: extra-terrestrial alien to be stranded to lure psychic highest-grossing foundation genius merit no s

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Topics: Ask an American: Starving Artist; as a matter of fact, process versus procedure, to haggle Words: to make a living diversity stimulus hard to beat to make it to collaborate to interact gatekeepers density dynamism to cease to exist to push (s

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Topics: Celebrity chefs, Americans and personal space, generic versus general, expressing height in feet and meters, prophecy versus prediction Words: chef cookbook recipe to master column to spoof to kick it up a notch fusion anthropologist intimate

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Topics: Gallaudet University, U.S. call signs for radio and TV stations, outfit versus gear versus equipment, pronouncing law and low, so versus very Words: deaf hearing-impaired student body American Sign Language to appoint Board of Trustees facult

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Topics: Ask an American: Endangered languages; rednecks, dictionary versus thesaurus Words: domain to domesticate fragile to erode to disrupt to mend to embody landscape revitalization to enrich daunting reclamation apprentice to be without recourse

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Topics: New York Theater District/Broadway shows; Barbie dolls/G.I. Joe; I dont have versus I have no, in the street versus on the street, identifying yourself on the phone Words: district mainstream controversial cutting-edge lucrative figurine infa

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Topics: Types of vocational education in the U.S.; American Cities: Miami; to have a monkey on (ones) back; to administer; to execute; to be off Words: vocation apprenticeship trade home economics community college associate degree to look down upon

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Topics: The Betty Ford Center; poker; to be short on time versus time is running out, past year versus last year, supervisor versus manager Words: addiction rehab painkiller intervention residential counselor hand tournament champion endorsement to s

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Topics: Monster truck shows and races; blue jeans and Levi Strauss, to be up against the wall, liability versus responsibility, pronouncing either Words: monster pickup truck destructive to crush track obstacle freestyle to root blue jeans (or jeans)

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Topics: Native American reservations/Trail of Tears; retirement communities, the possessive s, to be subject to, to be subjected to, hedge trimming Words: ancestor settler reservation forced relocation trail tribe retirement Social Security benefits

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Topics: U.S. zoning laws; how to become a TV or movie screenwriter; unless versus if, in versus at for locations, persecute versus prosecute Words: zoning law urban sprawl mixed-use zoning high-density neighborhood exclusionary affordable housing str

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Topics: American Cities: Chicago; The Star-Spangled Banner; just versus only versus mere; to kick butt Words: windy magnificent skyscraper public transportation system gangster Prohibition league anthem dawn twilight patriotic mere to kick butt

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Topics: American Cities: Salt Lake City; university admissions; within versus inside versus interior; so much for; to want out Words: to persecute temple canyon to be home to admissions to get a feel for due rank top-tier school back-up school to enr

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Topics: Cook-offs and bake-offs; public health codes; a software evangelist; to look forward to; sandwich versus hamburger Words: to grill competition judge chili recipe to sample sponsor code sanitary inspection grade to revoke evangelist to look fo

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