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  2. Crowds (adolescence) - Wikipedia

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    Across the high school years, crowd significance as a basis for affiliation wanes, [19] as does the influence of crowds on an individual's behavior. [1] In fact, some studies [20] indicate that the importance of crowds peaks at age 12 or 13. By the end of high school, adolescents often feel constrained by impersonal, crowd-derived identities. [21]

  3. Adolescent clique - Wikipedia

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    Crowd ranking can sometimes change but is generally quite stable across time and schools. [3]: p.162 Part of a clique's popularity status is based on the crowd with which its members associate, thus similarly popular cliques within the same crowd are more likely to move within the hierarchy than are similar crowds within the larger peer context.

  4. Fahrenheit 451 - Wikipedia

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    The first draft was 25,000 words long and was completed in nine days. [47] Urged by a publisher at Ballantine Books to double the length of his story to make a novel, Bradbury returned to the same typing room and made the story 25,000 words longer, again taking nine days. [46] The title "Fahrenheit 451" came to him on January 22.

  5. English plurals - Wikipedia

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    In other words, plural means not just "more than one" but also "less than one (except minus one)". This less-than aspect can be seen in cases like the temperature is zero degrees (not * zero degree [ a ] ) and 0.5 children per woman (not * 0.5 child per woman ).

  6. School closures could mean longer commutes for students. Here ...

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    But not all activities seemed to suffer when students had long journeys to and from school. Students who had commute times of 30 minutes or more reported spending more time studying than those ...

  7. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The achievement of, a generally positive feat, three times in a game, or another achievement based on the number three [6] Several: 3+ Three or more but not many. Small gross: 120 Ten dozen (10x12) [7] Great hundred: 120 Ten dozen (10x12) or six score (6x20), also known as long-hundred or twelfty [8] [9] None: 0 Zero Lakh: 100,000

  8. Vocabulary development - Wikipedia

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    By the age of eighteen months, children typically attain a vocabulary of 50 words in production, and between two and three times greater in comprehension. [5] [7] A switch from an early stage of slow vocabulary growth to a later stage of faster growth is referred to as the vocabulary spurt. [13] Young toddlers acquire one to three words per month.

  9. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Epizeuxis: repetition of a single word, with no other intervening words. Hendiadys: use of two nouns to express an idea when it normally would consist of an adjective and a noun. Hendiatris: use of three nouns to express one idea. Homeoteleuton: words with the same ending. Hypallage: a transferred epithet from a conventional choice of wording. [9]