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  2. Cheating - Wikipedia

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    Academic cheating is a significantly common occurrence in high schools and colleges in the United States. Statistically, 64% of public high school students admit to serious test cheating. 58% say they have plagiarized. 95% of students admit to some form of cheating. This includes tests, examinations, copying homework, and papers.

  3. Euphemism - Wikipedia

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    Euphemism comes from the Greek word euphemia (εὐφημία) which refers to the use of 'words of good omen'; it is a compound of eû (εὖ), meaning 'good, well', and phḗmē (φήμη), meaning 'prophetic speech; rumour, talk'. [3] Eupheme is a reference to the female Greek spirit of words of praise and positivity, etc.

  4. Contract cheating - Wikipedia

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    Assessment design strategies may help to prevent contract cheating from occurring. [21] [30] [31] For example, individualized assessments have been shown to be effective against contract cheating. [32] In addition, some institutions have taken pro-active measures to block access to contract cheating companies websites from campus users. [33]

  5. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    It is in fact derived from Greek ἀδάμας, meaning indomitable. There was a further confusion about whether the substance referred to is diamond or lodestone. Buck: The use of "buck" to mean "dollar" did not originate from a practice of referring to African slaves as "bucks" (male deer) when trading. [52] "

  6. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    Figo may also mean someone really skilled in doing something. When referring to a woman, the term strafiga means "smoking hot". The derived term figata means something cool. A less common synonym, mainly used in Rome and Naples respectively, is fregna [46] and fessa. (even if fessa, m. fesso, can simply mean pussy, but also stupid girl)

  7. Minced oath - Wikipedia

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    A minced oath is a euphemistic expression formed by deliberately misspelling, mispronouncing, or replacing a part of a profane, blasphemous, or taboo word or phrase to reduce the original term's objectionable characteristics.

  8. Terminological inexactitude - Wikipedia

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    It is used as a euphemism or circumlocution meaning a lie, an untruth, or a substantially correct but technically inaccurate statement. Churchill first used the phrase following the 1906 election . Speaking in the House of Commons on 22 February 1906 as Under-Secretary of the Colonial Office , he had occasion to repeat what he had said during ...

  9. Recurring jokes in Private Eye - Wikipedia

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    The euphemism has variations: for example, before his marriage, a senior member of the Royal family allegedly went on holiday with an ex-Page Three girl, whereupon Private Eye reported he had contracted a "Ugandan virus" [citation needed]. If the 'Ugandan' encounter was not completely successful, the phrase "failed to reach Kampala" was used.