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  2. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Standard: I found a list of the sights of Rome on a tourist site. Standard: Please cite the sources you used in your essay. Standard: You must travel to the site of the dig to see the dinosaur bones. Standard: It is necessary to have line-of-sight if you want to use semaphore. Non-standard: One must be careful on a construction sight.

  3. List of words with the suffix -ology - Wikipedia

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    Parody classification of noses. The word entered into dictionaries as "study of the nose". necrology: A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died. A list of people who have died during a specific period. The study of death or the dead. A notice of death; an obituary. nematology: The scientific study ...

  4. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

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    "I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been." [24] — Virginia Woolf, English writer (28 March 1941), addressing her husband Leonard in her suicide note, drowning herself later that day "It's coming to an end for me, I'm sinking, I'm sinking!" [180] ("Es geht mit mir zu Ende, ich versinke, ich versinke!")

  5. Flat adverb - Wikipedia

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    The term includes words that naturally end in -ly in both forms, e.g. "drive friendly". Flat adverbs were once quite common but have been largely replaced by their -ly counterparts. In the 18th century, grammarians believed flat adverbs to be adjectives, and insisted that adverbs needed to end in -ly .

  6. Why are teens losing their minds about college applications ...

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    The college counselor at my high school told me that she’s seen kids not apply to certain universities after hearing that fellow classmates whom they considered to be better students were applying.

  7. Some words of advice for incoming college freshmen

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    School: Morgan State University Class: Senior Major: Multimedia Journalism. Dear Freshman, I’m sure you’ve heard plenty of advice about your first year of college, the typical “be on time to ...

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    The rituals of self-discipline were nothing new. He’d kept a journal since the 8th grade documenting his daily meals and workout routines. As a teenager, he’d woken up to the words of legendary coaches he’d copied from books and taped to his bedroom walls — John Wooden on preparation, Vince Lombardi on sacrifice and Dan Gable on goals.

  9. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    (n.) one (as a graduate or college student) temporarily employed for practical training, e.g. in the science, engineering, or technology fields; esp., in the medical field, a physician (rough UK equivalent: houseman) in their first year of postgraduate training (v.) to work as an intern international