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...bring notes from high school classes. Language vocab and a few math formulas are really the only things you will ever use while you're here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain Gear a Must, but Lose the SAT Scores | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

When asked why women don't do as well onvocabulary as men do, even though they have hadbetter preparation in languages, Busby replied:"Women do not do as well on vocabulary because menhave been exposed to more vocabulary words in theother classes. The vocab section takes vocabularyfrom all different types of curriculum...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Local Group Claims Tests Are Biased | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...Reality Bites" target audience. Like so many to those who surround me, I am young, bright and disenchanted without really knowing with what or why. I can't watch "Oprah" or "House of Style" without making cynical comments: wisecracks culled form my vastly broad, yet miserably shallow vocab...

Author: By Alexandra Jacobs, | Title: Taking a Bite Out of Hollywood | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...from the Midwest and all I've heard people talk about the past few days is "tailgating" before the home football games. Now I thought I knew my football, but what does this "tailgating" mean? Vexed Vocab...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mail Chauvinism | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

...conjures up such titles as Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball 1 earn in the Shower Room and Happy Birthday to You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet), and when he talks about his work he makes it desperately clear that he is working beyond the reach of his vocab-ary. People may smile when he sits town to play, but the trouble with his misic is less the fault of the composer than the carpenter: imperfections in his instruments slur the microtonic scheming-and all his years spent with little ore than Chinese proverbs to comfort him are lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Harry Isn't Kidding | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

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