sophomore

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The Virginia Area sophomore will be there tonight when he takes on Simley sophomore Dan Dick at 8 p.m. in the opening round at 125 pounds at the Xcel Energy Center.

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  1. noun A second-year student in a U.S. college.
  2. noun A tenth-grade student in a U.S. high school.
  3. noun A person in the second year of carrying out an endeavor.
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  • After posting two top-10 finishes as a sophomore, then sitting out her junior year with a slipped disk in her back, Looker said she had doubts about her comeback chances, especially after her first week back in the pool left her so sore she "couldn't move every time I got out of the water."
  • I live in Village C East, and as if living there as a sophomore isn't bad enough, I can't enter or exit the building without being buffeted by clouds of cigarette smoke.
  • The Virginia Area sophomore will be there tonight when he takes on Simley sophomore Dan Dick at 8 p.m. in the opening round at 125 pounds at the Xcel Energy Center. —  Mesabi Daily News
  • High School star has new goals as a sophomore-to-be at Tennessee:
  • As a sophomore, her picture of a horse standing next to a fence earned her a similar amount, she said. —  The Facts: News
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  1. Alteration (probably influenced by Greek sophos, wise, and mōros, stupid) of sophumer, from obsolete sophom, sophism, dialectic exercise, variant of sophism.

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  1. Formerly sophimore, the altered form sophomore being made to simulate a formation from Greek σοφός, wise, + μωρός, silly, foolish, as if in allusion to the exaggerated opinion which students at this age are apt to have of their wisdom; not found in early use (being a technical term not likely to occur often outside of university records), but prob. orig. *sophimor, *sophimour, from Old French as if *sophismour, *sophismeor, from Middle Latin as if *sophismator, literally ‘one who makes arguments or uses sophisms,’ from sophismare (later Italian sofismare = Portuguese sophismare), with equivalent sophismaticare, use sophisms, from Latin sophisma, a captious argument, a sophism: see sophism. Sophomore, sophimore, prop, *sophimor, is thus literally ‘sophismer,’ as if directly from sophime (Middle English form of sophism) + -or. It is practically equivalent to sophister, both apparently meaning in their orig. university use ‘arguer’ or ‘debater.’ Cf. wrangler in its university use.
 

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