sophomore
Use Sophomore in a sentence
noun
1.
a student in the second year of high school or college.
2.
a person or group in the second year of any endeavor: He's a sophomore on Wall Street.
adjective
3.
of or pertaining to a sophomore.
4.
of or being a second effort or second version: Their sophomore album was even better than their first.
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Word Origin & History
sophomore
1688, "student in the second year of university study," lit. "arguer," altered from sophumer (1653, from sophume, archaic variant form of sophism), probably by influence of folk etymology derivation from Gk. sophos "wise" + moros "foolish, dull." Short form soph is attested
from 1778. Sophomoric "characteristic of a sophomore" (regarded as self-assured and opinionated but crude and immature) is attested from 1837.
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Example sentences
As a result students were having trouble making the transition from sophomore to junior year, and some were leaving school.
Even if you never remember the topic for your sophomore history paper, you will get better from the experience of writing it.
Glee's sophomore season started off strong with a snappy, fastpaced episode focused on reestablishing the status quo.
The behavioral experiments at the base of this work wouldn't, in principle, surprise a tyro in sophomore biology.
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