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 n.β€”Gloss: a student in the second year of high school without enough credits to take sophomore classes. Β«β€œWe’re really focusing harder now on the freshmen and sophomores so they don’t turn into what’s called ’freshmores,'” he said, referring to students in their second year of high school without enough credits to take a sophomore curriculum.Β» β€”β€œTexas has 185 high schools labeled β€˜dropout factories’” by Gary Scharrer, Jenny LaCoste Caputo in Austin Express-News (Texas) Oct. 30, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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