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sophomore

The origin and history of sophomore.

Etymology

From an older word sophum, "a display of clever but flawed argument," from Greek sophisma — likely blended in people's minds with Greek sophos ("wise") and moros ("foolish"), giving the word its odd "wise fool" flavour.

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