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freshman

noun as in first-year student

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There’s really no reason to call a freshman senator who had just been sworn in weeks earlier and has no real legislative heft if your intent is to talk about the riot.

Let’s say a child of mine goes off to college, they’re a freshman, and I want to know how they’re doing, like really how they’re doing — emotionally, academically, socially.

A freshman representative with little apparent appetite for policy or coalition-building, Greene wasn’t likely to wield much legislative power in the House.

Mendelsohn is a classics professor at Bard College in New York, and when the book opens, his 81-year-old dad, Jay, has just decided to audit his freshman course on The Odyssey.

In the statement on Greene, first reported by the Hill, McConnell did not mention the freshman lawmaker by name but listed a series of actions that describe her pattern of inflammatory behavior.

But the show is inoffensively good, which is high praise in a pretty terrible year for freshman TV series.

“There was a lot of stuff that I had never really thought about before,” freshman Thomas Long said.

More than 40 percent of incoming freshman said that a campus visit and social activities affected their choice.

Despite performing in a respectable amount of sketches for a SNL freshman throughout the season, her contract was not renewed.

“Ted Cruz, Team Player” is a twist few saw coming from the freshman who has made too many enemies to count in Washington.

The folks that know it all are the squabs, chuckled Bobby, referring to the freshman class.

When I was a freshman, there entered a woman over fifty, with perfectly white hair.

It was, perhaps, the sympathy in her tone that urged the instructor to confide her trouble to a strange girl—a freshman, at that!

The other Briarwood girls were the only members of the freshman class Ruth was likely to be intimate with for some days.

But for a freshman to show sufficient athletic training to make any of the first teams, would almost seem impossible.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to freshman, such as: novice, rookie, undergraduate, beginner, greenhorn, and underclassman.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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